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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
by tanseydavid 3y ago
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."
- doh 3y agoI heard this story first as a kid, but with a wheelbarrow.
- oh_sigh 3y agoYup, wheelbarrow and construction site debris
- x86_64Ubuntu 3y agoThe wheelbarrow makes more sense than a bicycle.
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- jes5199 3y agowas it in the 1968 Batman cartoon episode “How Many Herring in a Wheelbarrow?” where the Joker refers to it?
- blacksmith_tb 3y agoA modern retelling of a classic Mullah Nasruddin story, where it's donkeys[1]. 1: https://www.sufiway.eu/hodja-mullah-nasruddin-smuggler/ https://www.sufiway.eu/hodja-mullah-nasruddin-smuggler/
- jareklupinski 3y agoi heard this story often growing up in Poland; the 'border' was the Wall between East and West Germany https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15019036/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15019036/ they made a movie about it