Saturday, November 12 marks the 35th anniversary of the infamous exploding
whale incident near Florence, Oregon. It was on that day in 1970 that the Oregon Highway
Division provided a definitive answer to the question, "What do you do with the stinking carcass
of an eight-ton sperm whale washed up on a public beach?"You blow it up, that's what you do. With a half-ton of dynamite.
TV newsman Paul Linnman was on the scene, his breathless reportage memorialized in a video that still circulates on the Internet today. "The humor of the situation gave way to a run for survival as huge chunks of whale blubber fell everywhere," he said in the aftermath. No one was injured, but "everyone on the scene was covered with small particles of dead whale."
A job well done? You be the judge.
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the same thing was done in Cape Town South Africa a couple of years ago. A real mess!!!