Woman settles case over flour-filled condoms
 

Woman settles case over flour-filled condoms

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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070108/od_nm/condoms_dc

I'm going to guess with a last name like "lee".....philly wanted to settle a civil rights case quick

fuckyeah..im filling up some balloons with flour now...im goign on a lot of flights

Thats crazy they should've known when they first look at it, not take 3 weeks to test. 3 weeks in prison proberly didn't seem that bad after she got $180,000

Thats crazy they should've known when they first look at it, not take 3 weeks to test. 3 weeks in prison proberly didn't seem that bad after she got $180,000

Thats crazy they should've known when they first look at it, not take 3 weeks to test. 3 weeks in prison proberly didn't seem that bad after she got $180,000

Thats crazy they should've known when they first look at it, not take 3 weeks to test. 3 weeks in prison proberly didn't seem that bad after she got $180,000

1ancelot..please let us know how you really feel

Sorry internet problem

...why did it take three weeks for them to realize it was flour?

Three weeks to test the powder. That's efficient.