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There's an old apocryphal story.

Everyday for decades, a young man rides his bicycle, with a 10 pound bag of sand in tow, across a national border. This draws the attention of customs nearly everyday and they search through the sand day after day and find nothing.

Many many years later one of the customs agents sees the man, and asks if he was actually smuggling something all that time?

The answer was: "Yes, I was smuggling -- bicycles."




A modern retelling of a classic Mullah Nasruddin story, where it's donkeys[1].

1: https://www.sufiway.eu/hodja-mullah-nasruddin-smuggler/


I heard this story first as a kid, but with a wheelbarrow.


was it in the 1968 Batman cartoon episode “How Many Herring in a Wheelbarrow?” where the Joker refers to it?


Yup, wheelbarrow and construction site debris


The wheelbarrow makes more sense than a bicycle.


i heard this story often growing up in Poland; the 'border' was the Wall between East and West Germany

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15019036/ they made a movie about it




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