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>He had been sitting on the river bank across from his house, just at the spot where a favourite cousin of his had died years before, accidentally electrocuted

>He had been sitting on the river bank across from his house, just at the spot where a favourite cousin of his had died years before, accidentally electrocuted when illegally electrofishing in the river. That sounds like something out of Borat.

greglindahl 11y ago
Did you know that the Kazakhstan scenes in Borat were actually shot in Romania? The villagers are speaking Romanian, the car drawn by oxen is the Communist-era Romanian car, etc.
dsfyu404ed 11y ago
All the ghetto stuff the first world scoffs at is pretty commonplace. 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...
- moonchrome 11y ago
  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).
rdtsc 11y ago
> That sounds like something out of Borat. It is. My uncle in Eastern Europe used to do it. He was saying he's going "fishing". Wondering why he needed the extra car battery... Came back in the morning with a mountain of fish. Dumped it in the middle of his yard, then called his whole neighbourhood to get free fish. Sometimes visiting him involves pulling out an illegal to own Soviet sniper rifle and shooting rounds in the air, in the middle of the village. But nobody does anything. Why? Well, because he is friends with the head of local police... That kind of describes how things are done there.

greglindahl 11y ago

Did you know that the Kazakhstan scenes in Borat were actually shot in Romania? The villagers are speaking Romanian, the car drawn by oxen is the Communist-era Romanian car, etc.

dsfyu404ed 11y ago

All the ghetto stuff the first world scoffs at is pretty commonplace. 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...

moonchrome 11y ago
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).

rdtsc 11y ago

> That sounds like something out of Borat. It is. My uncle in Eastern Europe used to do it. He was saying he's going "fishing". Wondering why he needed the extra car battery... Came back in the morning with a mountain of fish. Dumped it in the middle of his yard, then called his whole neighbourhood to get free fish. Sometimes visiting him involves pulling out an illegal to own Soviet sniper rifle and shooting rounds in the air, in the middle of the village. But nobody does anything. Why? Well, because he is friends with the head of local police... That kind of describes how things are done there.