Alex Shoumatoff, Vanity Fair Writer, Arrested For Sneaking In To Bohemian Grove

San Francisco Sentinel:

Vanity Fair contributing editor Alex Shoumatoff was arrested this week after he tried to sneak in to the world famous Bohemian Grove, the exclusive getaway of some of the world's most powerful men who gather there every year in July for two weeks. See San Francisco Chronicle's Matier and Ross column.

The portly Shoumatoff was ingloriously handcuffed and arrested July 13 for trespassing after only managing to get past the first security checkpoint at the Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio, Calif.

Shoumatoff probably figured that a fat guy wearing a Pebble Beach sweater would fit right in with the rich, famous and powerful. Boy, was he wrong. He was spotted right away and wrongly answered a series of questions from Grove security guards, many of whom are former CIA and FBI agents. Shoumatoff was so out of his element that he was allegedly captured by one of the Club's plumbers, who was helping beef-up security that night. You read that right: Shoumatoff was arrested by a guy holding down two jobs, plumber and part-time security guard. No doubt the Bohemian Club has promoted that young gentlemen, who clearly has a great law enforcement career in front of him. How often can you say that you captured a Vanity Fair editor, unarmed and only using a plunger? This kid is going places.

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Comments

[ebanks84]

06:31 PM on 07/17/2008

Ok, so the truth will not come out here I see. If you really want to know what goes on there, google bohemian grove and read everything you can find. It will blow your mind to know that our government is involved in such perverted behavior.

[ebanks84]

06:18 PM on 07/17/2008

They just don't want the rituals that go on there to come out to the public that's all. And please don't let the public know that they are a bunch of perverts who sleep with each other (no women allowed except in the kitchen). The good old boys have a great old time it seems, burning effigys and playing together for two weeks. And to think presidents and top political congressmen and senators go to that place. A government full of sexual perverts. And we wonder why are country is so screwed!

[protagonia]

09:24 AM on 07/17/2008

Not a lot of Bohemians up there.

[WomanInOrangeSweater]

09:17 PM on 07/16/2008

The reason they won't let outsiders into the grove is because if they did, it would be discovered that it's no longer a place where the powerful meet. It's a place where nobodies who have 20 grand to spare (plus ridiculous annual dues) can go, pee on ancient redwoods and feel important and proud that they may be peeing on the same tree that Kissinger peed on 20 or 30 years ago.

[Bobleblah1]

07:57 PM on 07/16/2008

Is this article for real?
This is a start to finish smear job on a guy even before he writes an article.
Why would this man Shoumatoff be inclined to write anything positive about the grove after
some goon that represents them trashes him like this?

This is some really biased s**t.

[darthdarcy]

06:20 PM on 07/16/2008

Bohemian Grove and The Bilderberg Group loath the honest open scrutiny of a free and democratic society...they are the hot beds of International Fascist Conspiracy...

[jubo]

05:12 PM on 07/16/2008

What have they to hide? Global genocide, for starters...

Twinkle, twinkle little meteorite, how I wonder how quickly you'll annihilate us....

[haleywins]

04:30 PM on 07/16/2008

So this is what is wrong with the media.

More evidence of an industry absorbed with the self-absorbed.

[ROBOT8]

04:02 PM on 07/16/2008

REPUBLICANS LIKE TO TAKE A WIDE STANCE ON THEIR MAN ON MAN STUFF...........OHHHH LOOK AT ME! I'M A DANCER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HEY! TURN UP THOSE SHOW TUNES!!!!!!!!!!!!

[spiderbucket]

03:56 PM on 07/16/2008

We need to rise up and put an end to these secret societies.

[dexxjones]

05:05 PM on 07/16/2008

yeah sure its about trees.

[Vinca]

11:01 AM on 07/17/2008

I thought the Bohemian Grove was kinda similiar to ,Skull and Bones

[ebanks84]

06:21 PM on 07/17/2008

That's what makes it sound so stupid, trees! Grown men getting together to admire trees? I don't think so.

[Vinca]

08:40 AM on 07/17/2008

I've heard some things about the Bohemian Grove, IT SEEMS KINDA A STRANG PLACE TO GO