{"id":686,"date":"2006-02-13T07:32:46","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T15:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/if_they_cant_stop_a_drunk_holiday_reveler_they_certainly_wont_be_looking_for_my_rental_truck_full_of_fertilizer_and_gasoline_now_will_they.html"},"modified":"2006-02-13T07:32:46","modified_gmt":"2006-02-13T15:32:46","slug":"if_they_cant_st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/if_they_cant_st.html","title":{"rendered":"If They Can&#8217;t Stop A Drunk Holiday Reveler, They Certainly Won&#8217;t Be Looking For My Rental Truck Full Of Fertilizer And Gasoline Now, Will They?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s utilities and vital infrastructure are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/61791.htm\">well-protected and impenetrable<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>After Con Ed largely ignored NYPD pleas to beef up security at the city&#8217;s largest power plant, a drunken holiday reveler managed to break into the massive facility and stumble around for two hours in an embarrassing breach that has outraged some lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If they can&#8217;t stop a drunk from wandering into the site, how will they stop a well-organized terrorist?&#8221; asked Democratic Assemblyman Michael Gianaris, an outspoken critic of security at the Charles Poletti power plant, just blocks from his office.<\/p>\n<p>Officials will meet tomorrow for a security sit-down at Queens Borough Hall, where they&#8217;ll hash out the incident involving the boozed-up buffoon coming from a Christmas party who somehow got past security at the energy complex on Dec. 19 at about 1 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>He was confronted by a plant worker, ran away, and then wandered around the sprawling site in Astoria, the site of massive power and transmission equipment and a huge tank of highly explosive liquefied natural gas.<\/p>\n<p>A security guard finally grabbed the trespassing tippler about 3 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve taken appropriate steps,&#8221; said Michael Saltzman, a spokesman for the New York Power Authority, whose security finally spotted the man and called police.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s utilities and vital infrastructure are well-protected and impenetrable: After Con Ed largely ignored NYPD pleas to beef up security at the city&#8217;s largest power plant, a drunken holiday reveler managed to break into the massive facility and stumble around for two hours in an embarrassing breach that has outraged some lawmakers. &#8220;If they can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-makes_jack_bauer_scream_dammit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}