Those guys don't know wtf their doing I wouldn't start carrying around tons of flags undeclared and assume you are going to be fine

yea you should just always wire money people!

Wow this is ****ty.

if they had found the money on you, there is a high probability they would have deported you back...Customs and CBP guys don't tolerate lying and they have become real as& ho^% about it...

not a rogue agent, but an un-informed one who made a mistake

Customs = Border Patrol = Department of Homeland Security

why did they take his watch? that's sick

But isa much more ballER if isa carries cash on me...wiring is for those internet kidzz! ! ! !!

really riverboatking, do you really want to use that overused joke?

but in most countries it would be too dangerous to carry that 10k and prohibitive to play the poker in the first place. me and viffer and you were lucky to be born in the US as opposed to picking a country blindly from a hat... even if that means once in a while we have $59,000 confiscated from us by the police.

I was at the Flint airport with 25k in my pocket. Was going through the check and she says empty your pockets please because there was a buldge she could see. I yanked it and she says.. oh wait.. don't pull money out. Then she says.. actually let me look at it and she kinda flipped through it because it was thick and wanted to make sure nothing was hidden in it. Then they told me to never pull the money out again.

Because they can?

No I'm pretty sure this is policy. Something about it not being able to be used as currency. It's the equiv if carrying a 50k rolex, but in flags.

i thought monetary instruments counted as cash: ie checks, chips, etc

carry a video camera and bust it out when they begin robbing you.

i had this happen on a much smaller scale. disgusting feeling of violation. i feel for you dude =\

there is nothing bigger than smuggling cubans into US. you would be better off with heroin.

i went through customs with my parents and they didnt ask us even one of the questions. guy smiled stamped all our papers and pushed us through in under a minute

This is such a terrible argument and the exact opposite philosophy that this country was based on. If you recall it was the loyalists who shyed away from any conflict and told all of the patriots this: "it's all going to be OK guys, just let the British crown take our taxes, as long as we are left alone and aren't bound into serfdom like the peasants in Russia."

Now in 2008 there is an armada of american drones like you who just crouch away everytime the government takes away our civil liberties. FEMA, the patriot act, Homeland Security, the DEA, these are institutions established by the ruling order designed to take away our freedoms and control society. The founding fathers are rolling in their graves right now, this is not the nation they envisioned...

Holy **** I agree with Delecto!!!!!!!!!

^^ cept its 2009 last time i checked

only a poker player can lose track of the month/year

Checks 100% do not count. You can have $10,000,000 in checks and not declare them. However I am also pretty sure that you do have to declare gold. So there is some gray area there. Would be cool to get a firm answer in this thread, anybody wanna man up and call customs?

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/travel/va...kbyg/money.xml

guess i thought checks because of the travellers checks. I've had actual checks counted at borders before tho some of the euro borders seem to be confused with the regulations

Isn't America great? A government agent is given the power to confiscate 50k on a whim and there's still some tard bleating about how at least he doesn't live in Europe.