Several Very Good Reason To Never Pack Condoms In Your Checked Baggage

As a joke, a college freshman packed three condoms filled with flour into her checked baggage and as a result she was arrested on December 21, 2003 and was held for three weeks and had faced up to 20 years in prison if she had been convicted of drug charges.

Now, two years later and near the end of the statute of limitations, she has filed a federal lawsuit seeking damages for pain and suffering, financial loss and emotional distress. Interesting.

Ok, tests initially showed that the flour filled condoms contained traces of opium and cocaine and that prompted authorities to arrest the young lady. Later tests did confirm that the substance was indeed, just plain old flour and she was released and charges dropped. Being a reasonable and compassionate person, I can understand how traumatic it must have been for the young lady, after all she was just going home for the holidays and ends up in jail for three weeks being held on serious drug charges. But she needs to take some personal responsibility here. Am I the only one who can see that packing flour filled condoms into airline baggage is just plain stupid? It doesn't matter that it was only flour, you are asking for trouble.

Now she wants to sue over a situation that she created. And I am under the impression that this crafty Asian devil knew what she was doing all along. Her story reeks of something fishy but I am to angry to go on. I am just fed up with people who are either truly ignorant or devious and looking to work an angle. All I can say is that she got what she deserved, it was a stupid thing to do and I for one believe she knew what was going to happen.

The original story was in today's Oregonian and can be read here---> Mistaken Drug Bust