Here's one for Randi, Booby trapped homeland security

[caligirl]

Obviously, they thought it was a boobytrap: Jenifer Winter, a professor at the University of Hawaii, received the Anna Kournikova anti-bounce bra she ordered from Britain only after it was intercepted, opened and examined by Homeland Security.

sfgate day in pictures

[rfranklin]

1. She should have it tested for bodily fluids...

heaven knows what they were doing with that bra.

[Sydnie]

2. Damn! that is unbelievable

I believe they did it but I don't want to believe they would do that. Can't even trust those Brits to send safe mail anymore, can we?

[caligirl]

3. second professor to have mail from overseas searched. A prof

of history in Lawrence Kansas also had his mail opened. It was from a person he had corresponded with for many many years. Phillippines.

[Scout1071]

4. Actually, I think it was a person from Mexico.

And he was so appalled that his man had been opened and read by US officials that he went straight to the newspaper. He said he expected his mail to be read in foreign countries, but never by American officials.

[caligirl]

5. No, it was a prof in kansas. Found an article here>

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10740935/

Updated: 5:55 p.m. ET Jan. 6, 2006


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WASHINGTON - In the 50 years that Grant Goodman has known and corresponded with a colleague in the Philippines he never had any reason to suspect that their friendship was anything but spectacularly ordinary.

But now he believes that the relationship has somehow sparked the interest of the Department of Homeland Security and led the agency to place him under surveillance.

Last month Goodman, an 81-year-old retired University of Kansas history professor, received a letter from his friend in the Philippines that had been opened and resealed with a strip of dark green tape bearing the words “by Border Protection” and carrying the official Homeland Security seal.

[Scout1071]

6. I meant the person sending our dear Professor the letter.

Either way, I was incorrect.

I work in Lawrence, KS and was pleased to see him step forward.

[caligirl]

8. Oops, thats okay. My hubby visited Lawrence Kansas for two weeks

a few summers ago and loved it. He went on and on about the University where he stayed.

[Scout1071]

9. It's a really beautiful town, with the University at the top.

Beautiful campus and probably not much like what people would imagine Kansas to look like.

[caligirl]

10. wow, its prettier than he said. But he loved it there i know that.

[Bozita]

7. That photo and story would have Olbermann jumping up and down