Originally Posted by
Lascaille
Uh, stop the press but it is possible to do something (put an apple in your bag for later) then forget all about it, then - having forgotten all about it - fill in a form saying you have no fruit, having honestly forgotten about the fruit. It's called memory. It's fallible. The level of toxicity and venom you're bringing to this thread is quite disturbing tbh.
What part of this don't you understand....
Tadlock told the local Denver news outlet that she wasn’t hungry, so she stashed the apple in her bag and planned to eat it on her second flight back to Denver.
Not once in any of her statements has the woman ever said she "forgot it was there". Not once. Yet you insist on trotting-out the "maybe she forgot the apple/people are fallible/bad memory" scenario attempting to assign it to her,
something she didn't/doesn't even do herself. If she had forgotten, it would surely be her claim, yet it isn't. If you would bother reading her statements you would know this instead of offering-up your memory-lapse theory that don't apply in her case. No, her claim is that Delta gave her the fruit so it should have been okay, and if it wasn't, Delta should have warned her. In all her excuses, however, there is nothing about being "forgotten". She knew she had it.
I'm going only on what she has said her motivations were. You're attempting to assign her memory loss based on it existing as a general thing despite its glaring omission in her statements. What's next? You''ll suppose she forgot that she forgot? Has forgotten forgetting?
So, this (former) Global Entry passenger stated that she "planned to eat it on her 2nd flight back to Denver", and put it in her bag. That right there should tell you something: a Global Entry passenger should know beforehand she won't be allowed to bring a piece of fruit in, and will absolutely know they'll be asked at the kiosk if she has any to declare. Declaring it means one has to go speak to an Agent. Select "No" to the question means you'll breeze right through. In her case, after answering "No" she was breezing through and got stopped and randomly searched. Did she say she forgot? No, she claimed she thought it was okay because Delta gave it to her.
To reiterate; The woman never said she forgot it was in her bag. She still doesn't claim that even though millions of people forget millions of things every single day, on that particular day for that woman the apple she got on the airplane wasn't one of those things.
Btw, pointing out irrelevancies doesn't equate to "toxicity and venom" so you can safely un-disturb yourself. Also, how much do you actually know about what Global Entry passengers are supposed to know? Are you familiar with it at all?