President Barack Obama thought that he and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were going to Cartagena, Colombia to attend a productive, but otherwise uneventful meeting with other national leaders at the annual Summit of the Americas. Too bad for Barack a few of the secret service detail that preceded his arrival in the country in order to secure the location turned out to be a bunch of pompous men who thought that they could flaunt their power over poor women.

The secret service agents brought a bus load of prostitutes back to their hotel after picking up the women in a strip club. After one women serviced two agents, the agent though that they could stiff the woman (pun intended) of fee for her services. Like any good businesswoman, the prostitute insisted that since she had served both men she should be paid full price for each of the men; the agents had another, less expensive plan–they insisted that they should only have to pay the woman one full-price fee, with each man paying 50% of the total.

A disagreement ensued and the women was not paid the sum that she felt due her. Later the prostitute complained to police officers who were outside of the hotel. The Colombian police officers went to the room of the agents to investigate the womans’ claim and, at first, the secret service officer refused to even open the door. At some point the Colombian officials discovered that there had been at least 11 women brought back to the hotel room, presumably for sexual services, and the U.S. was notified.

Once the Director of the Secret Service, Mark Sullivan, caught wind of what had gone down (another intended pun) in Colombia, he told all of the agents to immediately get on the next available flight headed back to the US. The entire incident is still under investigation and heads are already starting to roll (OK, last pun, I promise); as of Monday, all of the Secret Service members — including agents and uniformed officers — were stripped of their security clearances.

So, some secret service agents ruined their careers all because they didn’t want to pay a prostitute an additional $40 to $60. Secret service agents probably make a minimum of $75,000 a year, but they felt that they shouldn’t have to pay the equivalent of pocket change to a poor woman for sexual services. In the agents minds, they thought “Who does she think she is, demanding that she be paid twice because she performed twice?!” Well, they showed her! And then she showed them.