Only in the US, eh?

[LonelyGhost]

Woman settles case over flour-filled condoms

Mon Jan 8, 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.

 

[Sonny]

Three weeks in a jail is really a very bad time to which a relative of mine can attest (he did only three days over a weekend on a minor and later dropped charge). At $180,000 she settled cheap.

 

[FuZzYknUckLeS]

Three weeks in a jail is really a very bad time to which a relative of mine can attest (he did only three days over a weekend on a minor and later dropped charge). At $180,000 she settled cheap.

Ya man. The food is fuckin' horrible.

 

[gravitas]

At $180,000 she settled cheap.

But by winning any judgement she's getting rewarded for stupidity. Who tries to get onto a plane with condoms filled with a white powder? She should be billed for what ever costs were incurred by security and the courts for dealing with the incident.

 

[visioneast]

That's why they call America "the land of opportunity"!!!

God bless America!!!

 

[SFMIKE]

You had better believe that if she went to Bryn Mawr her daddy has big bucks and was probably the lawyer who handled the settlement.