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.

Free Steven Slater!

Spectacular. That's how some are describing his "take this job and shove it" moment yesterday at JFK airport. For those who may not have heard, Slater was (we're guessing was as this is just too classic for him to keep his job no doubt) a flight attendant on Jet Blue airlines. As a plane from Pittsburgh was taxied up to the terminal yesterday a female passenger decided she wasn't waiting like everyone else to get her bags from the overhead. She decided she was too good for everyone else. As he was trained to do, Slater asked the woman to wait to get her bags from the overhead. Slater was met with a "F*ck You" from the woman who continued to rummage around the overhead until her bag came down hitting Slater in the head. He asked for an apology and was again met with a profanity (supposedly "motherf*cker").

That was pretty much it for Slater who walked back to the cabin PA system and announced "To the passenger who called me a motherf*cker, f*ck you... I've been in the business 28 years. I've had it. That's it."

Then came one of the coolest "I quit" moments in all of "I quit."

Slater grabbed two beers from the beverage area, opened the emergency exit, activated the emergency exit slide and slid away to freedom. Slater allegedly ran across the tarmac, ran inside, tore off his tie and then grabbed the AirTrain monorail to the JetBlue parking lot and was gone.

This is a new kind of awesome we tell ya.

Slater was later arrested at his home in Queens and charged with reckless endangerment and criminal mischief.

Free Steven Slater!

Well, we've had friends driving LIRR trains, kids driving MTA Subway trains so why not children landing planes at JFK?

What could possibly go wrong? Now before we freak anybody out, the kid is well coached by no doubt a parent but how would YOU feel if you were able to hear what the captains of the flights heard recently coming into and going out of JFK? Did Johnny miss 'bring your kids to work and day and let them run the air traffic controls at one of this county's largest airports with one of the busiest air traffic volumes'?

Have a listen and tell us your thoughts.