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>>87617Here As far as friends go, I'd suggest family members over anything else. With a friend across the ocean you can get screwed, but the family member( cousin, etc...), you know you'll see them later that year or next at a family reunion or wedding or whenever, which brings me to a variation of my original method: The good-old souvenir trick.
If you're old enough( like mid thirties to early forties), you can easily get a camera back into your country if you go to the states and buy it from a store during a vacation or something. If customs asks you where you got the camera, just tell them that you bought it at a store for your son/ you bought it because some idiot at (insert place here) dropped your old camera and broke it/allowed your old camera to be stolen. Unless you're hauling that camera along with 2 PS3s and a few iPods, they're not even going to listen to the second half of your story before they wave you off.
Heh, my laptop had a massive gaping hole in it, and after going through 8 airport security checkpoints at 6 different airports, only the one in Naples, Italy asked me what was up, and even they literally waved me away after I said "My CD player was broken so I..."
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