JFK's $100 million dollar state-of-the-art security system beaten by man in a life jacket

You know how companies spend millions and millions on how great they are and how forward thinking they are and in some cases what an integral part of a safe America they are. Then, when their false bravado is laid bare they hide, they say nothing.

That's where we come in, to make sure you know THEY messed up.

Daniel Casillo was tooling around Jamaica Bay on his jet ski when it ran out of gas. That put Casillo in a pinch and he needed to get somewhere he wouldn't drown. He swam to Kennedy Airport's runway 4L which sticks out into the bay. After crawling from the water, with his yellow life jacket on he climbed an 8 foot security fence to try and find help. Airport security estimates Casillo walked across two intersecting runways and traveled two MILES around JFK before an airport employee called security.

Yes, back to security and that integral part of keeping America safe. Raytheon, who made the perimeter intrusion detection system at JFK, had no comment to the Associated Press on the fact their system failed to pick up a guy wandering around the runways in a BIG YELLOW LIFEJACKET. See that, no comment. When it comes to chest thumping, they'll lead the way. When someone beats a $100 million security system they had a big role in? *Crickets*

Hey JFK, Port Authority and Raytheon, somebody is calling your failure "catastrophic":

"The catastrophic failure was that nobody sounded the alarm to go to condition red intruder alert," said former New York City Detective Nicholas Casale, who was deputy director of security for counterterrorism at the New York metropolitan area's transit agency. 

"Immediately there should've been an armed response. Heavy weapons, armored cars to the area that the perimeter was breached. The airport should have been locked down."

The Port Authority and the police union have gone back and forth over this security system. The Port Authority says the system works (We here at the Jersey City Desk find when such large sums of money are involved oftentimes the smart way of doing things is discarded and trumped by bureaucrats). The police union says the best way to stop this very thing from happening is to have boots on the ground, ie patrols. After this fiasco which will no doubt put more money in somebody's pocket because nobody will ever just stand behind their product and fix what should have been working in the first place, we're in agreement with the police union. Pay proper men to do a proper job and stop thinking electronics can solve everything.