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I'm Just Clambering Up A Fence/ You Can Say I Got No Sense
Remember the nutjob who scaled the White House fence last year, right before the elections? Kansas City's The Pitch catches up with him - he's a disgruntled would-be Ron Kovic named Alexis Janicki.
Two days earlier, Janicki and his wife, Jamie, had arrived in Washington, D.C., to visit Janicki's mother. Janicki announced he didn't feel well, but they went on with their plan to visit a conference on green energy. The crowds on the subway made things worse. When they reached the expo, Janicki snapped. After Iraq, crowds often have that effect. He took off without a word, dashing roughly 10 blocks toward the White House.
Now, as Janicki approaches the fountain, three Secret Service agents blitz toward him. Their guns are drawn. One man holds the leash on a German shepherd. Tall and lithe, Janicki swings wide around the fountain, keeping it between him and the men.
Past the fountain, Janicki darts at full speed. He's just 10 yards from the White House doors when the agents intercept him and raise their weapons.
Janicki pulls up. He raises his hands. "Stop!" he screams. "All right, you got me." Janicki chuckles, then cheers, "Whoo-hooo!"
Takeways from the article: 1) Janicki's life has been surprisingly un-ruined by his White House blitz, possibly because the POTUS was out of town. 2) Even after he blitzed the White House no one is paying much attention to his boiling-over angry psyche.
Here's a companion piece:
Almost one-third of returning veterans who received health care at Veterans Affairs facilities between 2001 and 2005 were given a mental health or psychosocial diagnosis, according to a report in the March 12 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Some reports have suggested that soldiers returning from Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, the most recent military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, experience high rates of substance abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental health conditions, according to background information in the article.
Happy Thursday!
Guy Montag|3.15.07 @ 10:31AM|#
Let me see if I have this straight (can we use that term in
H&R?) . . .
The civil liberties of everybody in america are at risk, every
protest organizer is under surveilance, but bing an Iraq vet gets
you immunity from government scrutany and the medical system
championed by Socialists?
SIGN ME UP!
Oops, I have been "signed up" for 28 years now. Help me think of
something wacky I can get away with :)
LarryA|3.15.07 @ 10:43AM|#
Washington D.C. makes people crazy? Stop the presses.
In my experience with veterans services a mental health consult is
the school solution anytime they can't immediately solve your
problem. I'm surprised it's only one third.
I read the same thing about returning Vietnam vets. It was probably
also true of the Persians who survived Thermopylae.
|3.15.07 @ 10:52AM|#
"Some reports have suggested that soldiers returning from
Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, the most recent
military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, experience high rates of
substance abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other
mental health conditions, according to background information in
the article."
What? Operation Tar Baby is stressful? I heard it was going to be a
cakewalk.
|3.15.07 @ 10:56AM|#
Remember that nutjob who flew a Cessna into Red Square in Moscow? I don't either.
|3.15.07 @ 11:08AM|#
Help me think of something wacky I can get away with
:)
"Hand it over, Guy," said Beatty with a fixed smile.
And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling, gibbering
mannikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn
as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him. There
was a hiss like a great mouthful of spittle banging a redhot stove,
a bubbling and frothing as if salt had been poured over a monstrous
black snail to cause a terrible liquefaction and a boiling over of
yellow foam. Montag shut his eyes, shouted, shouted, and fought to
get his hands at his ears to clamp and to cut away the sound.
Beatty flopped over and over and over, and at last twisted in on
himself like a charred wax doll and lay silent.
The other two firemen did not move.
Montag kept his sickness down long enough to aim the flame-thrower.
"Turn around!"
They turned, their faces like blanched meat, streaming sweat; he
beat their heads, knocking off their helmets and bringing them down
on themselves. They fell and lay without moving.
The blowing of a single autumn leaf.
He turned and the Mechanical Hound was there.
Egon|3.15.07 @ 11:36AM|#
Man, I feel totally gypped. When I came back from my time in
"the sandbox," all I had was a slight aversion to fireworks and
stairs.
But then, I still sometimes have dreams where we're moving out in
15 minutes and I can't find any of my gear...
|3.15.07 @ 12:28PM|#
What's with the anti-Roma people bias here? What if we change "Gypped" to "Jewed"?
|3.15.07 @ 12:38PM|#
On the other hand, I think we should insult every race.
Gypped is when you're Jewed out of a small amount of money. Jewed
is when someone Welches on a larger committment. If you let someone
Welch on a debt to you, you're a Polack, and if you don't make them
repay you eventually you're French.
(Actually, at one point in history "Frenchified" was used to mean
"debauched" in England).
|3.15.07 @ 12:50PM|#
Go ahead and try to enforce this ban on biased language. Personally, I don't think it's got a Chinaman's chance.
|3.15.07 @ 12:58PM|#
Know what a Quaker is? He can buy from a Jew and sell to a Scot and still make a fine profit!
|3.15.07 @ 1:19PM|#
Can I get in on this?
Um, watch out for the Puerto Rican with the knife.
No, that one is tired. Let me try again.
Watch out for the drunk Irishman on Saturday.
No, that sucks, too.
Samoans are fat.
That's better.
Guy Montag|3.15.07 @ 1:43PM|#
I think Monty Python's Flying Circus already covered
everything.
BTW, I need about 100 miles of fine copper wire. Anybody have 2
Scottish boys handy to fight over this penny?
|3.15.07 @ 2:11PM|#
I expect better of you people than using the names of
nationalities as insults.
What are you, a bunch of Mongoloids?
VM|3.15.07 @ 5:05PM|#
lpchad.com
http://www.lpchad.com/about-trixie/
bummer that lptrixie is down.
(p.s., check yer handle!)
|3.15.07 @ 5:17PM|#
Check whose handle? ;)
At best vaguely apropos, I'm reminded of something a female friend
once told me about a blind date:
"Heather said he drives a BMW, but I don't care about what kind of
car he drives.
"Besides, it was only a 3 series."
|3.15.07 @ 6:56PM|#
Its a damn good thing guns were illegal or it might have gone
real bad.
with his speed and natural ability to scale fences, you woulda
thought his name would have been more mexican sounding.
LarryA|3.15.07 @ 7:12PM|#
Man, I feel totally gypped. When I came back from my time in
"the sandbox," all I had was a slight aversion to fireworks and
stairs.
All I kept was the ability to instantly fall asleep riding in any
form of transportation. Oh, and the ability to wake up suddenly
when required.
But then, I still sometimes have dreams where we're moving out
in 15 minutes and I can't find any of my gear...
I have the opposite dream. It's time to march over the horizon, and
I have my gear. All 400 pounds of it.
Guy Montag|3.16.07 @ 1:09PM|#
David,
There was another White House fence jumper today. Saw it on the
news when I was slurping down tasty ribs at King Street
Blues!
Think he reads your posts?
M|3.17.07 @ 7:07AM|#
Alexis Janicki
Will be thought a sicky,
But his call
Echoes "Tear down this wall!"
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