Posted on 11/13/2020 12:59:07 PM PST by MAGA2017
On a clear November day in 1970 in Florence, Ore., state highway engineers lit 20 cases of dynamite to blow apart a 45-foot sperm whale carcass that had washed up on the beach and festered for three days.
Unfortunately, the explosion did not go as planned.
The engineers intended for the 8-ton carcass to be thrown into the ocean in pieces. Instead, chunks of flesh flew toward the beachside town and fell from the sky, crushing a car a quarter-mile away and raining down on a crowd who had gathered to watch the pyrotechnics.
The spectacular failure, and the remarkable local newscast the captured the event, have since become enshrined in Oregon history, so beloved that Florence residents voted to name a park earlier this year after the detonated sea mammal. To celebrate the event’s 50th anniversary on Thursday, the Oregon Historical Society released a remastered video of the original broadcast and the TV station interviewed the former employees who recorded it.
Link to the video the whale blowing up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPuaSY0cMK8&feature=emb_title
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...
The perfect metaphor for Oregon today.
“The perfect metaphor for Oregon today.”
Darn, not a bad idea for ANTIFA and associated morons today though.
Exactly. And ALL the bacteria and filth.
“Rancid Whale Blubber”
Weren’t they were a one-hit wonder back in 1967?
Enough about Stacey Abrams.
Oregon: There she blows!
“As God is my witness, I didn’t know blubber could fly”.
Ahhh. The good old days when you could blow up stuff with out permits or tree huggers to consider.
That’s one of the most comical videos I’ve seen in awhile; listening to the reporter as all that crap went flying. I think it would have been funny even if it had been a written transcript. truly lmao
And they didn’t even have the cocaine and meth excuse back then!
Lol
Ah, those idiots. No idea how explosions work.
While I was in Vietnam we had captured a bunch of enemy stuff, mostly cartridge belts with grenades on them but they were bloody, so they started to stink
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The Marines stuck with carrying them got clearance to go ahead and blow them up, so we stopped in this open area and a sergeant got a 2 pound block of C-4 to do the job and then for some reason, picked me to escort them a short ways away to destroy them.
The sergeant placed the C-4 in a shallow crater and had the troops pile the enemy cartridge belts on top. I told the sergeant that it would be better if the C-4 was on top and the whole mess buried first but he was in a hurry - and I was only a lance corporal.
He popped the igniter and 30 seconds later, pow!
Then it rained armed VC grenades all over the place as we all,scattered for cover.. it was like we were being mortared.
Well, I told them.. luckily no casualties that day.
We need the McKenzie brothers on this thread.
This was one of the best news reports of all time! I still crack up watching this.
Sides hurt. Deadpan reporting. Lunacy on parade. Thank you.
Thank you! I needed that!
lol...no but he was describing in graphic details the blubber flying past...
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