# The Secret Service bad luck continues.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-service-bad-luck-continues/620930>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 4, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-service-bad-luck-continues/620930 "2012-05-04T21:39:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-service-bad-luck-continues/620930/1 "2012-05-04T21:39:04Z")

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Well, at least he didn’t have a hooker in the car at the time. 😛

Been a rough few weeks for the Secret Service. The reporting isn’t very good either. A Agent, their car? Singular/plural screw up. 😃

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> A Secret Service agent struck and killed a woman with their car in Brooklyn this afternoon, law enforcement sources said.
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> The victim, Maria Tripp, 47 – who lived only four blocks from the scene – was walking along Atlantic Avenue and Ralph Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant when she was hit around 4:50 p.m. She was pronounced dead at Brookdale Hospital.

> **[Secret Service agent strikes, kills New York pedestrian](https://www.foxnews.com/us/secret-service-agent-strikes-kills-new-york-pedestrian)**
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> A Secret Service agent struck and killed a woman with their car in Brooklyn this afternoon, law enforcement sources said.

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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-secret-service-bad-luck-continues/620930/2 "2012-05-04T22:03:26Z")

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More info. Geez, this was much worse than I realized. She was a mom and had 5 kids.

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> Tripp was walking with her 12-year old daughter and 19-year old nephew at the time. A witness described to The Daily News, “She was messed up, she was unconscious. I saw her body on the sidewalk. She was facedown and, oh, my God, the blood…The girl was screaming.”

> **[Brooklyn Mother Of Five Struck And Killed By Secret Service Agent](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/secret-service-agents-car-struck-killed-maria-tripp-brooklyn_n_1477057?ref=new-york)**
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> Brooklyn Mother Of Five Struck And Killed By Secret Service Agent