Huh? I genuinely do not understand posts like this at all. You're blaming a musician for trying to bring an instrument into the US with the expectation that customs not break it for no reason? As someone else posted, bamboo products are explicitly allowed (https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/1359/~/importin...), but hey, why understand details or have compassion when you can just side with the government mindlessly at every opportunity...
What I said was if he didn't follow the rules then he's only got himself to blame. If he had followed the rules then he has been wronged. I didn't mindlessly side with the government but I did read the article.
If YOU had read the article then you would have known from the lack of detail it wasn't clear exactly what happened or why. The musician in question didn't seem to fight the customs agent which suggests to me that he acknowledged he had made a mistake.
You should also know from reading the article that it didn't say customs broke his instruments; they confiscated them (for destruction). But hey, it sounds a lot more exciting and outrageous to say they broke them.
I guess you mindlessly sided against the government. Chill out.
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Every country has export/import regulations at their borders. They usually don't check that what you take out is permissable to bring back in.
If he didn't have the proper documentation or follow the rules, he's only got himself to blame. We'll have to wait for the whole story to come out.
Huh? I genuinely do not understand posts like this at all. You're blaming a musician for trying to bring an instrument into the US with the expectation that customs not break it for no reason? As someone else posted, bamboo products are explicitly allowed (https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/1359/~/importin...), but hey, why understand details or have compassion when you can just side with the government mindlessly at every opportunity...
What I said was if he didn't follow the rules then he's only got himself to blame. If he had followed the rules then he has been wronged. I didn't mindlessly side with the government but I did read the article.
If YOU had read the article then you would have known from the lack of detail it wasn't clear exactly what happened or why. The musician in question didn't seem to fight the customs agent which suggests to me that he acknowledged he had made a mistake.
You should also know from reading the article that it didn't say customs broke his instruments; they confiscated them (for destruction). But hey, it sounds a lot more exciting and outrageous to say they broke them.
I guess you mindlessly sided against the government. Chill out.
'God bless you Customs agents for your service'.