Prior to resigning on Wednesday, Secret Service director Julia Pierson was called to testify on Capitol Hill about a series of high-profile security breaches.

As Jon Stewart pointed out on “The Daily Show” on Wednesday night, “it did not go well.”

“Here’s how dysfunctional the Secret Service is at this point: Congress had to help them come up with solutions,” Stewart said.

The ideas range from locking the White House doors to spiked plants at the fence line to shooting and killing intruders. But one idea they didn’t look at?

“A series of whimsical traps,” Stewart said.

Yes, the kinds of traps used in “Home Alone.”

As Senior White House Correspondent Jordan Klepper discovers, such traps can be highly effective.

Check it out in the clip above.