Flung teabags lock down West Wing

Hey! Quit throwing stuff. (afp photo)

The West Wing is in lockdown after some of the spirited Tax Day tea party demonstrators in the park across the street hurled something — believed to be tea bags — over the northside fence of the White House.

The TV standup position in the driveway known as Pebble Beach was cleared — Ed Henry, now broadcasting from the briefing room! — and officers were stationed outside, keeping reporters in place while a HazMat team detonated the thrown objects, or whatever. They never tell us much.

The scourge of the northwest gate!

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