Fortunately, they were unrelated events
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Oh, man, have I got a story for you…
If that link doesn’t work… In 1970 an 8 ton dead gray whale washed up on the beach in Florence.
Now, in Oregon, all the beaches are public beaches, under the control of the highway department, and they didn’t know how to remove a dead whale.
So they packed it with 1/2 a ton of dynamite and blew it up thinking the seagulls and crabs would eat the bits remaining.
I’m so excited for the person you’re telling about this. Imagine seeing that video again for the first time?
I remember clear as day downloading this video from Limewire and the incredible majesty of understanding that people are, in fact, this stupid.
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Oh, man, have I got a story for you…
If that link doesn’t work… In 1970 an 8 ton dead gray whale washed up on the beach in Florence.
Now, in Oregon, all the beaches are public beaches, under the control of the highway department, and they didn’t know how to remove a dead whale.
So they packed it with 1/2 a ton of dynamite and blew it up thinking the seagulls and crabs would eat the bits remaining.
The strangest part is that this is not the only time humans have blown up a whale carcass, and it’s just gone everywhere.
Here’s a modern folk song about it happening in Novia Scotia, lol
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Can someone please elaborate on the exploding whale?
Wikipedia is unusually cryptic on the subject in the article and Youtube won’t let me open the linked videos for some reason…Dead whales (the huge variants) at a certain state of decomposition can literally explode due to gaseous buildup. Maybe related to that?
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Oh, man, have I got a story for you…
If that link doesn’t work… In 1970 an 8 ton dead gray whale washed up on the beach in Florence.
Now, in Oregon, all the beaches are public beaches, under the control of the highway department, and they didn’t know how to remove a dead whale.
So they packed it with 1/2 a ton of dynamite and blew it up thinking the seagulls and crabs would eat the bits remaining.
Wow. This was a… blast… from the past.
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1.3 Sand dunes
- There are amazing sand dunes
1.4 exit sign out of town.
1.5 Some dude blew his own arm off with a homemade grenade trying to scare some car thieves.
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Cue Farmers… “We’ve seen a lot of things…”
This is more like the mayham guy.
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Everyone is asking about the whale, but I’m wondering how the accidental sex ban worked.
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Everyone is asking about the whale, but I’m wondering how the accidental sex ban worked.
According to the article they used poor wording for some law.
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P padraig moved this topic from Funny
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According to the article they used poor wording for some law.
Intending to prevent people from having sexual intercourse in view of bystanders, the council approved a measure that made it illegal to have sex “while in or in view of a public or private place.”
Bold is my emphasis to show the error.
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Dead whales (the huge variants) at a certain state of decomposition can literally explode due to gaseous buildup. Maybe related to that?
In this case it was human intervention.
With dynamite.
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Oh, man, have I got a story for you…
If that link doesn’t work… In 1970 an 8 ton dead gray whale washed up on the beach in Florence.
Now, in Oregon, all the beaches are public beaches, under the control of the highway department, and they didn’t know how to remove a dead whale.
So they packed it with 1/2 a ton of dynamite and blew it up thinking the seagulls and crabs would eat the bits remaining.
An important note: it didn’t work very well. It blew the whale into large chucks, much larger than they were hoping for. iirc one chunk landed on a reporter’s car, crushing it.
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This is more like the mayham guy.
“I’m the 8 ton whale that washed up on your beach and when the local highway department tries to make me go away with 1/2 ton of TNT, your cut rate insurance might not cover a 700 pound slab of me trashing your passenger compartment.”
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An important note: it didn’t work very well. It blew the whale into large chucks, much larger than they were hoping for. iirc one chunk landed on a reporter’s car, crushing it.
My favorite part of the video is the little old lady voice going “Here come pieces of… whale!”
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Oh, man, have I got a story for you…
If that link doesn’t work… In 1970 an 8 ton dead gray whale washed up on the beach in Florence.
Now, in Oregon, all the beaches are public beaches, under the control of the highway department, and they didn’t know how to remove a dead whale.
So they packed it with 1/2 a ton of dynamite and blew it up thinking the seagulls and crabs would eat the bits remaining.
Now, in Oregon, all the beaches are public beaches,
i think that might be a west coast thing because it’s a California thing too. Would Washington State chime in please?
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I’m so excited for the person you’re telling about this. Imagine seeing that video again for the first time?
I remember clear as day downloading this video from Limewire and the incredible majesty of understanding that people are, in fact, this stupid.
shit, my grandma was there. she’s got pictures.
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Now, in Oregon, all the beaches are public beaches,
i think that might be a west coast thing because it’s a California thing too. Would Washington State chime in please?
History on the Oregon law here, passed in 3 B.W. (before whale).
https://www.opb.org/news/article/history-oregon-tom-mccall-public-beaches/
While California has public beaches, they have private beaches as well. In Oregon the entire coastline is public.
https://www.californiabeaches.com/california-state-beaches/
Looks like WA is the same, public/private mix.
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History on the Oregon law here, passed in 3 B.W. (before whale).
https://www.opb.org/news/article/history-oregon-tom-mccall-public-beaches/
While California has public beaches, they have private beaches as well. In Oregon the entire coastline is public.
https://www.californiabeaches.com/california-state-beaches/
Looks like WA is the same, public/private mix.
those “private beaches” in california are public beaches that landowners with land near the beach keep trying to steal
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Oh, man, have I got a story for you…
If that link doesn’t work… In 1970 an 8 ton dead gray whale washed up on the beach in Florence.
Now, in Oregon, all the beaches are public beaches, under the control of the highway department, and they didn’t know how to remove a dead whale.
So they packed it with 1/2 a ton of dynamite and blew it up thinking the seagulls and crabs would eat the bits remaining.
The blast blasted blubber beyond believable bounds.
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1.2 Accidental ban on sex
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shit, my grandma was there. she’s got pictures.
For real?
Has she ever mentioned what the F people were thinking at the time? This seems like a solution that only a 1980’s cartoon would have come up with.
