[SWAMPSNIPER]

What do they expect for 6 bucks an hour, professionals?

[Nathan Zachary]

"The guards were caught on tape sleeping on duty, secretly taped by a fellow officer."

I bet he's a real popular guy now. I wonder if 6 bucks a hour is worth the sleepless nights and that kink he's going to get in his neck from watching his back every where he goes in town

[Kirkwood]

D'oh!

[Nathan Zachary]

Epstein, chairman of a community nuclear watchdog group "Three Mile Island Alert" said the sleeping guards show nuclear plant owners should stop outsourcing security to private companies and instead rely on officers trained and managed by the Federal Government."

Yeah right. The government is so well known for it's efficiency and for running business. Epstein is clearly a nanny state liberal commie, who thinks the government should run everything.

[Tammy8]

I cannot even imagine this level of stupidity. When I went to college at the young age of 18 I was hired as campus security dispatcher. I took that job seriously, and would have never dreamed of sleeping on the job!! It is beyond my thought process that people charged with protecting a nuclear facility would simply sleep on the job.

[Herakles]

So some poorly paid guard fell asleep at the plant - big deal! We have thousands of people in ICE and Homeland security asleep at the switch every day and they have yet to protect the borders or the ports from a nuke coming into the country.

The fuel in that nuke plant isn’t going anywhere; but the nukes that have gotten across our borders are probably already down town.

Anyone want to go over and wake congress and the administration up?

At least the guard knew what he was doing and was doing it to the best of his ability and was doing it for hundreds of thousands of dollars less than our government bureaucrats!

[MarkT]

Why on earth did it take video to catch this problem? The company should have in place an affirmative response protocol such that each guard had to report verbally and visually to an off-site superior - no call, no sighting and superior assumes the worst and sets off the alarm. How tough is that?

[nin_kasi]

Wackenhut also guards Turkey Point here in Miami, making around $14 + per hour. Some ex-military, some former law enforcement, and some people you’d expect to just see guarding the mall.

By the way, this is related:
Three Mile Island Security Guard Caught Playing Games
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/5/30/100951.shtml?s=us