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Man Chisels Hole in Mountain to Park His Truck

Posted by samzenpus on from the hand-crafted dept.

Ramchandra Das spent the last 14 years creating a hole through a mountain with a hammer and chisel so he could park his truck in front of his house. Das lives in a remote mountainous region and had to leave his truck miles away from his house. A fear of thieves prompted him to ask local authorities for help with a tunnel; when they refused he started the job himself. "We rarely come across a man who can work so hard to achieve his goal," said Prabhat Kumar Jha, a local government official.

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  1. 14 Years? by rmushkatblat · · Score: 1

    The chisel didn't wear out first?

  2. Dynamite? by gregthebunny · · Score: 1

    A few key blasts could probably have gotten the job done in like... 14 hours.

    1. Re:Dynamite? by Ocker3 · · Score: 1

      Yes, because when the government turns down your application for a new road tunnel, they give you the explosives to do the job yourself.

    2. Re:Dynamite? by ShooterNeo · · Score: 1

      Fertilizer + diesel fuel. It's what an American would have done when this place was the land of the free.

      (today, he'd get busted by multiple federal agencies, such as parks and wildlife and the EPA for damaging the mountain. Plus the ATF for detonating an unlicensed explosive, of course)

  3. Picture? by troutinator · · Score: 1

    I wanted to see picture of the tunnel, shame there isn't one.