Hands on the hood and spread 'em!

My Peerless Guitars were subject to a "intensive exam" (their words) by Customs finest today. This delayed my being able to pick them up until tomorrow morning. I'm thinking of the countless movies and TV where the customs agents take knives and cut open the linings of cases. I'm wondering "who pays for that?" I think everything is mostly by xray and sniffer dogs these days, and I won't walk into the Customs warehouse to find case linings strewn all over and my guitars in pile on the floor and a Customs agent saying "you can take them now, we didn't find anything that wasn't supposed to be there".