Man moves mountain to park truck

(I wonder how long it would take me chisel a channel to bring fish to my house from North Beach?)
An Indian villager has used a hammer and chisel over the span of 14 years to carve a tunnel through a rocky mountain so that he could park his truck in front of his house.
"I could not park my truck near my house since the mountain blocked my path," said 53-year-old Ramchandra Das, who lives in eastern Bihar state's Gaya district.
Mr Das said the fear of thieves stealing his truck prompted him to work on the tunnel all by himself after authorities refused help.
"I had to leave my truck miles away, so I decided to do something about it myself," Mr Das said.
Local villagers, who had to trek for miles to get around the mountain, are using the tunnel to reach their farms, and praising Mr Das for his work.
"We rarely come across a man who can work so hard to achieve his goal," said Prabhat Kumar Jha, a local government official.
- Reuters

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Hope he is

Wed, 2009-12-02 15:56

is on the next boat to Ashmore - i have a job vacancy for him to fill.

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Lol ian

Wed, 2009-12-02 16:01

Yeah, he would be a beauty with that sort of dedication.

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lucky for him he's not

Wed, 2009-12-02 17:16

lucky for him he's not living in a 1st world country, imagin the what the greenies would do to him :o

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Or in WA

Wed, 2009-12-02 17:40

If he was here in the West he would have died of old age just getting through the red tape

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Ok...

Wed, 2009-12-02 22:01

...did anybody steal his truck while he was digging the tunnel? Mate, if nobody steals your truck in 14 years, it's a reasonably good bet that no one wants it!

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Perhaps it looked like it

Thu, 2009-12-03 06:58

Perhaps it looked like it was worth stealing 14yrs ago?

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LOL Till !

Sat, 2009-12-05 10:24

You guys are too funny - but good point Aus!

LMAO Col - it's a weird world - getting weirder Laughing

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