Secret Service Catch Mexican Official Nabbing White House BlackBerries (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352378,00.html)

Whether he was up to no good or simply desperate to play BrickBreaker, a Mexican press attache was caught on camera by Secret Service pocketing several White House BlackBerries during a recent meeting in New Orleans, FOX News has learned.

Sources with knowledge of the incident said the official, whose first name is Rafael, took six or seven of the handheld devices from a table outside a special room in the hotel where the Mexican delegation was meeting with President Bush.

Everyone entering the room was required to leave their cell phones, BlackBerries and other such devices on the table, a commonplace practice when high-level meetings are held. American officials discovered their missing belongings when they were leaving the session.

It didn't take long before Secret Service officials reviewed videotape taken by a surveillance camera and found footage showing "Rafael" absconding with the BlackBerries.

Sources said "Rafael" made it all the way to the airport, where the Mexican president was preparing to leave New Orleans, before Secret Service officers caught up with him. He was forced to return the BlackBerries.

Sources said the man claimed to have taken the devices accidentally. The sources said they believe no further actions were taken against him by American authorities, though it is unclear what disciplinary measures, if any, await him in Mexico.


i guess their not satisfied with stealing American jobs, and pushing their poor off on us. now they're literally stealing cell phones! :rant:

Damn.

i guess their not satisfied with stealing American jobs....

How do you "steal" a job?

For some reason when I read the headline I pictured him on the White House grounds bent over a blackberry bush.

For some reason when I read the headline I pictured him on the White House grounds bent over a blackberry bush.

Actually, so did I.

How do you "steal" a job?
under cutting the competition to the point they can't legally compete. but that's ok, the New River (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_River_%28California%29) flows back into the CA.

For some reason when I read the headline I pictured him on the White House grounds bent over a blackberry bush.
thanks for putting the image of yet another Mexican picking fruit in mah head:slap:


i will have mah revenge!!!:rant:

Actually, so did I.


:lolhit:

me too.

Am I the only one who doesn't think of the fruit when I hear the term "blackberry"? :p It must be another product of my generation, huh? When I hear "Apple" i think "Mac" :p

Am I the only one who doesn't think of the fruit when I hear the term "blackberry"? :p It must be another product of my generation, huh? When I hear "Apple" i think "Mac" :p


OMG. you just made me feel so old and i'm only 26!!!!

:@@:

I have learned to think of an electronic device when I hear the term "blackberry", yet everyone I know who owns one calls them "crackberries".

Gives a new dimension to FREE Trade Agreement.

PS: Have to admit, I was thinking about berries in gardens myself.

What a fool, and how embarrassing for Mexico. An "accident", huh? What, was he filling in for the busboy? How ridiculously ironic.

All I pictured was a little guy in a sombrero picking blackberries from a bush, not Blackberries from Mr. Bush.