Russian fishermen transporting dynamite accidentally blow up train
OLENEVOD, Russia - Three Russian fishermen, who were taking dynamite with them to make their sport a little easier, recently blew up their train instead, according to the ananova.com Web site of Leeds, England.
Dynamite fishing is illegal in Russia, but it is popular. The explosives are detonated in the water, and stunned fish float to the surface, where they are scooped up. But the dynamite the fishermen were carrying accidentally denoted while they were still on board a train bound from Vladivostok to Ussurisk in eastern Russia. The blast destroyed part of the passenger car, but nobody was hurt.
Almost a Darwinski Award[;)]
This story reminds me of a scene I had seen in the motion picture, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid. Butch and Sundance had used a little too much dynamite in trying to break into the safe in a railroad express baggage car, and the result was that the car itself was blown to bits. Sundance dryly asked Butch, “Do ya think you used enough dynamite, Butch?” [(-D]
CANADIANPACIFIC2816
You laugh but I recall history out west where entire baggage cars were blown to the wheels while the safe itself was intact.
Yurrky[%-)] and Zoltan[X-)] were actually on their way to a filming of Sturgeon fishing
instructional videos when the bait went off. Filming was temporarily postponed.
We used to refer to this type of fishing as “siesmic casting” using small amounts of seismic drill hole blasting explosive to get fresh fish for supper, this many years ago in Northern Canada, gee I wonder why there are no fish left ? ?
It is still called “Blast Fishing” in N.W. Wisconsin.
Fulminate of Mercury, Parifin, and a 30-06 shell.
It works out good when the food stamps run out on the 25th of the month.
Kurt.
