It's the kind of luck people only have in the movies. Just how did 16-year-old Justin Casquejo get past the NYPD, the Port Authority Police Department, and two private security companies to reach the top of 1 World Trade Center, the tallest building in the US, on Sunday? It was easy. A "WTC buff," according to the New York Post, Justin allegedly sneaked out of his New Jersey home around 4am and made his way to Ground Zero, where a crack in a barbed-wire fence proved large enough for the skinny teen to fit through. "I walked around the construction site and figured out how to access the Freedom Tower rooftop," Justin said, according to court papers. The rest was, apparently, a piece of cake.
He got a lift to the 88th floor, courtesy of an apparently unassuming union elevator operator—even though he didn't have ID—then climbed the rest of the way to the top, where he spent two hours taking pictures, and even climbed the building's spire, police say. As for the guard he slipped by on the 104th floor? He was snoozing and has since been fired, the Post reports. It was only on his way down that Justin was caught by a construction worker, police say. "He's a skinny kid who got through a skinny hole," a source added. He'll be charged with trespassing, a misdemeanor, the Star-Ledger notes, though he laughed off the adventure to the Post, calling the trip "inspired." Click for another impressive climb, this one caught on video. (More World Trade Center stories.)
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