Four Australian stacks fall, one stands defiant.
Demolition eyes turned to Australia yesterday as a planned implosion by Liberty Industrial was set to fell five stacks at the Shell Clyde refinery in New South Wales.
At the appointed time, five explosions rang out and gravity seized four of the stacks and dragged them Earthwards, precisely as planned. A fifth stack, however, remained defiantly upwards like a raised middle finger and simply refused to do gravity’s bidding.
Three smaller blasts later and the stack still refused to budge, seemingly mocking explosives and gravity and screaming “your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries,” at the laws of physics.
