New Jersey Teen Sneaks to the Top of the World Trade Center and Tweets About it

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Casquejo and WTC
On early Sunday morning, Justin Casquejo (PeekYou profile here), a wiry New Jersey teenager with a taste for parkour and dangerous climbs, managed to sneak past a purportedly impregnable security system, and scale his way to the top of the unfinished 1 World Trade Center tower (in PeekYou’s hometown of NYC).

Casquejo is said to have squeezed through a small hole in the site’s exterior construction fence, and then scaled scaffolding, eventually somehow gaining access to the building’s interior. During his travels, Justin did apparently come upon a guard on the building’s 104th floor. The guard has been described as having been “inattentive” (it’s actually believed he was asleep). The guard has since been fired.

Upon completing his treacherous ascent, and prior to getting arrested, Justin simply tweeted the word “Inspired”.

A more detailed account of all that transpired can be found via this Gizmodo piece here.