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ENDING FOR A CONGRESSMAN WHO'S
TAKING ON SOME PRETTY
FRIGHTENING CHARACTERS.
>> Reporter: TED POE IS A FORMER
COUNTY JUDGE FROM TEXAS.
HE'S STARED DOWN MURDERERS AND
DRUG DEALERS, ORDERED OFFENDERS
TO CARRY SIGNS ADMITTING THEIR
CRIMES.
BUT WHAT WAS IT THAT ALMOST DID
HIM IN RECENTLY?
>> I WAS CHOKING ON A PIECE OF
POPCORN.
>> Reporter: NOTHING BUT THE
TRUTH.
POE, A REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN
FROM HOUSTON WAS IN THE CAPITOL
HILL CLUB.
HE THREW A FEW GRAINS OF POPCORN
IN HIS MOUTH AND ONE WAS LODGED
IN HIS THROAT.
>> I COULDN'T INHALE.
SEVERAL PEOPLE NOTICED THAT.
I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG IT WAS.
>> Reporter: FELLOW CONGRESSMAN
AND ANOTHER PERSON TRIED TO GIVE
HIM THE HEIMLICH MANEUVER.
IT DIDN'T WORK AT FIRST.
THEN NICK MUSIN WHO HAPPENS TO
BE A LICENSED DOCTOR JOINED IN.
AT ONE POINT WHEN NICK WAS
GIVING THE HEIMLICH MANEUVER,
DURING THAT CONGRESSMAN SAMMON
GAVE BACK BLOWS TO HELP.
WE'LL DEMONSTRATE IT.
ALL THAT TO DISLODGE THIS ONE
PIECE OF POPCORN.
>> DID YOU EVER THINK THIS IS
IT?
>> NO, I WASN'T THINKING THAT.
I WAS ENCOURAGING THEM TO KEEP
TRYING.
I WAS WAVING MY HAND FOR THEM TO
KEEP TRYING, AND THEY DID.
>> Reporter: FINALLY THE
HEIMLICH ROTATIONS DISLODGED THE
POPCORN.
THE CAPITOL HILL CLUB REFUSED TO
COMMENT.
BUT TED POE SAYS THIS ABOUT THAT
PLACE AND THAT MOMENT.
>> I'M
RATHER THAN MAYBE AROUND SOME OF
MY FORMER DEFENDANTS THAT I SAW
AT THE COURTHOUSE.
THEY MIGHT NOT HAVE MOVED QUITE
SO FAST TO HELP ME OUT.
>> THAT'S TWO PROMINENT
REPUBLICANS FROM TEXAS WHO HAVE
COLORFUL AND SCARY CHOKING
STORIES TO TELL.
FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
ONCE CHOKED SO *** A PRETZEL
THAT HE PASSED OUT AND INJURED
HIS FACE.
>> WHEN YOU'RE EATING PRETZELS,
CHEW BEFORE YOU SWALLOW.
>> Reporter: IS THIS SOMETHING
NOW YOU MAY WANT TO SHARE
STORIES WITH THE FORMER
PRESIDENT ABOUT?
>> WELL, WE COULD EXCHANGE THOSE
CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THAT, AS
WELL.
AND OF COURSE, I'M GLAD THAT I
DIDN'T ACTUALLY HAVE ANY OTHER
PROBLEMS.
DIDN'T THROW UP ON ANYBODY.
I WAS JUST CHOKING A LITTLE BIT.
>> Reporter: POE SAYS HE WENT ON
TO FINISH HIS MEAL.
FOR THE RECORD HE HAD A
HAMBURGER FOR DINNER.
HE JOBBED LATER THAT THE REASON
FOR HIS ACCIDENT WAS THAT HE HAD
JUST HEARD THE RESULT OF THE
CONGRESSIONAL BASEBALL GAME THAT
VERY NIGHT WITH THE DEMOCRATS
BEAT THE REPUBLICANS 22-0.
JAKE, HE ALSO SAYS HE WAS
WATCHING THE MIAMI HEAT PLAYING,
HIS FAVORITE TEAM THE SAN
ANTONIO SPURS, IN GAME TWO OF
THE FINALS, AND THAT'S THE GAME
THAT HE WON THE SERIES.
>> PEOPLE JOKE ABOUT THIS.
BUT IT'S THE KIND OF THING WHERE
HE MIGHT NOT EVER WANT TO EAT
POPCORN AGAIN.