Exploding Whale

thought you all might, umm, appreciate this? Patrick Watkins reminded me about this last night.

Apparently, in the '70's, a whale beached itself on a *gasp* beach in Oregon, and was so large that local officials didn't know how to remove it. They finally decided the best way was through the use of 1/2 ton of dynamite. Well, things didn't exactly go as planned. Click the picture below for the video.


"Pieces of meat passed high over our heads, while others were falling at our feet...a parked car over quarter-mile away from the blast site was the target of one large chunk...everyone on the scene was covered with small particles of dead whale..."


This page also had some nice pics of another whale which exploded in a slightly different way...