Smoker bypasses security at JFK; flights delayed
Source: AP-Excite
NEW YORK (AP) Authorities say an airline passenger who took a cigarette break caused a security scare at New York City's Kennedy Airport that led to some flights delays.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says it happened late Saturday afternoon in Terminal 8 after the man had gone through security screening and then went out to smoke.
Port Authority spokesman Joe Pentangelo (pehn-TAN'-jeh-loh) says the passenger returned through a gate that wasn't open.
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BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)..into a closed room. "15 minutes later the young man was free to go. The security people went to the snack bar and ate most of the stock."
Cha
(295,543 posts)security system at airports and it was breeched.
Mahalo Steve
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)It all depends on which Oxen is schizen.
Cha
(295,543 posts)delay flights just for the hell of it.
Demit
(11,238 posts)Somebody in airport security left the gate unsecured. I'm sure you would agree that that's not good & that it should have been investigated. Or should we forgo security so that flights can leave on time?
mac56
(17,557 posts)He was just a poor innocent victim of oppression.
Demit
(11,238 posts)You evidently carry great animosity toward smokers. I'm not trying to put a damper on that. I'm just clarifying what happened in this situation.
Security didn't delay flights because they were using the time to punish or 'oppress' the 'poor innocent' smoker. They delayed flights because they were using the time to investigate the security breach that was revealed by the man being able to slip through it. A lapse in security that could have allowed someone to get through unnoticed and do something very, very bad.
If I had been in that airport I would have been glad that security discovered the breakdown of security before I boarded my plane. I guess you would rather have taken your chances.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Skittles
(152,918 posts)BumRushDaShow
(126,620 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,344 posts)Lenomsky
(340 posts)which tends to be min 2.5hrs up to 4.5hrs so I have a coffee and smoke then re-enter have some food and a beer then exit and so on and so forth. I can exit 3 maybe even 4 times so that's 3-4 times TSA need to check me.
Why not pander to smokers and have small areas external (as used to be the case in some airports) but fenced in like a dog pound where the 10-15% (depends on nationality) of crazies can puff away without leaving the security area
Day 14 on my vaporiser only had 20 cigs total not purchased any in 2 weeks rather than 280 min purchase. I pray this thing keeps me off the evil weed.
Cheers