Profpointy
Legendary Member
Not me, but a mate of mine was using gelignite to catch fish. They used to pinch the explosives from the coliery.
Apparently the trick was to weight it down with a lump of mud before lobbing it in the water. Ubfortunately the mud fell off and the lit fused stick of banger floated down the river against a great big cast iron water pipe that supplied Swansea. He said that they didn't wait for it to go off but just started running. After the bang they could hear the iron pipe being pelted with rocks. Thankfully it didn't break. He reckoned they'd have got away with it as the Welsh Nationalists would have been blamed rather than a couple of boyos being stupid.
Apparently the trick was to weight it down with a lump of mud before lobbing it in the water. Ubfortunately the mud fell off and the lit fused stick of banger floated down the river against a great big cast iron water pipe that supplied Swansea. He said that they didn't wait for it to go off but just started running. After the bang they could hear the iron pipe being pelted with rocks. Thankfully it didn't break. He reckoned they'd have got away with it as the Welsh Nationalists would have been blamed rather than a couple of boyos being stupid.
