Re:In a remote corner of Romania, neighbours kill each other...
by moonchrome on Friday November 20, 2015 @01:44AM
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I know but it's still (morbidly) hilarious.
Also are you sure bleaching powder is used for burning gills ? When I was a kid my grandfather took me fishing for eels after tides were high enough that they could get from sea to small ponds on the shore. We would drop this plant that secreted white liquid and supposedly blind them then they would swim a shore and you could just pick them up in the morning - I'm thinking maybe bleaching powder is for the same purpose ?
IIRC it was illegal because it killed tadpoles and tiny fish that would eat mosquitoes eggs (the entire village used to do it regularly before).
here's a summary of a conversation about fishing my friend had with a group of school children when he went to India
friend: so how do you guys catch fish?
kid: (indicating order of preference) explosives, electricity, bleaching powder and nets
friend: beaching powder?!?!
kid: yup
At face value it sounds like bleaching powder would contaminate the meat but my friend and I figure that the bleaching powder chemically burns their gills causing them to suffocate.
He said he saw some fish markets disturbingly far from water considering the lack of refrigeration. The electrical grid was beyond horrible and there was tons of smog in the city.
He saw two guys welding hand rails in a stairwell by jumper cabling the welder to the railing at the bottom and attaching the leads to the railing at the top. To change between which rail they were working on they'd yell down and have someone flip the cables. Technically safe but not OSHA approved.
Now that I think about it, I really gotta try fishing with my stick welder...