Confusing The Border Guards

"gandall" <[email hidden]> posted:

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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:
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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 hidden]> wrote in message -"]news:[email hidden]-
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Confusing The Border Guards While crossing the US-Mexican border on his bicycle, the man was

stopped by

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a guard who pointed to two sacks the man had on his shoulders.

"What's in

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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

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nothing but sand, reloaded the bags, put them on his shoulders and

continued

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across the border.

Two weeks later, the same thing happened. Again the guard demanded

to see

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the two bags, which again contained nothing but sand. This went on

every

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week for six months, until one day the cyclist with the sand bags

failed to

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appear.

A few days later, the guard happened to meet the cyclist downtown.

"Say

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friend, you sure had us crazy", said the guard. "We knew you were

smuggling

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something across the border. I won't say a word - but what is it you

were

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smuggling?"

"Bicycles!"