Travellers' Tips: Border confiscations

An Auckland warehouse is full of confiscated souvenirs. Photo / Dean Purcell

Have you got any cautionary tales of items unexpectedly confiscated at the border?
Why not share them with other readers by emailing the Herald's online Travellers' Tips forum.
You may be able to save some other poor soul from buying an expensive souvenir only to find it is in breach of the rules.
The forum is a vehicle for exchanging ideas and information, anecdotes and suggestions, about anything to do with travel.
The best offering each week will also appear in Herald Travel.