Meanwhile, construction workers at the World Trade Center site were furious that the high-school junior was able to breach four layers of police and private security and climb all the way onto the iconic spire of the nation’s tallest building — a prime terrorist target. “Rings of security my ass!” one hardhat groused. Modal Trigger Photo: Facebook Another said it was “scary” that Casquejo was able to pull off the stunt so easily. “This place has a big bull’s-eye on it, and I don’t even want to think what could have happened if it was somebody with bad intentions,” he added. As reported exclusively by The Post, the skinny teen squeezed through the barbed-wire fence surrounding Ground Zero around 4 a.m. Sunday and conned a clueless elevator operator into giving him a lift up to the tower’s 88th floor. He then hiked up the stairs to the 104th floor, slipped past a snoozing security guard and made his way onto the antenna mast. The teen spent two hours hours snapping photos with a camera and cell phone, but got nabbed on his way out by an alert construction worker, who held him for cops. He was charged with misdemeanor trespassing. The sleeping guard was immediately fired, and the elevator operator — who has union protection — was reassigned, sources have said. Red-faced Port Authority cops are still investigating the failures that let Casquejo run wild around Ground Zero. “We take security and these types of infractions extremely seriously and will prosecute violators,” PA Chief Security Officer Joseph Dunne said in a statement. “We continue to re-assess our security posture at the site and are constantly working to make this site as secure as possible.” nypost/2014/03/20/teens-wtc-breach-took-just-a-month-to-plan/
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 21:44:51 +0000
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