Jakob Volkmann Earns Visit From The Secret Service

Well it seems an interesting turn of events that UFC lightweight Jacob Volkmann should receive a visit from the Secret Service while his opponent from this past weekends UFC 125 event, Antonio McKee, received his pink slip from the promotion.
Anyway, during a post fight interview with Ariel Helwani Volkmann called out President Barack Obama saying that “Someone needs to knock some sense into that idiot. I’m a chiropractor so I know the health care situation is not good but he’s making it worse.”
Well apparently someone in D.C. took his quote a little too seriously and sent the Secret Service to visit Volkmann in Minnesota to talk about his “comments.”

“It happened on Tuesday, I was coaching youth practice, and then two guys came up and one of the other coaches that was helping me out, they said there was a cop and another guy out there waiting for me,” Volkmann told MMAWeekly.com. “I went out there and the guy introduced himself and said he was from the Secret Service and he wanted to ask me some questions about UFC 125 and my quote. He said there were people calling in to D.C. telling them that somebody, me, was threatening the President.”
“This guy had the whole interview on a piece of paper and it had my picture and everything,” said Volkmann. “He was like ‘is this what you said?’ and I said, ‘yes it is.’ He’s like ‘I want to let you know I’m a little embarrassed for coming here and doing this because obviously nothing happened.’ He actually apologized for coming, but he had to come. He wanted to make sure I wasn’t going to D.C to hurt the President.”

After his conversation with the Secret Service, it appears Volkmann is off the hook and the matter is closed.
To be honest, I thought an incident like this would happen to someone like Chael Sonnen rather than Volkmann, but I guess all “threats” to the President need to be investigated.