Flying Fish: 45-ton whale explodes in city street

News.Com.AU ^ | January 29, 2004 | staff writer

[yankeedame]

Messy: A 45-ton whale exploded in the middle of a Taiwanese city, showering the area in blood and innards.

January 29, 2004

A DEAD sperm whale being transported through Tainan City, Taiwan suddenly exploded yesterday, splattering cars and shops with blood and guts.

The 17m, 45-tonne carcass was being taken on a flat-bed trailer-truck for an autopsy.

"Because of the natural decomposing process, a lot of gases accumulated, and when the pressure build-up was too great, the whale's belly just exploded," marine biologist Professor Wang Chien-ping said.

Herald Sun

[Rightly Biased]

Anotherone?

[stylin_geek]

Okay, a while on a flatbed truck would be a head turner, but then the darn thing explodes? Now that is cool.

[stylin_geek]

while = whale

[Brett66]

Because of the natural decomposing process, a lot of gases accumulated, and when the pressure build-up was too great, the whale's belly just exploded

So why hasn't this happened to Ted Kennedy yet?

[the_devils_advocate_666]

Try a search on whale...

Only been posted here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1067803/posts
and here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1067663/posts
and here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1066695/posts
and here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1066485/posts

[OXENinFLA]

This was sick.

[Lazamataz]

A DEAD sperm whale being transported through Tainan City, Taiwan suddenly exploded yesterday, splattering cars and shops with blood and guts.

AL-QAEDA!

[Camachee]

That's one gut wrenching whale of a story!

[Free_at_last_-2001]

So why hasn't this happened to Ted Kennedy yet? - LOL

[Diogenesis]

[calawah98]

I seen this on the news yesterday, people were holding their nose, I am sorry, but I had to laugh, it was so funny.

[BlessedBeGod]

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

[Cicero]

My question is, why were they taking it for an autopsy? Was murder suspected? Did the clintons have a hand in it? Could be Arkancide.

[chance33_98]

slacker - you forgot http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1068978/posts
sheesh, just like my sex life, I have to do everything myself. Oh wait a minute...

[b4its2late]

Is using the search function on FR painful, too difficult to comprehend, or what am I missing?

[b4its2late]

Did the clintons have a hand in it?

For sure slick did. It was a sperm whale...... :-)

[chance33_98]

Not always, but consider how some people post. I post often at work between projects/problems. You do a quick search, don't see it matching your headline, post, run off to do more. I have posted about 8700 articles since I started, I even once posted an editorial I had already posted - now that is bad :)

[chance33_98]

BTW - the link I posted was for this posting ;)

[the_devils_advocate_666]

I really do think the problem is the default "Order by relevance", and then you have to search again to get "Order by post time".

Discussed at length in this thread: "Order by post time" rocks. "Order by relevance" sucks.