Wrong Turn?
This could have been worse - especially after the recent vehicle deaths overseas:
- A man was charged Friday after the Chicago Police Department Bomb Squad was called to O'Hare International Airport as a precaution to investigate a semi truck parked outside Terminal 3.
Alexander Lavrentyev, 35, has been charged with one misdemeanor count of reckless conduct and traffic citations, Chicago police said.
Officers observed an unattended semi parked in an unauthorized area at about 3:50 a.m. Friday, authorities said. They could not find the driver. There was a heavy police presence in the departure area during the morning rush., but the investigation did not affect airport operations.
Police had the truck towed to another location. The vehicle was eventually cleared after "no dangerous materials were found," police said.
In this day and age, how is a semi-tractor trailer even allowed near a passenger terminal? Should there be numerous warning signs? Diversion ramps? Police presence? Maybe a low bridge as a final barricade to stop a truck outside of what we'd term a "sensitive" area? It's not like you couldn't fill a truck with ammonium nitrate and fuel oil. Or 20 guys with machetes, vests and weaponry.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
60 Comments:
EPFest could use some hardened barriers....Come on Napps
This was definitely a test. Maybe even a dry run.
How? Because this is Chicago, that's how...safety, preparation and training are a joke here, they only care about stealing money and railroading the "evil" police.
Signed: 20 year Cpd
We are in Chicago, where issues like this are only addressed AFTER a catastrophe happens. Until then its see no evil, hear no evil.
C'mon, Banned for law abiding citizens....criminals don't obey the rules
The aviation police should have been called out with their water guns & whistles. The airport will be screwed if an attack comes..
Easy picking for terrorist. We are so fukking stupid it is laughable.
The Law – 720 ILCS 5/12-5. A person commits Reckless Conduct when he or she, by any means lawful or unlawful, recklessly performs an act or acts that: Causes bodily harm to or endangers the safety of another person; or. Causes great bodily harm or permanent disability or disfigurement to another person.
Why are they charging him for parking violation no crime how did he endanger the safety of another person or cause bodily harm?
What are we going to do call the bomb squad for every parked truck? Poor driver is getting railroaded parking violation at most not reckless conduct. Foreign or out of state drivers can easily make a wrong turn onto 190.
With all of the (con)[des]truction happening at ohare semis passing thru terminals aren't all that uncommon. Parked on the other hand......thank god we have aviation police..........oh yeah. We don't
Well, O'Hare is part of the sanctuary city. A person can drive revoked or suspended, park their vehicle anywhere they want and not worry about prosecution because Foxxx has stated she is not about to have her "crew" enforce traffic laws either. Besides, when something catastrophic happens Queen Sugar and King Snowflake will just blame it on the lack of funds from government.
Uh?
No one noticed the truck driving past their post?
Give you some advice for the future?
A lot of pious Muslims are up all night during Ramadan, because that is when they are allowed to eat and drink.
Terrorism is not a 9-5 job.
This is Chicago. Strange and unusual things can happen in Chicago.
Beruit marine barracks here Rham...
Trucks that size are indeed allowed at O'Hare Airport but they divert to the lower levels to make deliveries. They're cleared prior to entry normally. This person was subject to a nervous breakdown. Those open road truck drivers with their history of amphetamines Etc, no surprise
He was found in the 12th district at Madison & Ashland Ave. That's far from O'hare.
OT: To the PPO's that when asked to help us setup the barriers around the command center at the Air and Water Show on Friday I say thank you for your help. For those of you that stood around after being asked to help by some bosses while everyone else sweat their asses off, shame on you. Then the millennials wonder why people always say that they're lazy.
Might have been a "heat" run??
What about all the cameras?
It's easier to find a a honest politician at O'Hare than a Chicago Police officer.
Look at the driver's name. He could be a Godless Communist.
If you are assigned to the airport, you should be embarrassed. Take your job serious or retire already. Too many connected people entrusted with the public safety of our airports. Too many 60 year old "I can't wait to retire" patrolmen and too many "I am too scared to work a beat car" patrolmen hiding within the airport units. I've been to the airport many times and see more presence by the TSA and parking enforcement agents than CPD. Occasionally I see officers hanging out just past the tsa checkpoint. Very sad. Nothing against riding out your final years on the department there, but the safety of the lives of many people including police families are entrusted to you officers. Just like mass transit, please take your jobs serious or step aside and let someone else do it for you. Wear the badge with pride and do what you are paid to do! Serve and protect!
Not a cop
Dry run?
Dry run to test response.
Some ugly I told you sos are coming, and a lot of carnage death and destruction too.
So sad it is that so many refuse to listen now....choosing instead to bury their heads in tge sand.
Tractor tailors come in and out of there all night long. Thats how all the deliveries are
made to the restaurant and other vendors there. Most are made during the night to
early morning when the arrivals are very slop and there aren't a lot of people there.
But I do agree that something needs to be done. Maybe all trucks checked BEFORE
they are allowed to proceed into the airport
When I used to work midnight TSA, which by the way was 100% easier money then VRI, 18 wheelers that made several wrong turns were always going thru on the departure level.
Face it, the city & surroundings are ripe for an incident. Various authorities continuously mouth meaningless words of assurance that sufficient security measures are in place. And then it happens. And once the carnage is cleaned up those same authorities appear again telling us the same thing, except this time they really really mean it.
It's all BS.
(OT) Watch this video about the carjacking and listen near the end where the reporter says the best advice police are giving our do not stay in your car to lawn sitting you may be a victim of a carjacking great advice and the mayor is still eating the cheese and drinking the wine and laughing idiots should be marching in City Hall with all the killings murder and carjackings!
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/crime/274795738-story
loading a semi's trailer with a platoon of semi-trained killers with weapons (even in designated Gun Free Zones)is a dang good idea which am sure ISIS has already thought of or they certainly will now :)
If Chicongo is a Gun Free Zone, an Atomic Bomb Free Zone, why not a Terror Free Zone ?? That would stop them for sure
Another example of Chicago's "Illusion" of security and a police presence! As with the CTA, cameras are NOT being monitored 24/7, and they will not Stop motivated offenders. I am confident, that the shooting this week on the CTA, downtown, was not viewed in Real Time by the CTA personnel monitoring those cameras. A camera is not going to deter a subject who believes that by detonating his explosive vest he is going to be in paradise with 72 virgins! (Even if a few have facial hair.) The Reality is that there are not enough police personnel to protect any of our public transportation venues, including the airports. The fiasco with the physician being forcibly removed from the airplane, in fact exposed that layer of the security at O'Hare was also an illusion. Many civilians mistakenly thought that the Aviation Police were in fact armed police; instead it was shown, that they were not, and are now merely unarmed security. This incident should serve as a WARNING as to the vulnerability that we have allowed to exist. And it is all part of the Corruption and Cronyism that we Accept as Da Shitcaga Way of life and doing business. Baby "G"
The muslims are making millions off us taxpayers no need for a terrorist attack.
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This guy was born in Estonia, and got locked up again, actually tazered 3 hours after he got out. Drive from Washington State, something not right with this whole scenario....
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I am retired from the airport detail. Believe me, we begged for signs and better protection for the passengers. It all fell on deaf ears, unless someone gonna make money on it. The TSA who run the airport are really bad, they just want to get along and really do not want to stir up anything.
When I travel to other airports, I marvel at how much better they are then CPD at O'Hare.
8/19/2017 06:08:00 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
OT: To the PPO's that when asked to help us setup the barriers around the command center at the Air and Water Show on Friday I say thank you for your help. For those of you that stood around after being asked to help by some bosses while everyone else sweat their asses off, shame on you. Then the millennials wonder why people always say that they're lazy.
Instead of asking for someone else to setup the barriers, maybe those bosses could have done it or have their staff or drivers do it.
Probably not the first time a (foreign born?) trucker got lost at O'Hare ... in the terminal area.
I'm assuming O'Hare feels he was lost, missed his exit or making a delivery?
Goofy signage and perhaps reading skills or GPS error causes this.
Some less than tolerant agencies call this a Dry Run.
In Welcoming Chicago its called a hiccup.
Was the minimum wage checkpoint charlie asleep?
With all the signage scattered about coming into O'Hare even seasoned and alert drivers find it confusing to locate tollway extension ramps.
No study on that issue, just LED lights and RahmWelcome signs.
If anything, the Taxis are the real horror waiting to happen.
Anonymous said...
EPFest could use some hardened barriers....Come on Napps
8/19/2017 12:05:00 AM
How about it? And whats with the tarot card readers being allowed in? We are approving of gypsy con artists now?
OT: To the PPO's that when asked to help us setup the barriers around the command center at the Air and Water Show on Friday I say thank you for your help. For those of you that stood around after being asked to help by some bosses while everyone else sweat their asses off, shame on you. Then the millennials wonder why people always say that they're lazy.
You may be a millenial too, most don't realize millenials are basically from the late 1970's up until the mid 1990's.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
This was definitely a test. Maybe even a dry run.
8/19/2017 12:06:00 AM
What kind of clearing process was used on the rig after the tow? Just a peek through the open doors, or was it checked out for any residual toxins or radioactivity? Russian last name, born in late '81 or 1st 8 months of '82. When did he immigrate from Russia? Where else did he pass through on his way here?
Chechen? Gotta watch out for those guys; they did the grammar school in Beslan.
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
The Law – 720 ILCS 5/12-5. A person commits Reckless Conduct when he or she, by any means lawful or unlawful, recklessly performs an act or acts that: Causes bodily harm to or endangers the safety of another person; or. Causes great bodily harm or permanent disability or disfigurement to another person.
Why are they charging him for parking violation no crime how did he endanger the safety of another person or cause bodily harm?
8/19/2017 01:05:00 AM
Maybe read the arrest report if you want to know the probable cause?
When I pull up to let family or friends and their luggage off at a terminal, I have about a minute or two before terminal workers are yelling for me to move along or get towed. Semi can pull up, park, driver get out and walk away, something amiss here.
Stay fetal.
I don't fly but still this is concerning.
No cameras?
Anonymous said...
Might have been a "heat" run??
8/19/2017 06:32:00 AM
OH, cool, a tv word.
Just call a practice run a practice run.
In a pinch, you can change it up and use 'dry run'.
Anonymous said...
What are we going to do call the bomb squad for every parked truck? Poor driver is getting railroaded parking violation at most not reckless conduct. Foreign or out of state drivers can easily make a wrong turn onto 190.
8/19/2017 01:08:00 AM
You have GOT to be our resident troll, but in case you aren't...
Yes, a truck can take a wrong turn, but the driver can't park in front of terminal 3 and abandon it there. He wasn't in the truck. He wasn't 20 feet away. He was many miles away. Full of explosives, that truck could have destroyed the main part of that terminal and hundreds of people.
Where were the TRAFFIC AIDES ??????? , they should of been out there , No they were inside the terminal having Coffee sitting around laughing out loud doing nothing , there job is to direct these truck drivers and should have been out there on the drive to see if anyone Parks there truck or Vehicle and leaves it , What a joke
Was there any cargo in this guy's trailer? Did he have a manifest or any reason to be near the ohare area? Definitely sounds like a good ploy to see who and how long the response would be. Chicago will never " stay woke"
watch out for monday when all eyes are looking skyward.
You may be a millenial too, most don't realize millenials are basically from the late 1970's up until the mid 1990's.
Mellenials begin in th 1980's, prior to the 1980's are called gen x'ers
Anonymous Anonymous said...
(OT) Watch this video about the carjacking and listen near the end where the reporter says the best advice police are giving our do not stay in your car to lawn sitting you may be a victim of a carjacking great advice and the mayor is still eating the cheese and drinking the wine and laughing idiots should be marching in City Hall with all the killings murder and carjackings!
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/crime/274795738-story
8/19/2017 09:11:00 AM
Now that is hilarious great advice CPD idiots "stay out of your car or you may be a carjacking victim if waiting"! So that would mean if your waiting for someone stand outside your car and just get robbed,shot,and beaten and then your vehicle is taken,maybe as a bonus the animals can run you over this is total lunacy brought to us by the mindless morons at cpd!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Where were the TRAFFIC AIDES ??????? , they should of been out there , No they were inside the terminal having Coffee sitting around laughing out loud doing nothing , there job is to direct these truck drivers and should have been out there on the drive to see if anyone Parks there truck or Vehicle and leaves it , What a joke
They are ALWAYS out there telling you to move when you drop someone off or go to pick someone up. They are always there and it's getting to be a pain in the ass. Wish they were in the terminals
There are no traffic aides on the first watch, probably only one or two working cars on patrol. Don't forget, the airport is huge. You can go from York road to River road on calls,
A low bridge might keep semi's out, but what about other lower-profile vehicles? Vans? Cars? All of those can be utilized for nefarious purposes, and en masse they equate to the same capacity as a semi...
Anytime I drop off a passenger at Ohare the traffic aides scream at the drivers like wild wilder beasts to move along. You almost have to fly dump a person when dropping him off. Chicago is so unprepared for a terrorist attack but Rahm is on tv saying we are well trained to handle anything. Did I miss some training?
Might have been a "heat" run??
8/19/2017 06:32:00 AM
OH, cool, a tv word.
Just call a practice run a practice run.
In a pinch, you can change it up and use 'dry run'.
8/19/2017 04:10:00 PM
Now I'm the dry heaves.
You may be a millenial too, most don't realize millenials are basically from the late 1970's up until the mid 1990's.
8/19/2017 12:37:00 PM
By definition "born early 80's to mid-90's" or for the math impaired about 22-35 years old.
Any airport security is just smoke and mirrors. You get screened by TSA (remove your shoes, take out your change, no liquids - impressive vigilance, right?), but then you eat at any restaurant and you are handed a KNIFE and fork! Why the heck do we need security?
The demographic cohort "Millennial" aka Generation Y, are those born from 1977 to 1995, but there is not cast in stone rule book. After 1996 we see Generation Z.
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