The US Secret Service said on Sunday it was investigating reports of overnight gunfire near Lafayette Park, which is across the street from the White House.
No injuries were reported and no suspect was found after a search of the park and the surrounding area after midnight, the agency said in an online post.
Donald Trump was spending the weekend at the White House, which had no immediate comment on the incident. White House operations remained as normal but security in the area was increased, according to the Secret Service.
The park has been fenced off for weeks of renovations.
The Secret Service said it was working with District of Columbia police and US Park Police.
Wouldn’t be surprised if they were running drills
Was he in the white house or in the hospital?
Any chance it was a single gunshot from the Oval Office, with no one leaving afterwards?
Walls are closing in!
The park has been fenced off for weeks of renovations.
Ah. So that’s where the tunnel goes, and where the escape-Denalis are parked.
oh shit, somebody about to git kirk’d? 😮
Fire crackers ?
My first thought is kids fucking around. Or not-kids fucking around.
But, yeah, probably just a prank. I’ve lived in New York long enough not to jump every time I hear a bang that sounds like a gunshot, because most of the time, it isn’t. Firecracker. Car or truck backfiring. Especially now that they’re adding more ethanol to the gasoline, a car or truck backfiring is more likely than it used to be.
Ethanol has been added to the petrol here for years; it produces no negative effects whatsoever, certainly no explosive noises.
Greetings from Europe
Adding a bit of ethanol is not bad, in and of itself. We do it here too.
Increasing the amount of ethanol further, in order to extend fuel reserves, can start to have negative effect on the engine— one of those side effects includes causing the engine to backfire.
The standard here is E5 or E10,
All vehicles from the last 25 years handle this perfectly well, classic vehicles less so.
Higher than E20 will indeed cause problems, due to engine lifespan.
We have E85 lol
Though e15 is much more common, e85 was an expensive and failed experiment with tax dollars to put more money in the corn producers pockets. Actually that part worked, the adoption and actually being worse for the environment generally didn’t.
First time i heard of this, whitch country ?
The US, but it’s clearly marked and only supposed to be used in engines rated for it.
That escalated quickly
