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After sinking his jet ski, a 31-year-old man was forced to swim to the only lights he saw on shore. Wearing a bright yellow life jacket, the man penetrated John F. Kennedy airport, bypassing the $100 million security system.
Soaking wet, Casillo made it to shore, bypassing a sophisticated system of motion sensors and closed-circuit cameras and climbing an eight-foot barbed-wire perimeter fence meant to protect against terrorists and other national security threats.
Still wearing his life jacket, the young man then walked into a terminal and approached a Delta Airlines worker, who was startled and called the authorities.
The outraged head of the Port Authority police union today demanded an investigation into how a swamped jet skier was able to breach Kennedy Airport’s troubled $100 million security system.
Paul Nunziato, president of the authority’s PBA, will send a letter to PA big Patrick Foye “demanding a PA inspector’s general investigation into the failed Perimeter Intrusion Detection System, the cost over-runs and the relationship between the Port Authority and Raytheon, the vendor,” said Robert Egbert, a PBA spokesman.
The demand for answers followed an exclusive report in The Post yesterday on how the marooned jet skier easily overcame the supposedly fool-proof security system at JFK.
After a night of partying with pals, sinking his jet ski and swimming to shore, Daniel Casillo, 31, of Howard Beach strolled undetected across two runways and into a terminal.
Neither motion sensors nor closed-circuit cameras of the Perimeter Intrusion Detection System, or PIDS, detected Casillo, who was only busted when he approached a startled Delta Airlines worker near Gate 10.
Earlier that night, Casillo had been drinking at a Rosedale watering hole with his buds when they decided to go out racing their personal watercraft.
Casillo got separated from his partners as darkness fell, and then his jet ski conked out -- so he swam 3 miles to a runway at the airport.
Casillo -- in a bright yellow life vest -- climbed the eight-foot tall perimeter fence and made it all the way to Terminal 3 without anyone noticing.
Once apprehended, he was charged with criminal trespass.
The ballyhooed PIDS system, which was first announced in 2009, has proven to be a boondoggle, having never fully come online after a series of delays.
The PA, which runs the airport, says that it has stepped up patrols and is reviewing the incident and that it plans to meet with PIDS maker Raytheon this week about the breach.
a Raytheon rep said, “We are working closely with the Port Authority to determine what happened. “
"I think he should be given dinner and a bottle of champagne for showing us our faults," said Nicholas Casale, an NYPD veteran and former MTA deputy security director for counterterrorism.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
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I think a few people need to be fired over this, and I believe some will be fired.
Originally posted by getreadyalready
They see me sitting there outside the fence, on a public road, and they NEVER ask me what I'm doing there. I could be sitting there with a 30-06, or a missile launcher for all they know, and as long as I'm 3 feet outside the fence, apparently they don't care.
Originally posted by DerekJR321
Originally posted by buddhasystem
reply to post by buddhasystem
I think a few people need to be fired over this, and I believe some will be fired.
Yes. Unfortunately it will be some nobody that gets sacrificed. No one of any real significance will be held accountable.
I don't actually think that you meant it this way, but do you realize that this↑ entire post could be viewed as you [color=CC9D9D]complaining about not having even more of your rights taken away?
Originally posted by getreadyalready
......I could be sitting there with a 30-06, or a missile launcher for all they know, and as long as I'm 3 feet outside the fence, apparently they don't care.
I could also rent a plane............., and get out and be free to wander around the hundreds of passenger aircraft getting ready for departure.
TSA is worthless.
If it were me, I would probably tell a slightly different version of that story.....
Originally posted by getreadyalready
Definitely a great party story!! Got drunk, sunk a wave-runner, swam 3 miles, dodged security, scaled a fence, walked up to some runway personnel, and got arrested. Wow.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
Originally posted by getreadyalready
They see me sitting there outside the fence, on a public road, and they NEVER ask me what I'm doing there. I could be sitting there with a 30-06, or a missile launcher for all they know, and as long as I'm 3 feet outside the fence, apparently they don't care.
And if they did approach you and started asking questions or maybe even asked you to leave, you'd probably waste no time complaining here how your freedoms were grossly violated.
They can't win, can they?
I don't actually think that you meant it this way, but do you realize that this↑ entire post could be viewed as you complaining about not having even more of your rights taken away?
Originally posted by getreadyalready
One time I saw a cop parked back up behind some bushes in a school zone speed trapping people while kids were crossing the road. I parked, got out, and walked over to his car and lectured him about his duties to protect the kids instead of catching speeders. I took down his badge number and vehicle number and filed a complaint. Better to be a deterrent than to catch someone breaking a law. Not only was he not serving as a deterrent, he was serving as a distraction to draw people's eyes up into the bushes instead of on the crosswalk in front of them!