In practice, the agency has put drugs that are considered particularly dangerous or fraudulent on an "import alert" list and these are routinely confiscated by customs officers or postal inspectors.

To be sure, the level of violence at Yorktown High School pales compared with that in some New York City schools, where gangs terrorize students and weapons are routinely confiscated.

Magazines were routinely confiscated under the anti-obscenity Comstock laws; permits for labor rallies were often denied; and virtually all anti-war or anti-government literature was outlawed.

Materials were routinely confiscated from the Hugarian populace and taken to the USSR for "War Repairs".

Jemima is a domestic duck whose eggs are routinely confiscated by the farmer's wife because she believes Jemima a poor sitter.

Achatina achatina is routinely confiscated by quarantine authorities at US airports especially Baltimore, Dulles, JFKIA, and San Francisco.

The Israelis have routinely confiscated land in and around Jerusalem - mostly for their own use, as in this case - since winning the 1967 Middle East war and capturing parts of the city that had been under Jordan's control.

And then, of course, there is Finland, where cell phones are so ubiquitous that they are routinely confiscated in high schools before exams because students quietly exchange answers by sending text messages on their handsets.

Cuban cigars and rum are routinely confiscated at U.S. ports of entry.