That gets you thinking. They strip search blue haired old ladies, but a stranded party guy walks right in. Not good.
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When Daniel Casillo's jet ski sunk in the Jamaican Bay, he decided to try to swim to shore. After swimming 3 miles, he ended up at JFK Airport in New York. When he stepped onto land, he was right in front of the airport's
8-foot-high fence designed to keep out terrorists.
Dressed in a bright-yellow life vest, Casillo climbed right over the wall and walked across two runways to a tarmac outside the terminal at the airport.
No one noticed Casillo until he approached a Delta Airlines employee outside the terminal. That's when the airport notified the police.
What Casillo may not have known is that he had just breached a $100 million, state-of-the-art security system designed to keep the most dangerous terrorists away. He walked past motion detectors and closed-circuit cameras completely undetected.
The failed system, made by Raytheon, is called the Port Authority's Perimeter Intrustion Detection System (PIDS).
What's interesting is that a man dripping wet and wearing bright yellow made it past the entire security system without even a single person or camera noticing him.
Authorities arrested the man and charged him with criminal trespassing. News reports say he was partying the night before with friends. But why are they focusing on the man who climbed the wall instead of asking how he managed to get all the way through security at the airport? The man isn't a criminal -- he was stranded and had to swim 3 miles.
If he hadn't approached the Delta worker, he probably could have made it inside.
The Port Authority police are blaming the security system. Still, how do we know who is completely at fault? Did the airport disable the security system for some reason or did the system just fail?
And how did nobody see a man in a yellow vest climb the fence?
Posted by Ariel Brouillard on Aug 13, 2012