# Whizzing Secret Service Agent? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 18, 2012, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whizzing-secret-service-agent/635054 "2012-09-18T07:04:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [September 18, 2012, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whizzing-secret-service-agent/635054/1 "2012-09-18T07:04:58Z")
Sure looks like it to me. 😛 [https://twitter.com/politico/status/247736744714317825/photo/1/large](https://twitter.com/politico/status/247736744714317825/photo/1/large) Secret Service says he was looking for bad guys. So why is he looking down at his shoes? 😕 What do you think he was doing? > **[Caught short on camera? Secret service agent is snapped apparently relieving...](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204773/Secret-service-agent-takes-pee-Obama-campaign-rally--claims-just-looking-threats.html)** > > A hilarious photograph seemingly shows a Secret Service agent urinating in full view of Barack Obama while the President was campaigning to hundreds of supporters gathered in Cincinnati's leafy Eden Park today. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whizzing-secret-service-agent/635054/2 "2012-09-18T08:29:17Z")
It does seem to be the classic pose for taking a piss. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whizzing-secret-service-agent/635054/3 "2012-09-18T13:24:45Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Secret Service says he was looking for bad guys. So why is he looking down at his shoes? 😕 Maybe he’s Facebooking on his phone. I actually don’t think he’s peeing, but it does look like the stance. Who pisses uphill, anyway? ---
**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:** [September 18, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whizzing-secret-service-agent/635054/4 "2012-09-18T13:30:30Z")
I agree. He wouldn’t be peeing in front of that large seated crowd. It’s just a really funny photobomb while Obama is speaking. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whizzing-secret-service-agent/635054/5 "2012-09-18T13:30:30Z")
The problem is it’s just a snapshot. Maybe he was on perimeter duty and and was just looking down or stretching his neck after his mandated visual sweeps of the area. It is a funny picture though if you’re not trying to use it to score political points. (this line directed at the media) ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whizzing-secret-service-agent/635054/6 "2012-09-18T13:58:09Z")
If I were taking a leak in that location, I would be pointed about 45-60 degrees more to the left than the guy in the blue shirt is facing. One, because the pee would just run down the hill right onto my shoes, and B. because I would actually have my back to the crowd, not give them a one-eighth profile. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whizzing-secret-service-agent/635054/7 "2012-09-18T17:36:12Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Secret Service says he was looking for bad guys. So why is he looking down at his shoes? 😕 The dude between the President and the building is also looking down. What’s up with that _huh_? Most people you see out these days are staring down. They generally are not peeing. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whizzing-secret-service-agent/635054/8 "2012-09-18T17:43:01Z")
Why is he not in a suit? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whizzing-secret-service-agent/635054/9 "2012-09-18T18:29:37Z")
Where does he think he is, Columbia? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whizzing-secret-service-agent/635054/10 "2012-09-18T18:34:03Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Maybe he’s Facebooking on his phone. That was my impression too, that he’s checking his messages. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whizzing-secret-service-agent/635054/11 "2012-09-18T18:45:21Z")
Do you really think the Secret Service hasn’t figured how to handle it when an agent really needs to pee? You don’t think they say something in those walkie talkies and some floating agent comes and relieves them? I mean another agent comes and lets the floating agent get some relief? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whizzing-secret-service-agent/635054/12 "2012-09-18T18:49:40Z")
He’s on his phone. Look at his elbows, they are just a little too high for him to be holding his dick. They are just at the right angle to look down at a phone held at waist height, however. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whizzing-secret-service-agent/635054/13 "2012-09-18T21:27:27Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Do you really think the Secret Service hasn’t figured how to handle it when an agent really needs to pee? You don’t think they say something in those walkie talkies and some floating agent comes and relieves them? I mean another agent comes and lets the floating agent get some relief? Well, if he’s just relieving himself then he’d have done better to go _behind_ some of those bushes in the background, rather than just standing out there. And if another agent is relieving him, then they’d best _both_ be doing it behind some bushes! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whizzing-secret-service-agent/635054/14 "2012-09-19T03:02:59Z")
Gotta be careful where you cock your Glock. ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whizzing-secret-service-agent/635054/15 "2012-09-19T13:32:07Z")
Is he really a Secret Service agent? He’s not in a suit; his shirt isn’t even tucked in. I think an agent would have more sense than to take a leak right there so close to the President.