Posted Mar 20, 2014, 10:37 PM
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New Yorker for life
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Borough of Jersey
Posts: 52,825
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Originally Posted by MikelAS
Alright, which one of you was it?
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I hope it wasn't one of you guys.
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Originally Posted by weidncol
Just imagine if that teen happened to be some sort of terrorist and had done something to the site. Thankfully, that didn't happen, but very scary to think about it.
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It's unacceptable really.
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Originally Posted by tubeworm
Pics/vid, or it never happened!
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This kid spend 2 hours up there!
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“He came here and he ran hog wild,” said a stunned WTC worker.
Casquejo, who lives in Weehawken, NJ, laughed the whole thing off Wednesday afternoon when The Post asked him about his escapade.
“Ha ha, oh yeah, that. Right. I would really love to talk to you guys because I have a lot that I want to say about it,” he said.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/21/ny...=nyregion&_r=0
Details Sought On How Youth Could Ascend Trade Center
By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ
MARCH 20, 2014
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Authorities are trying to determine how a 16-year-old New Jersey boy sneaked past security at 1 World Trade Center and spent two hours early Sunday making his way to the top of the 1,776-foot tower, which is still under construction.
Mr. Casquejo admitted breaking into the site, according to a criminal complaint.
“I found a way up through the scaffolding, climbed onto the sixth floor, and took the elevator up to the 88th floor,” he said, according to the complaint. “I then took the staircase up to the 104th floor. I went to the rooftop and climbed the ladder all the way to the antenna.”
Though Mr. Casquejo seemed to be nothing more than a young thrill seeker, the breach raised questions about the level of security at the site, which largely remains a construction zone more than 12 years after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 destroyed the original World Trade Center.
“We take security and these type of infractions extremely seriously and will prosecute violators,” Joseph Dunne, the Port Authority’s chief security officer, said in a statement. “We continue to reassess our security posture at the site and we are constantly working to make this site as secure as possible.”
Photos of Mr. Casquejo posted to his Twitter account show him and his friends scaling a crane overlooking the Manhattan skyline and posing on top of a bulldozer at a construction site. One photo shows someone doing a flip from a bridge into the water. He describes himself at one point as part of a parkour team, a reference to the gravity-defying urban sport that sometimes involves scaling buildings and other high structures.
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I'm sure this won't be his last attempt to get to the top of some skyscraper.
https://twitter.com/JustinCasquejo/s...737280/photo/1
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