Whale strandings: what happens after they die and how do authorities safely dispose of them?

The Guardian ^ | 22 Sept 2022 | Donna Lu

[DUMBGRUNT]

This article has TWO exploding whale videos!!! The old standard exploding whale and a fresh(?) new exploding whale!!!

LIKE YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE!!!

[DannyTN]

The old exploding whale was a classic!!

About to check the new.

[Vendome]

blow it up
https://youtu.be/V6CLumsir34

[EvilCapitalist]

“What happens after they die and how do authorities safely dispose of them?” We won’t know until Hillary kicks the bucket.

[DannyTN]

So the new one is a 2004 Tokyo street explosion from natural causes?

The 1970 one 20 cases of dynamite and reports running for their lives from falling chunks of flaming blubber.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

If you live in a rational society you send people out and they harvest the whales and make a bunch of useful products.

If you are a bunch of nutcases you have a funeral or use dynamite.

[Eccl 10:2]

"Say, that's pretty good!....Do you have any more?"

[NautiNurse]

Dave Barry wrote about the Oregon exploding whale. First time reading it, I laughed until I couldn’t breathe. I still laugh when I think about his story.

[llevrok]

Blowed up real good

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

That never gets old. Thank you.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Wish granted;

https://www.theexplodingwhale.com/evidence/resources/dave-barry-article

[HartleyMBaldwin]

The chunks of whale weren’t flaming. It was funny enough without adding made-up stuff.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

This reminds me of a short story I read years ago about a drowned man found on a West Coast beach. The man was fifty feet from head to toe.
How to get rid of it was the story line. He ended up being mostly canned dog food.

[DannyTN]

Been a while since I saw it.

[dsrtsage]

Back in the day, I used to tell dirty hippie chicks that I designed nuclear powered whaling stations.

[joma89]

Run away! Run away!

[Flick Lives]

Carcasses can explode if left to decompose on land

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Crossin’ the ocean late last night
He shoulda looked left and he shoulda looked right
He didn’t see the big sand bar
The whale got squashed and there you are

You got your
Dead whale in the middle of the beach
Dead whale in the middle of the beach
Dead whale in the middle of the beach
Stinkin’ to high heaven

(with apologies to Loudon Wainwright )

[fso301]

Classic exploding whale video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CLumsir34

[Candor7]

[SamAdams76]