Holy Security Breach!
In general, I believe it is a good thing that security has been tightened at many facilities across the world to thwart an attack by terrorists.
In general, I believe much of the security tightening is quite horrifyingly laughable.
Case in point: ‘Batman’ protester scales Buckingham Palace.
Fathers 4 Justice members said [Jason] Hatch [who dressed as Batman] and an accomplice dressed as Batman’s partner, Robin, had climbed a palace perimeter fence while fellow protesters distracted police by creating a disturbance at the palace’s front gate.
Matt O’Connor, the group’s spokesman, said Hatch and the man in the Robin costume, Dave Pyke, used an extendable aluminum ladder to climb the side of the palace to the balcony.
Pyke said he came down when he’d climbed halfway up the ladder because a police officer threatened to shoot him, but no one detained him and he walked away. Police apprehended him later. He said it had been “unbelievably easy” to breach security.
“We are totally untrained; we are just ordinary guys. If we can get in there anybody can,” he said.
So British security did not notice the two comic book heroes carrying the ladder across the lawn of Buckingham Palace? It is amazing to me that the two were only carrying a ladder.
And what is going on with the fact that “Robin” was not detained immediately?
I would like to believe that security on this side of the Atlantic is much better, but I somehow doubt it.