{"id":177828,"date":"2026-03-27T23:28:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/177828\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T23:28:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:28:21","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-brooklyn-man-goes-viral-after-airport-interview-makes-it-to-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/177828\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Brooklyn man goes viral after airport interview; makes it to the Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Scali went viral earlier this week after appearing on News 12 during coverage of ICE agents at JFK and LaGuardia airports.<\/p>\n<p>Scali, who is from Brooklyn, said at the time, &#8220;As long as they can check my bags and get me on my flight, I&#8217;m good to go. Right? I wanna get to the Bahamas. I want out of here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His soundbites quickly gained traction on social media, racking up tens of thousands of likes and comments.<\/p>\n<p>News 12 caught up with Scali again after he arrived in the Bahamas to talk about his sudden rise to social media stardom.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on his experience at the airport, Scali described it as, &#8220;Easy-breezy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Scali went viral earlier this week after appearing on News 12 during coverage of ICE agents at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[69737,98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-177828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-airport-wait-times","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}