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Chatty Newark Airport Guard May Have Been Distracted by Phone
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John Del Signore
Published Jan 6, 2010
Modified Jan 6, 2010
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Did a TSA guard's cell phone conversation enable an unidentified man to pass through a secure exitway at Newark Airport Sunday? Sources tell the Daily News that surveillance video shows the guard chatting on his cell phone at the moment of the trespass. The TSA tells NY1 that's simply not true, but we look forward to seeing this video anyway (preferably at high speed to the tune of "Yakety Sax"). After wandering past the guard, video shows the man, who appears to be Asian, meeting up with a woman in a white coat, then leaving from another exit about 20 minutes after he entered.
Chat or no chat, the guard has been reassigned to non-screening duties pending the outcome of an investigation. And yesterday Newark doubled security at every exit, so that now there will be two TSA guards watching all Terminal C exits—because this sort of thing could never happen at Terminal B or A exits.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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