Let me get this right, customs unpackaged you cigars - cut them up and repackaged them - then shipped them on to you?? That's one sick bunch of folks! They really did that??
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Posts: 711 | Location: Williamsburg, Va | Registered: June 16, 2003
You a right! Makes one think of the priorities of the "Homeland Security"?? Customs falls under them now. Our tax dollars hard at work
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Posts: 711 | Location: Williamsburg, Va | Registered: June 16, 2003
I once sent my brother in law in Los Angeles a box of petit coronas, they were confiscated, and customs went to his house, he was not there, they asked for his office phone number, they called him, made an appointment to meet at his office.
He told them that he did not want to meet at his office, since it was embarasing, so they meet at a nearby restaurant.
2 customs guys, with guns and a release form, they asked him if he was part of a cigar ring, a lot of stupid questions, then went out and searched his car, took his driver license number. Showed him the cigars, asked him to sign the form, all this took them around 3 hours, starting from 10:AM in the morning sinc they showed up at his house, all the way to 1:00 PM when they searched his car outside the restaurant.
So it you think 5 minutes is a lot, imagine 3 hours, my brother in law never again smoked habanos or any other cigar, my wife almost killed me, since it was my idea to send them.
The only positve aspect, is that the customs agent paid for the Ice Tea my brother in law ordered.
"A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a Smoke." Rudyard Kipling.
Imagine if they were Churchill's...or - heaven forbid - Double Corona's!
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Posts: 10308 | Location: Avenida de las Nalgas, Quericæstan | Registered: May 02, 2002
It would seem that the customs officers are breaking the law by allowing the cigars into the country. I thought that Cuban products were banned in the US wether they are damaged or not.
Posts: 7 | Location: Australia | Registered: August 21, 2002
Prez...Roberto's story referenced the customs' overkill all for a box of petit coronas...imagine if THEY were double coronas.
I feel your pain. Take them to a roll-their-own tobacconist and have them re-roll them with a new wrapper...no big whup. Hey...better than the trash can.
___________________ Santa Cabilla...patron saint of Quericæstan. VIVE COULTER (not Ann)! VIVE CPD! Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go...(Oscar Wilde)
Posts: 10308 | Location: Avenida de las Nalgas, Quericæstan | Registered: May 02, 2002
I ended up with a great cigar, but it was damaged in transport (forgotten in pocket...). I took it to a local place where they roll cigars with tobacco from Honduras and the DR...a Cuban family owns it. I brought them some Cuban coffee and shot the **** with them for a while once I asked if they could put a new wrapper on the cigar for me...which they did with pleasure!! I was VERY surprised at the result.
I have always been a proponent of the proposition that the wrapper, one, thin, fine, leaf, has a very minimal impact on the overall flavor of the cigar. But here was a cigar - a Trinidad Robusto Extra, with a substantial ring gauge, lots of tobacco inside - wrapped with a capa from Honduras or Nicaragua, and the wrapper totally overwhelmed the cigar. Changed the character of the cigar entirely.
The good news? The cigar was still pretty good, and it CAN be salvaged and re-rolled.
___________________ Santa Cabilla...patron saint of Quericæstan. VIVE COULTER (not Ann)! VIVE CPD! Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go...(Oscar Wilde)
Posts: 10308 | Location: Avenida de las Nalgas, Quericæstan | Registered: May 02, 2002
quote:I feel your pain. Take them to a roll-their-own tobacconist and have them re-roll them with a new wrapper...no big whup. Hey...better than the trash can.
If customs indeed took the time to chop up the smokes and repackage them, what else could they have done to them??? I would throw them out fer sure. Now how does the shipper handle that since customs did not seize the shipment.....is it just $$ down the toilet?
If anybody does need smokes rerolled for any reason. I would try this guy ELPIDIO`S Cigar corp. Tomas Victores elpidiocig@aol.com He has two locations in florida. The guy rolling the cigars at the shop i went too was amazing. He also added the three seem cap. All his cigars were rolled and smoked perfectly. He has Natural and Maduro wrappers. These were very good NC smokes i picked up on Vacation. The way these cigars looked and smoked was perfect. Of course the flavor was not like a fine Cuban the construction however was better.
Posts: 531 | Location: N.J. usa | Registered: December 27, 2003
That's one sick bunch of folks! They really did that??
