After using many small bundles of dynamite throughout the day, at the end of his work day he decided to use up what he he had left in one big explosion that he claimed would break up rock for many yards around and then he could head back home without worrying about the leftover dynamite in his trunk. He tied by my rough count over 160 sticks together in one huge bundle, wired it up to his battery pack rig, then threw it into the water and touched the wires together.
The resulting explosion rocked the area for more than a 1/4 mile around. Windows were broken in a nearby subdivision and elderly retirees were frightened out of their wits.
Within a few minutes we could hear sirens coming on the highway and soon firetrucks and cop cars were on the scene. I was almost completely deafened and soaked with salt water from the huge geyser that lifted up a tower of water to what I estimated as 150 feet above our heads. The last I saw of the inebriated demolition man he was being loaded into a deputy sheriff's cruiser and headed for the local courthouse.
The thread title is correct, dynamite and alcoholic refreshments do not play well together.
Me, too:
When I was working in New Mexico, some Indians on one of the reservations were celebrating New Years by drinking and throwing lighted sticks of dynamite out through the hogan door - like firecrackers.
One of the drunks missed the doorway, hit the doorframe, and the dynamite bounced back inside the hogan -- where it exploded...