If you find him, shoot him

Ted Sherman has an article in The Star-Ledger about yet another idiot around airplanes:

A man who walked into a secure area triggered a terminal-wide lockdown at Newark Liberty International Airport last night, grounding outgoing planes and forcing hundreds of passengers to await rescreening, transportation authorities said. The incident occurred nine days after a failed terrorist attack on a Detroit-bound plane heightened tensions at the nation's airports and increased security restrictions.
Transportation Security Administration and airline officials said an unidentified man walked through the wrong side of a checkpoint exit around 5:20 p.m. TSA spokeswoman Ann Davis said authorities were reviewing video from airport cameras at the terminal, and were not sure whether the man went out the wrong way and then went back, or never went through screening.
"A male individual was observed walking the wrong way down an exit lane in Terminal C at Newark Liberty Airport," Davis said. "TSA was notified and we immediately halted screening at the security checkpoints in Terminal C and worked with the Port Authority to pull the surveillance tapes in the area to determine what transpired and see if we could identify the individual in question." The individual had not been located by late last night, the TSA said.
John Kelly, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates Newark Liberty, said the agency's police were assisting the TSA.
The incident immediately put a halt to all flights out of the terminal, including those with passengers who had already boarded and were awaiting takeoff. Outbound flights in Terminal C were held and passenger screening was halted. Around 7:45 p.m., TSA and the Port Authority started moving passengers from the so-called "sterile side" of the terminal to the public side, so they could re-screen them.
Aasmund and Line Skaar, who were returning to Houston from a visit with family in Norway, were in their seats with their two children aboard Continental Flight 405, when their flight was held. They remained on the aircraft for four hours before they were forced to get off and return to the terminal. "It's total chaos," Line Skaar said. Her husband said no one had given them any information about what was going on. "There have been different contradictory messages," he remarked.
Tom Nicolicchia of Flanders said he was returning home with four relatives on Continental Flight 1434 from Arizona, and they waited on the tarmac for about an hour before they were allowed to get off the plane. He said there was little information on the plane and people were calling relatives to find out what was happening. "The pilot said it was a security breach ... he told people with televisions that, if they found, out to let him know," Nicolicchia said.
Sitting on the floor near a baggage carousel, Debbie and Todd Wilson of Huntington Beach, California tried to keep their two-year-old son Ben occupied as they waited. They were returning home after visiting family in Tinton Falls and had been waiting to board their flight at Gate 133 when they learned there might be a problem. "It got real quiet when it came on the news," said Debbie Wilson. She added initial reports indicated only that there would be no flights coming in or out, but everyone assumed it was weather-related. Then they started to see a lot of security personnel.
Dipti Dua of Sterling, Virginia was at the terminal's security area seeing family off on a flight to India when they were all pushed down to the lower level. "They made us form a line which no longer exists," she said.
Governor Jon Corzine said the state had increased security measures for the holiday weekend, following the botched attempt to blow up the Detroit-bound airliner. The actions were a precaution, he said, noting there is no known threat to air traffic into and out of the state's airports. He indicated security personnel and procedures would be heightened as a precaution at Newark Liberty, train stations and NJ Transit facilities. Corzine could not be reached last night for comment.
Hours after the lockdown, passengers were waiting to be rescreened through security so they could board or reboard their flights. Meanwhile, a group of singers and songwriters traveling to Mumbai, India, from Nashville generated some smiles when one pulled out a guitar and they all started singing Creedence Clearwater Revival's Bad Moon Rising. When they were done, the whole second floor of the terminal erupted in applause. "Everybody seemed a little down," explained Josh Wilson, 26, the guitarist.