Here's an idea.... Before spending 40 million dollars to install a security system at a former site of the biggest terrorist attack ever to take place on American soil, maybe, oh I don't know.... Test it to make sure some 16 year-old teen isn't able to beat it. (And then climb up to the very needle of number 1 World Trade.) Hmmm.... Just an idea.
Yup, a 16 year-old defeated a $40,000,000 security system. And honestly, I can't blame the kid. Ironically, can't blame the security guard who fell asleep either. Two reasons for the latter. One, the guard was just one layer of security in what was supposed to be a multi-layer system. Two, despite the guard being fired over this, anyone who has worked night-after-night of endless security shifts knows that human-beings have an internal clock and simply were not designed to work regular nightly shifts for years. Ironically, many security managers know that too. They just don't care.
As for how the kid pulled it off, apparently he snuck through a hole in the fence that was considered too small for an adult or a teenager to squeeze into. Then, he managed to make it to the elevator. (Some say he was dressed up as a construction worker. But that's a rumor as of now.) Once at the elevator, he managed to figure out how it works. (Not a normal elevator such as those inside an apartment building.) He then went up to the 88th floor. At some point he snuck past the sleeping guard. Climbed the stairs up to the top floor from there. And finally climbed up the needle.
Being a typical modern 16 year-old dumbass, he used his cellphone to document his climb.... Then posted the pics. up on the internet. That's how authorities even knew he had done this.
As can be expected, many New Yorkers are rightfully angry as Hell! As a New Yorker who has lived in this city since 1979, so am I. But I don't blame the 16 year-old. I'm not angry with him. "Oh look! A teenager did something stupid." :ironic:
But in the process, highlighted just how seriously security is taken in this city.
Here's a link to an article about it:
www.cnn.com/2014/03/20/us/new-york-world-trade-center-intruder/
Yup, a 16 year-old defeated a $40,000,000 security system. And honestly, I can't blame the kid. Ironically, can't blame the security guard who fell asleep either. Two reasons for the latter. One, the guard was just one layer of security in what was supposed to be a multi-layer system. Two, despite the guard being fired over this, anyone who has worked night-after-night of endless security shifts knows that human-beings have an internal clock and simply were not designed to work regular nightly shifts for years. Ironically, many security managers know that too. They just don't care.
As for how the kid pulled it off, apparently he snuck through a hole in the fence that was considered too small for an adult or a teenager to squeeze into. Then, he managed to make it to the elevator. (Some say he was dressed up as a construction worker. But that's a rumor as of now.) Once at the elevator, he managed to figure out how it works. (Not a normal elevator such as those inside an apartment building.) He then went up to the 88th floor. At some point he snuck past the sleeping guard. Climbed the stairs up to the top floor from there. And finally climbed up the needle.
Being a typical modern 16 year-old dumbass, he used his cellphone to document his climb.... Then posted the pics. up on the internet. That's how authorities even knew he had done this.
As can be expected, many New Yorkers are rightfully angry as Hell! As a New Yorker who has lived in this city since 1979, so am I. But I don't blame the 16 year-old. I'm not angry with him. "Oh look! A teenager did something stupid." :ironic:
But in the process, highlighted just how seriously security is taken in this city.
Here's a link to an article about it:
www.cnn.com/2014/03/20/us/new-york-world-trade-center-intruder/
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