How they pour iron in Bangalore. Notice the safety flip flops. I have no idea how those guys can see what they're doing. I've poured steel and that stuff is as bright as the sun. Crazy.
I guess if you are going to work barefoot in an iron foundry, you learn how to be careful. All those guys had normal looking feet as far as I could tell. They don't need no stinkin' OSHA!!
For the non-military types, a real Bangalore torpedo is an explosive charge in a tube, used for breaching concertina wire. You assemble them together until you have a long enough charge to breach the wire. Coming back to the original post, it reminds me a bit of the traffic here in Thailand. The driving here is...nerve-wracking to say the least. But interestingly enough, I have not seen an accident in the two weeks I've been here.
I remember that from Saving Private Ryan...during the Normandy beach scenes. I always wondered why they were shouting "Bangalores!"
Isn't that amazing? Koreans drive all "buck wild" too, but fatal wrecks are few. My theory is this: because everybody expects people to be driving crazy, they are more alert to what is going on.
That said, there is a hairy interchange, just outside Seoul on the South on the freeway. At rush hour they always had a half-dozen wreckers parked there, so if there was a pile-up, they could quickly clear it and keep traffic running. There is probably some witty observation that can be made about this and the difference between the Oriental and the Occidental, but I'm not sure exactly what it is.
