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    Re: Do we need to declare gifts at Customs?

    Quote Originally Posted by booger View Post
    And if you do, be honest and share your intentions.
    I should have mentioned this. Lying to customs officials is (if they care to pursue it) a violation in itself - making a false declaration of entry.

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    Re: Do we need to declare gifts at Customs?

    lemme take this thread BACK on-topic:::::::
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    Quote Originally Posted by wrtiii View Post
    Mostly nobody
    searches luggage
    in the "nothing to declare" line
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    lol
    lol


    oh r-e-a-l-ly ...???..

    lol
    lol

    *they* have played with me a couple of times

    and
    you should see the look pon the passport-stamper's face
    when i tell 'em i'm going to Lucea
    lol
    lol

    dem look pon my bags
    ...wanna give me a search
    ......but THAT ain't there job (at that check point)
    lol

    i *guess* i look suspicious eh
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    Quote Originally Posted by booger View Post
    I have never been asked to open my bags, knock on wood,
    so you likely will have no issue.
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    i've watched 'em.

    if you going-to/staying-at an A/I or another resort-type place
    they don't trouble you

    always *play* your dumb-tourist card.

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    Quote Originally Posted by booger View Post
    And if you do,
    be honest
    and share your intentions.
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    i second THAT..!!

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    1..Once upon a time,
    they check my bags
    and
    grilled me 'bout all my camera equipment
    and boxes & boxes of Polaroid film

    mi-SAY:::>> ''..Polaroids for test, exposure-checks...''

    2...Once upon another time
    dem asked 'bout some school supply stuff

    mi-SAY:::>> ''..for my pickney(s) going back to school..'''
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    Quote Originally Posted by wrtiii View Post
    ........ Lying to customs officials is (if they care to pursue it) a violation in itself
    .... - making a false declaration of entry.
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    yep yep

    you DON'T want to spend time in dem Ja-jail cells.

    I seen 'em.
    .... NOT a pretty set-up

    :-(

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thatswhatshesaid View Post
    Customs people are human

    BUT you might run across one that got up on the wrong side of the bed
    and wants everyone else to have a bad day too. I once heard a customs person say to another......lets search everyone with a mustache today ...no reason, just because.

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    * sigh *

    been there done/seen THAT, too

    and
    *folks* will do that mess-with-the tourist thing-y in OTHER-places around the island.

    such as:::>> Once upon a time,
    this nasty & evil Cambio-teller
    in Negril
    wouldn't cash my traveler's check
    'cause he-said::>> ''..signature don't match..''

    grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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    Once, same thing happened over in MoBay, too
    be hapPpy

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