[robertpaulsen]

"The circumstance that "forced" the city to prosecute the woman in question was the city's use of an evidence lab that couldn't tell the difference between DEA Schedule I controlled substances and wheat flour."

I don't disagree. But what came before that was the "circumstance" of a dingbat attempting to "smuggle" three condoms filled with a white powder through an airport screener.

"You should go to work for them"

And you should go through airport security with a suitcase containing an innocent length of pipe, a battery, and some wires wrapped around them (to merely hold them together). You can explain they were for some friends.

While I'm in Phildelphia (raising their IQ), I'll visit you in prison -- you can tell me about how unfair life is.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

But what came before that was the "circumstance" of a dingbat attempting to "smuggle" three condoms filled with a white powder through an airport screener.

Why are you assigning motive? She wasn't attempting to smuggle anything---she was attempting to travel with three condoms filled with flour in her suitcase. The evidence proves precisely that.

The real story, as you agree, is that the Philadelphia police cannot tell cocaine from flour, and cannot staff their department with personnel able to tell the difference without the use of technology. This whole issue could've been cleared up by one person on scene with enough experience to tell coke from flour on sight/smell/taste alone. At $180,000, the city got off lightly.

[Oberon]

While I'm in Phildelphia (raising their IQ), I'll visit you in prison -- you can tell me about how unfair life is.

If you're in Philly and I'm in prison, we'll each have our own problems to deal with. =]