Off-Season Security Measures a Concern for Teams

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Fans have tested the security staffs in more than one professional baseball park this season by gaining access to the field during games, but news that two men had broken into Pittsburgh's Heinz Field (with the help of a third) and been chased across the football gridiron by police early Sunday morning got me thinking about off-season security measures.

According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Shazad Hosi Mehta, 28, of Elmhurst, Ill., Adil A. Minocherhomjee, 22, of La Jolla, Calif., and Neville Noshir Medhora, 27, of Austin, Texas, were arrested at gunpoint and charged with criminal trespass and conspiracy to commit criminal trespass. Read what you will into their foreign-sounding names and far-flung hometowns; I wanted to know how any three individuals could, in these post-9/11 United States, simply use each other as human ladders to scale a fence and enter a major sports venue, with the luxury of enough time to breach Heinz Field's Gate A after an initial attempt at Gate B had failed.

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