Confusing The Border Guards

"gandall" <[email protected]> posted:

> a long story with this punchline: what is it you were smuggling?"
>
> "Bicycles!"

Wow! Great to see this ancient story reinvented! Originally (AFAIK) it was a Communist rebel or
prisoner with a wheelbarrow. As usual Urban Legends has the story:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/clever/wheelbarrow.asp

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I heard about somebody smuggling booze in her water bottles across the US border (into Canada), to
save on the duty and taxes.

Colin "gandall" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]
kc.rr.com...
>
> Confusing The Border Guards While crossing the US-Mexican border on his bicycle, the man was
stopped by
> a guard who pointed to two sacks the man had on his shoulders.
"What's in
> the bags?", asked the guard.
>
> "Sand," said the cyclist.
>
> "Get them off - we'll take a look," said the guard.
>
> The Cyclist did as he was told, emptied the bags, and proving they
contained
> nothing but sand, reloaded the bags, put them on his shoulders and
continued
> across the border.
>
> Two weeks later, the same thing happened. Again the guard demanded
to see
> the two bags, which again contained nothing but sand. This went on
every
> week for six months, until one day the cyclist with the sand bags
failed to
> appear.
>
> A few days later, the guard happened to meet the cyclist downtown.
"Say
> friend, you sure had us crazy", said the guard. "We knew you were
smuggling
> something across the border. I won't say a word - but what is it you
were
> smuggling?"
>
> "Bicycles!"