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Boomerang thrower will return home and keep her record clean
Wednesday, July 17, 2002
ENFIELD, Conn. -- A world-class boomerang thrower from Washington state arrested after trying to take her boomerangs through a security checkpoint at Bradley International Airport received a special form of probation yesterday.
Betsylew Ross Miale-Gix, 43, of Brier will have a clean record if a three-month probationary period expires without further offenses.
"I can't afford to be right," said Miale-Gix, a civil lawyer. "This is a situation where it is more important for it to go away."
Miale-Gix was arrested at Bradley on June 30 after arguing with a security screener who told her that her boomerangs had to be checked. She swore at a state trooper and was arrested on a breach-of-peace charge.
She apologized in court for arguing with the officer. "I was wrong to have said that one intemperate word, and I do regret that," she said.
The two-time member of the U.S. National Boomerang Team said that she has flown through many airports with the boomerangs, including Seattle; Tucson, Ariz.; Dallas; Raleigh-Durham, N.C.; and Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C. She had never been challenged about the boomerangs before.
Miale-Gix said she and her teammates usually hand-carry their equipment. Testifying in court yesterday, she said her teammate had hand-carried his boomerangs onto a different flight earlier in the day.
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