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Team Sergeant
08-14-2012, 15:32
Homeland Security, TSA, etc cannot even stop a stranded jet skier, and they actually think they are going to stop hardened terrorists.......... Read the whole story, this guy walked through 100 million dollars of security (probably a DHS grant paid for by you and me) five buck says the individuals that designed the system get a bonus and a position with DHS........ morons.
Stranded jet-skier saunters through JFK safeguards
By PHILIP MESSING and ERIN CALABRESE
Last Updated: 9:22 AM, August 12, 2012
Posted: 12:43 AM, August 12, 2012
Some safety net.
A stranded jet-skier seeking help effortlessly overcame the Port Authority’s $100 million, supposedly state-of-the-art security system at JFK Airport — walking undetected across two runways and into a terminal, The Post has learned.
Motion sensors and closed-circuit cameras of the Perimeter Intrusion Detection System, or PIDS, were no match for Daniel Casillo, 31, of Howard Beach, who easily breached the system meant to safeguard against terrorists.
Casillo’s adventure began at a Rosedale watering hole, where he was hanging out with friends when they decided to go out racing their watercraft.
“They were trying to see who had the fastest jet skis, like idiots,” said his girlfriend, Deanna Cowan.
But Casillo’s ride broke down in the dark waters of Jamaica Bay at around 7:45 p.m. — and his pals didn’t notice they had left Casillo behind.
With his craft taking on water, he called Cowan in a panic.
“He said, ‘I’m stuck!’ and told me to call his friend Albert to come out and tow him in,” Cowan, 28, recalled.
But help didn’t come, and the stranded Casillo swam three miles toward the only thing he could see — the lights of Runway 4-Left, which sticks out into the bay.
“He didn’t want to go that way, because you’re not allowed to go over there,” Cowan told The Post.
Dripping wet and in a bright-yellow life jacket, Casillo climbed the perimeter fence, which is eight feet high, and walked across that runway and intersecting Runway 31L — and made it all the way to Terminal 3 without anyone noticing.
Casillo was finally apprehended when he approached a Delta Airlines worker near Gate10. He was charged with criminal trespass.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/beach_of_security_oLGkvicnaDyzVXCUQZGi5H#ixzz23YgI DuUC
Wonder where else this (or similar) system is currently in place...power plants, dams, ports, water treatment facilities, border areas...No good.
Dozer523
08-14-2012, 16:26
A systm is only as good as the monitor who probably was not monitoring anything.
Bright yellow life jacket? What about the Speedo? That shoulda got him arrested!
Govt security is a joke. I have passed thru customs many times coming from bogota. If my hair was short, tactical pants and polo. The never even looked at me. If my hair was long, jeans and ratty T-shirt. I got checked every time.
It's NYC.
Remember shortly after 9/11 when they were clearing the 'Ground Zero' site and after a week or so somebody asked, "Hey, just who owns all those dump trucks hauling away all that steel?"
"Youse guys fugiddabooutit!"
And so it goes... ;)
Richard :munchin
A systm is only as good as the monitor who probably was not monitoring anything.
Bright yellow life jacket? What about the Speedo? That shoulda got him arrested!
Agreed. Maybe they should arrest the "monitor" and take the trespasser out to dinner for exposing the weakness.
One would think that a $100 million should include a good monitor (or two or 100) and some DD coffee.
Maybe this jetski guy just read too many of Cdr. (Ret) Marcinko's stuff - no worries - Big Sis is on the job.
mojaveman
08-14-2012, 17:55
Govt security is a joke. I have passed thru customs many times coming from bogota. If my hair was short, tactical pants and polo. The never even looked at me. If my hair was long, jeans and ratty T-shirt. I got checked every time.
Yep.
If I'm sporting a goatee, tank top, shorts, sandals, etc. while returning to this country I get the routine every time. If I dress conservative with a nice colared shirt, nice slacks, shoes, etc. they leave me alone.
Moral of the story? If you're going to smuggle at least dress nice because it might help. :p
Badger52
08-14-2012, 17:59
Govt security is a joke. I have passed thru customs many times coming from bogota. If my hair was short, tactical pants and polo. The never even looked at me. If my hair was long, jeans and ratty T-shirt. I got checked every time.
Yep.
If I'm sporting a goatee, tank top, shorts, sandals, etc. while returning to this country I get the routine every time. If I dress conservative with a nice colared shirt, nice slacks, shoes, etc. they leave me alone.
Moral of the story? If you're going to smuggle at least dress nice because it might help. :pI guess the 10's of millions in the last appropriation for Behavioral Detection Specialists aren't up to speed yet, so they're :eek: profiling.
Airports are HUGE places and, considering the relatively small security forces on them, the response time is long and, mostly, limited to perimeter roads since you can't cross active runways without contacting Ground Control. (Yes they can do that, but a hand full of false alarms and...well, you know.)
At LAX (with a relatively small footprint for a major airport), we used to have kids climb the fence, run out onto the runways and lay on the approach end centerline as aircraft landed. Even if they'd set off perimeter sensors, they could cover a lot of ground before security showed up.
Pat
GratefulCitizen
08-14-2012, 20:52
Your tax dollars at work.
Worked security at the Glen Canyon Dam for several years.
They put in nice bright security lights...which pointed inward.
The first generation of cameras had blind spots in critical locations.
Several sets of nice, expensive night-vision binoculars were purchased by the BOR for security in 2002...and remained boxed up for 4 years because they were considered too expensive to use.
The story on the 9/11 reaction: a security guard was sent out to stand on top of the middle of the dam to look for airplanes (not sure what an airplane would do to 10 million tons of concrete, or what the security guard was expected to do).
When I delivered packages to the visitor center during the day, they made sure that I had no blades, nail clippers, or any uninspected metallic objects.
When I showed up for work at night, they gave me free, unsupervised roam of the place (including the interior of the dam) with keys to everything and a gun.
It gets far worse but I don't want to actually expose any vulnerabilities which may still exist.
A system is only as good as the monitor who probably was not monitoring anything.The CYA finger pointing in earnest soon after. From the New York Post, source is here (http://www.nypost.com/f/print/news/local/demand_for_probe_in_jet_ski_jfk_UFuNAhuG9hmJDnXlO3 UbGM).Call for probe in jet ski JFK breach
By PHILIP MESSING
Last Updated: 8:22 PM, August 12, 2012
Posted: 8:20 PM, August 12, 2012
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. “It would be interesting if the probe includes an audit of the break logs.
Team Sergeant
08-14-2012, 21:36
Yeah as was said before, the same equipment used to "secure" nuclear plants, research labs, etc.
Five bucks says the New York "union" that oversees security at JFK does a 10 million dollar investigation, blames no one but Raytheon and then goes back to sleeping on the job.;)
Nothing to see here, lets move along.