This one came out of Vietnam. Not really a dirty trick as, creative use of locally acquired material.
Hollywood would have you believe that all a demo expert has to do is slap a couple of sticks of C4 onto the massive highway bridge and you get this massive explosion and the bridge comes tumbling down...
IRL, dropping a bridge usually involves a few hundred pounds of explosive, carefully placed and tamped for maximum effect.
A Special Forces team had the mission of crossing the border into Laos and dropping a road bridge on the Ho CHi Minh Trail. The team wnet in with enough explosives to do the job, as well as a few hundred plastic bags that were to be filled with water and used as tamping. During the HALO jump, the bundle with the plastic bags went missing.
The SF went on and secured the bridge, wiping out the platoon of NVA that were guarding the bridge as well as a small convoy that was crossing the bridge.
The SF demo people then placed the charges and then used the bodies of the garrison and the convoy to tamp the charges.
One has to give credit to the demo people...along with a check mark for the yuck factor!
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