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Indian villager takes 14 years to dig tunnel through mountain
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| Dec 1, 2009
| Randeep Ramesh
Posted on 12/18/2009 2:53:04 PM PST by posterchild
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That's some serious dedication to a task.
To: posterchild
Yes, I’d say that’s right up there with the Protestant work ethic.
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posted on
12/18/2009 2:56:48 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: posterchild
Its good they weren’t in too much of a hurry.
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posted on
12/18/2009 2:58:40 PM PST
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: posterchild
And people here gripe about shoveling the driveway L0L
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posted on
12/18/2009 2:58:40 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of the Masses Could Be Farts)
To: posterchild
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posted on
12/18/2009 2:58:57 PM PST
by
DemforBush
(Now officially 100% ex-Democrat.)
To: posterchild
If I had a hammer, I’d hammer in the evening...
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posted on
12/18/2009 2:59:15 PM PST
by
WOBBLY BOB
(ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
To: posterchild
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posted on
12/18/2009 2:59:31 PM PST
by
TChad
To: posterchild
An Indian villager burrowed for 14 years with a hammer and chisel to cut a tunnel through a mountain Local engineers were long gone after routing a road around the edifice
and blasting a railway through the heart of the mountain.
The villager wept in sorrow.
To: posterchild
10m long by 4m wide...
is that 10 miles or 10 meters? 10 meters doesn’t seem that far
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posted on
12/18/2009 3:01:07 PM PST
by
sten
To: posterchild
If there were an EPA in India or had this been an American who did this near his property, he would be tossed into the hoosgow and the key tossed in the other direction.
Thank you, President Nixon.
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posted on
12/18/2009 3:02:19 PM PST
by
j.argese
To: TChad
ok, THAT makes more sense
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posted on
12/18/2009 3:02:33 PM PST
by
sten
To: posterchild
10m-long, 4m-wide tunnel through the hill range What kind of hills are only 10 meters thru them?
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posted on
12/18/2009 3:04:05 PM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: posterchild
If he did that here he'd have been shot dead by the feds after being found to have violated over a hundred land use and permitting policies, as well as doing himself by hand in 14 years, what a DOT managed project with union labor would have done in 12 years.
This man would make a fine contribution to our country.
I had a neighbor in the 70's who hand dug an enire basement to their home with a shovel and five gallon bucket. It took them four years of working four hours every evening when they came home from their day jobs. It was beautiful when they were done. It was a two level basement, adding about 60% more square feet to their home.
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posted on
12/18/2009 3:05:03 PM PST
by
blackdog
To: j.argese
To: TChad
The 10m figure corresponds with the other info in the article. The posted article says that the tunnel is used in place of the 7km (4.3 miles) trek around the mountain. That wouldn’t make sense if the tunnel was 8 miles long. Also, I cannot imagine one man could haul away and find a place for all that rock in one lifetime if it were 8 miles long.
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posted on
12/18/2009 3:05:54 PM PST
by
posterchild
(Endowed by my Creator with certain unalienable rights.)
To: posterchild
I would like to go to India just to shake that man’s hand.
The Indian Government should serious consider a medal of sorts for that man. If he’s not married currently, they need to find a bride for him.
Genes like that need to be preserved for the good of the entire human race.
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posted on
12/18/2009 3:07:38 PM PST
by
Ronin
To: posterchild
Wow!
We used to have that work ethic here.
Long ago.
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posted on
12/18/2009 3:07:48 PM PST
by
Red in Blue PA
(Obama, Hitler, Stalin: Who are 3 people nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.)
To: posterchild
Hmmm..., what a guy will do when he’s a redneck with a truck.... :-)
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posted on
12/18/2009 3:08:59 PM PST
by
Star Traveler
(The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
To: sten
You were saying ...
is that 10 miles or 10 meters? 10 meters doesnt seem that far
Well that mountain would not be very big if it was 10 meters from one side of the "mountain" to the other side of the "mountain"... LOL...
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posted on
12/18/2009 3:12:18 PM PST
by
Star Traveler
(The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
To: posterchild
The 10m figure corresponds with the other info in the article. I assume that "10m-long, 4m-wide" should be "10 km long, 4m wide." Ten kilometers is not eight miles, but it's not too far off.
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posted on
12/18/2009 3:13:39 PM PST
by
TChad
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