Originally Posted by
PukinDog
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.
Yes, that's one explanation. She decided knowingly to risk her Global Entry status, and a potential $1000 fine, so that she would have something to munch on her connecting flight.
It's equally feasible that, being caught in possession of said illicit piece of fruit, she offered the excuse that she thought was most likely to get her off, and decided that "I forgot I had it" wouldn't cut the mustard. Having instead offered the explanation that Delta had given her it, which clearly didn't work either, she can hardly now backtrack and claim that if she had remembered, she would have declared it.
There is nothing in the reported facts that disproves either hypothesis.