Posted on 01/03/2010 5:38:02 PM PST by tsmith130
Newark Liberty Airport Reportedly in Lockdown Over Security Breach
Heard that a woman was texting and not paying attention to where she was walking..............
We sure got a lot for all those hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the TSA and homeland security.
About as efficient as the NYC police who checked out the white van and gave it the okay because it had a police placard in the window. Never mind it had no license plates.
Talk about accountability..........JOKE OF THE DAY
Until we are attacked while the idiots in charge are busy sucking their thumbs on a beach somewhere.
We left DIA (Denver) the day they announced the arrest of Zazi the terrorist in NYC. He’d left from Denver.
DIA was packed with uniformed police and security. Hundreds of extra officers everywhere. Unknown plain clothed officers.
We arrive in Newark and there is not a single uniformed officer anywhere. Terminal C was pretty much empty. A couple of no speakee TSA types chatting away to each other ignoring everyone arriving.
Go figure.
Evidently NY/NJ Port Authority has more important things to do than surveil the NY Metro airports.
Seems the jihadis are always 5 steps ahead of them and they are always responding to yesterday’s threat.
I haven’t been thru that stretch in ages, but once you have-you NEVER forget it!
Thanx for the memories-I think!
“;^)
SZQ
I particularly enjoy the drivers who stop dead in the road to read the overhead signs leading up to the terminal ramp. Keeps you on your toes!
All Terror needs to cause costly disruptions is to be "hinted at".
However Liberty Airport is in "Nork," New Jersey.
I would be really ticked off if this caused me to miss the first day of a ski vacation.
He was finally re-checked through security at midnight (6 hours after his first check). He called and said they were now scheduled to leave at 12:30 am. I just check his flight status and it appears they didn’t actually leave until 2:00 am. The flight hasn’t arrived in Frankfurt yet. OY!
That's pretty much the way I fly these days. I dress is loose fitting clothes--sweats if I'm going to colder climes, gym shorts and t-shirt for warmer climes, with slippers and a small travel bag. All other baggage checked. It's just not worth the headache to get partially undressed (remove belts, jewelery, shoes, hat, etc.) and try to load everything in a scanner bucket to get through security.
If I'm going to be required to remove my belt, empty my pockets, remove my shoes, turn around and do the hokey pokey, formal attire is not going to be a feasible outfit for air travel.
“Newark. Argghh...that place is a pit.’
Reminds of Woody Allen’s definition of God: An all-loving force pervading the entire universe except certain parts of New Jersey.
Hope you have heard from your son by now.
What an awful situation!
Flight status shows his flight as having landed...finally. He has a cellphone that only works in Germany, so I couldn’t communicate with him last night. I had to wait for him to call from a payphone (remember those!?). He hasn’t called from Germany...yet. He still has to make his way from Frankfurt to Baumholder, I think via train.
A man who caused a security breach at Newark Liberty International Airport, causing major delays and grounding flights for six hours, left about 20 minutes after he walked the wrong way through a security checkpoint, the Transportation Security Administration said Monday.
Someone picking up a passenger told an officer guarding the exit that he thought he saw a man enter through the doors Sunday, TSA spokeswoman Ann Davis said. TSA reviewed surveillance video before sweeping the airport, she said.
The video confirmed the man had entered through the exit, and officials made passengers leave the terminal and be rescreened.
The video also showed the man leaving the terminal through another exit about 20 minutes later, Davis said, although it was unclear when authorities learned the man had left.
“We have to operate under the assumption that he’s still in the sterile area,” Davis said. “We have to ensure that he hadn’t introduced anything to the sterile area.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9471569
People have been dressing down long before 9-11 ... flip flops, shorts and tank tops were around 25 years ago in airports. The original comment about airline terminals looking more like bus stations stands.
And how are ya planning on doing that?
Any today news on this lockdown? I have a friend’s son flying out today there.
The simpler solution used by airports I've been in is to post a security guard at the exit points whose sole and undoubtedly mind-numbingly boring job is to dissuade anyone from trying to re-enter the sterile area.
I have to wonder at the quality and positioning of their video cameras in Newark that they couldn't just lock down the terminal, print a screen shot, and walk through the terminal until someone recognized the guy's face.
It's gloriously fixed up. The crummy little Smith terminal building was finally reduced to the pile of rubble into which it had been slowly descending for years, and a beautiful mile-long terminal building, complete with a tram system, was constructed to replace it.
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