Man questioned for acting strangely around the vice president

Nicole Frey
June 16, 2006


BEAVER CREEK – A man was arrested by Secret Service agents when he tried to approach Vice President Dick Cheney in Beaver Creek Village Friday afternoon, said Secret Service spokesman Eric Zahren.

Cheney was walking outside when the agents charged with protecting him noticed the man who “wasn’t acting like the other folks in the area,” Zahren said.

“His behavior and demeanor wasn’t quite right,” Zahren said. “The agents tried to question him, and he was argumentative and combative”

While the man was released later in the evening, officials are reviewing possible federal charges.


http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20060616/NEWS/60616011

What will they charge him with, "This one was different than the others" ?

Just hoping....

:rofl:

excellent!!!

something of the sort????

if Cheney was going to try to shoot him.

http://www.scoop.co.nz.nyud.net:8090/stories/images/0210/934c097602e9078a202a.jpeg

How long will he be in for?

he asked WHY he was being accosted.

they arrested his reflection...

It might be more useful if reporters actually attempted to provide information - such as what - precisely - is "acting differently"? And did his behaviour threaten Cheney in any way? What is acting "different" than others - scowling instead of cheering? Cheering instead of scowling? Perhaps in a follow up you can actually report the story? By which I mean reporting FACTS not just adjectives?
thanks -

thereby ridiculing bush, cheney, and the SS.

And force especially the SS to have second thoughts about their methods.

double meep

'wasn't acting like the other' ??? only in BushAmerika is such a thing a CRIME. what an orwellian horror.

...just whom or what does this shitweasel Cheney think he is???? A Man-God like a Roman Emperor???Argumentative and COMBATIVE-this is a bald faced LIE-if this guy had EVER raised anything other than his voice within a country mile of Buttmunches security detail he would currently reside in a federal holding facility facing charges of assaulting a Federal officer....these people have passed thru and far past the valley of paranoia and have entered the land of bat shit schizophrenic persecutional crazyness. I hope they never come near me 'cause I act different too...I miss the 50's,we all looked alike and acted different-now we all look different but failure to "act alike" is a federal crime...These clowns may eat my oldest shorts...

Never heard that one before. That's sweet!

saw it on the site elsewhere today and stole it....and I didn't even have the common courtesy to mark down the original posters name.....but I'm hoping he'll see my theft and come here and call me something else real original.....

Watsa matta Dick, afraid of an angry civilian are we?

25 million people who don't act like the other folks would descend upon Beaver Creek Village and make Cheney a prisoner in his own compound. :shrug:

isn't quite right?

For all we know the guy has lived there all his life and maybe that is his behavior and demeanor and the residents know his quirkiness as normal.

Maybe dude was just afraid of getting his face shot off.

loathed,you gotta watch your back.
Disgusting.

looks like a lot of cheney's friends. but younger.

Didn't bow down to Cheney. :eyes:

or he wasn't nodding in agreement to all the talking points.

Secret Service agents are trained to spot certain things. The clearly thought something was odd enough to detain him. That doesn't mean ANYTHING is wrong with what they did. He has even been released, even though they don't even know where he truly lives. Frankly, THAT surprised me.

Some kook is NOT our friend just because he was arrested by the Secret Service. We shouldn't let our dislike/hatred/whatever for Cheney blind us into thinking there is anything with this story other than as reported by the Vail, CO newspaper. To make a big deal out of this (and even talk about it like there's something WRONG with the Secret Service doing their job!) only serves the other side.

Sometimes I think there are people here to make extremist statements and wild allegations (without a scintilla of evidence) only to make this site look ridiculous and unreasonable.

good lord.

He was released w/o charge and still you're wringing your hands over the appearences of it all.
I mean he wasn't acting like the others. :O
Shame on us for being suspicious that this guy may have been harmless after all.
But thanks for your concern

during a Presidential visit to Africa in the 90s. I have nothing but the utmost respect for anyone willing to take a bullet for ANY Secret Service protectee. These absolutely professional men and women don't have the luxury of taking any thing lightly or of letting their guard down at any time. They are career personnel without a political agenda, not Schedule C or higher political flaks. Are they perfect - last time I looked they were human so errors are bound to be made. I want those errors to be made on the side of security for all those the service protects.

Their "clients" include the Fords, the Carters, Mrs. Reagan, the Bushes (41) and the Clintons as well as current officials.

You want to push a test case? Fine, go find a courtroom rather than argue it out with an agent in the field. I don't want them distracted by any assholes pushing an agenda whan the result can be overlooking a threat that is not as vocal/visible.

I'm a woman who wears my old Army Airborne "Jump Boots" to weed the flower garden. If we extrapolate to Herr Policia, I should look forward to my local Sheriff arresting me soon ... for :wtf: acting a little DIFFERENT?!? :P

Attack Liberals X
Attack Intellectuals X
Attack Individuality X

Attack YOU? :shrug:

holding back an eruption of bile. For this he is arrested. Welcome to the shrub''s United States of America!

The paper Vail Daily can no longer be accessed online. I guess this story was too new and is not in Google's cache. The reporter, the newspaper and some of their old stories are still in Google's cache.

Someone took down the site.

http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20060616/NEWS/60616011/0/FRONTPAGE

Perhaps just a hiccup, perhaps.

There's a video game recently out (Hitman: Blood Money) where the final mission requires you to assassinate the US Vice President. Cheney probably heard about it and got paranoid. ;)

If they're on the lookout for people "acting strangely," what do they do about Cheney himself? He acts strangely ALL the time, around EVERYBODY.

I wish the story had included more details...this is way too vague. Did he act strangely like a lunatic out of an asylum? (In which case the Service was absolutely right to question him). Did he not cheer, bow, make obeisance like the rest of the crowd? Or stand at respectful attention? We don't know the answers from this story.

Those around Cheney are probably already used to it.