Looks like you've got competition , Tiger
Posted on 02/19/2006 2:38:22 PM PST by Cagey
WASHINGTON (AP) - A man who claimed to have a cellphone implanted in his head was convicted Friday of jumping a White House fence in a bid to meet former president Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea.
Shawn Cox, 29, of Mammoth Spring, Ark., was sentenced to 150 days in jail but a District of Columbia Superior Court judge suspended the sentence - with the stipulation Cox stay at least one block away from the executive mansion. He also was fined $50.
Cox was arrested Dec. 4 after he scaled the spiked wrought-iron fence on the northern side of the White House. The incident occurred after he had three separate encounters with uniformed Secret Service officers on bicycle patrol. He told them he planned to meet former president Clinton's daughter at a church near the White House.
"He was very upset that we were not taking him seriously," Officer Kimberly Wojcik testified during a non-jury trial.
Wojcik said she and other officers repeatedly told Cox Clinton no longer lived in the White House.
"If you do not have an appointment, you cannot get into the White House," said Officer James Livingston, who told the court he first saw a shoeless Cox near the White House on Dec. 2.
In rambling testimony under questioning from his court-appointed lawyer, Cox said: "They put a cell phone in my head."
He went on to tell the court: "George Bush told me to jump the fence and I jumped the fence."
He later said the Secret Service officers told him to jump.
Judge John Bayly rejected a prosecution request for a stay-away order covering the Capitol and Senate office buildings. Assistant U.S. attorney Alexander Dahl said Cox tried to contact Chelsea Clinton through U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton's staff.
Cox had a psychiatric evaluation before being deemed competent to stand trial.
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Oh, if we could only make that happen!
Did anyone check?
Yeah, but the guy is so clearly bonkers that he really shouldn't have been charged at all. Committed, yes; but his being charged is just the Secret Service making its point at a sick person's expense.
Think of the roaming charges. The Poser Posse will be all over him.
Is he logged on?
If the cell phone in the head story was not enough to doubt his sanity, this should have been the tip off.
I'd rather meet Bush's daughter Barbara. Rowr!
put me on the list lol
See, it's Bush's fault again!
Where the heck was Cheney??????
Can you be ticketed for answering the cell phone in your head while driving?
Just asking.
Might want to amend his statement so he can say Cheney made him do it. Then the media would be clamoring for interviews and offering free trips to the Today Show.
Cheney could have shot that cell phone off his head at 50 yards with a 12 gauge.
Actually, that's not accurate. It's pretty hard to be ruled incompetent-- you have to basically not be able to understand who the judge is or what your attorney's function is.
And "getting off on insanity" is also more difficult than it is made out to be.
The judge is even wackier than Shawn Cox. He rejected a stay-away order when the guy is clearly a nut case.
BTTT!!
Looks like you've got competition , Tiger
That George bush,he's such a prankster.I suppose he told the guy Chelsea was in heat and loved to do it with strangers on the white house lawn too.
Guy must be a Verizonist.
George and Cheney were on the lawn at the time this happened. George had just given cheney the shotgun and yelled PULL when he gave the order for the man to leap the fence...... ;)
Now that we can do things like cochlear implants what is to prevent us from implanting something in someone and feeding the output to an implant instead of a speaker ?
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