Woman Settles Suit in Flour Condoms Case

[ashling]

From Associated Press
January 04, 2007 4:16 PM EST
PHILADELPHIA - A woman who was arrested and jailed for three weeks on drug charges for what turned out to be flour-filled condoms has settled a lawsuit against the city for $180,000.

"Under the circumstances, something went terribly wrong," Janet H. Lee's attorney, Jeffrey Ibrahim, said Wednesday. "We're trying to ensure that nothing like that ever happens again."

Lee was a freshman at Bryn Mawr College in 2003 when she tried to take three condoms filled with flour in her carry-on bag on a flight to Los Angeles. They were discovered by airport screeners, and authorities said initial tests showed they contained drugs. Lee was held for 21 days on drug trafficking charges until later tests showed she was telling the truth.

Lee said the flour-filled condoms were a phallic toy students would squeeze to deal with exam stress, and she thought they were funny and packed them to show friends at home. Lee, now a 21-year-old senior, said she did not know that drug dealers often carry drugs in condoms.

[Deja Q]

1. Um, they have these hackey-sack stress balls at the computer store for $5 each...

and there's something really wrong here if one has to load up a condom with flour... why not give them my address instead? :rofl:

[Orrex]

2. And she had a Magnum full of champagne, too

A big one, at that.

[Orrex]

4. Or maybe that's how she gets her dough to rise

Stop me before I pontificate again.

[Orrex]

6. Sounds like a great way to get a yeast infection

Hello? Anything?

[Orrex]

7. Another innocent defloured by our police state

Bueller? Bueller?

[Orrex]

8. Further evidence that condoms are urgently kneaded

So lonely...

[mainegreen]

3. Initial tests showed flour as drugs? Are they using monkeys in their labs?

Because flour should not show up as a drug.
Unless their tests are very poorly designed tests indeed.

Edited to add I mean are monkeys performing these tests, not are they performing tests on monkeys!

[philosophie_en_rose]

5. How is flour confused with drugs?

:shrug: