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$180,000 For Stupidity...; ...On both sides
Topic Started: Jan 8 2007, 03:47 PM (327 Views)
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Woman settles case over flour-filled condoms
Mon Jan 8, 2007 7:58 AM ET

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters Life!) - A U.S. college student imprisoned for three weeks for trying to take flour-filled condoms onto an airplane has settled her lawsuit against Philadelphia for $180,000, a city spokesman said on Friday.

Janet Lee, 21, a student at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, was arrested at Philadelphia International Airport in 2003 after police and security officials thought the flour was an illegal drug.

She was held in Philadelphia on drug-trafficking charges and released only when tests proved the substance in the three condoms was flour.

The condoms, which are sometimes used to smuggle drugs, were a joke among the students, and Lee was taking them home to Los Angeles.

Her civil rights case against Philadelphia, which had been set to go to trial on Thursday, was settled for $180,000, said Ted Qualli, spokesman for Philadelphia Mayor John Street.
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This is laughable :lol:
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This can be summed up in one word - organised crime
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Why settle, did they have grounds for reasonable suspicion for the arrest and deteinment, i would certainly say so.
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Jan 8 2007, 11:21 AM
Why settle, did they have grounds for reasonable suspicion for the arrest and deteinment, i would certainly say so.

Absolutely, but not for 3 weeks confinement. Everyone knows you can test a substance to find out how pure it is in seconds. More tax dollars wasted. :angry:
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It's a good lesson. Some things you just don't take the p*ss about.
Put a puppet on it.
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