My fathers dumb sand joke .

This is a dumb joke my father told me a few years ago , i tried to translate it the best i can ,so here it goes.

So a man is crossing the border on a bike and he is holding a bucket filled with sand in his hand . He comes to the police officer and shows him his papers , everything looks good , but the police officer notices the bucket with sand .

"Whats that " asks the police officer .

"Just sand nothing special" says the man crossing the border.

the police officers takes a look in the bucket , dips his hand into the sand to see if he is hiding anything , and he doesn't find anything and lets the man trough .

A few days pass and the police officer sees the man on the bike with the bucket again . He senses that something is fishy with that bucket so he takes a real good look ; shakes it , puts his whole hand in it and still , nothing . So he lets the man trough again .

A few days pass and there he is again - the man riding the bike with the bucket . The police officer is fed up with the bucket at this point . He takes the bucket and throws all the sand on the ground , kicks it , does anything he can think of , and still nothing . He is so fed up he says

"Listen man , i'm sick of this , if you tell me what you are doing here every few days with a bucket of sand , whatever it is , be it smuggling drugs or anything , ill let you trough , just for gods sake tell me what are you doing "

the man looks at the police officer and smiles

"Smuggling bikes"