Flour gets college freshman 3 weeks in jail and $500,000 bail

[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

She was a freshman on an academic scholarship at Bryn Mawr College, preparing to fly home to California for Christmas, sleep-deprived, with questions from a calculus exam still racing through her head.

In the space of a few hours on Dec. 21, 2003, Janet Lee landed in a Philadelphia jail cell, where she would remain for three weeks, held on $500,000 bail and facing 20 years in prison on drug charges.

All over flour found in her luggage.

"I haven't let myself be angry about what happened, because it would tear me apart," Lee said. "I'm not sure I can bear to face it... . I'm amazed at how naive I was."

That naivete, she said, began when screeners at Philadelphia International Airport inspecting her checked luggage found three condoms filled with white powder. Lee laughed and told city police they were filled with flour. It was just part of a phallic gag at a women's college, she told them, a stress-reliever, something to squeeze while studying for exams.

The police didn't find it funny. They told her a field test showed that the powder contained opium and cocaine.

A lab test later proved the substance was flour - and no one now disputes that Lee is innocent, including the prosecutor.

But the case returned to the courts last week as Lee filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit against city police. The lawsuit seeks damages for pain and suffering, financial loss, and emotional distress.

They were filled with flour, she said, and were silly stress-relief contraptions that she had made with classmates as part of a freshman rite of passage in her Main Line dorm.

'It's A Girl Thing'

"I tried to explain that it was a joke, a gag gift for friends. It's a girl thing. I said, 'You squeeze them to reduce stress.' "

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n2019/a01.html

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[95ZJ 10+ year member]

I'd sue those bastards.

 

[dkmesa 10+ year member]

keep dat ***** in jail...**** drug smugglers //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[trevor87 5,000+ posts]

lawl pwnt

 

[Platestacker45 10+ year member]

First is was a "gag" and then it was something to relieve stress? She keeps changing her stories. AND it tested positive for Opium and Cocaine! Wonderful thing to bring threw the airport security... dumb bishes...

 

[2kchevy06civic 5,000+ posts]

with the way that airports are checking bags these days, I'm not surprised they didn't find it funny.

 

[bballrrt06 10+ year member]

First is was a "gag" and then it was something to relieve stress? She keeps changing her stories. AND it tested positive for Opium and Cocaine! Wonderful thing to bring threw the airport security... dumb bishes...

how can a field test show opium and cocaine and then lab not show anything?

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

how can a field test show opium and cocaine and then lab not show anything?

They have a guy who shoots some of it up and a guy of snorts some of it and they tell you what's in it....

BTW Flour doesn't even look like cocaine or heroin.... Go figure... Defiantly doesn't taste like it...

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

They have a guy who shoots some of it up and a guy of snorts some of it and they tell you what's in it....
BTW Flour doesn't even look like cocaine or heroin.... Go figure... Defiantly doesn't taste like it...

Old flour at the bottom of the can kinda does....that off white color...but coke is harder than flour. It doesn't crumble the same

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

Old flour at the bottom of the can kinda does....that off white color...but coke is harder than flour. It doesn't crumble the same

No kidding.... Doesn't look anything like a ball of fire or something..... That shit is hard....

 

[davesexplorer 10+ year member]

****.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

she should have caught a case.