In the year 2003, a Bryn Mawr College student, Janet Lee, attempted to board an airliner with several flour-filled condoms. She claimed that her classmates and she used the soft and squishy condoms as stress relievers. They would give them a squeeze to ease their tension.
She must not have ever listened to the news or read a paper if she didn’t know that drug smugglers tend to fill condoms with cocaine and heroin and use mules who swallow the condoms in order to get the illegal drugs into the Country.
She was astonished when she was arrested at the Philadelphia airport and then jailed for three weeks until the lab could verify that the substance was indeed flour as she had claimed it was.
Unfortunately for the city of Philadelphia she smartened up and strapped them with a lawsuit for wrongful detention and was awarded $180,000 in January, 2007.
You can bet she’ll never make that mistake again!
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Dumb indeed, I wonder how many numpty’s will try the same thing in an effort to get money from their own wrongful arrest law suit? Silly, but you never know!