whale carcass removal
What do you do with 45 foot long, 8 ton, stinking, dead whale carcass that washes up on the beach in your small town in Oregon in 1976? Cut it up? Bury it? Burn it?
How about blow it up with 20 cases (a half ton) of dynamite? At the time, it seemed like a good idea, like most ideas of this nature. This news reporter who narrates the story is absolutely fantastic. His dry, ironic, straight-faced storytelling makes this video even more enjoyable. Too fucking good. I ‘heart’ the 70’s.
This reminds me of a story an old friend once told me about trying to remove a huge tree stump from a old general’s backyard using primacord. Needless to say, overzealous soldiers used too much of the explosive, and the 6 foot diameter tree stump launched a hundred feet in the air, sending experienced Army Rangers running in all directions for their lives. The general’s brand new pickup truck didn’t have the luxury of scrambling and was crushed beneath the stump a few seconds later. The hole left in the ground was like 12 feet deep and 10 feet across. Hooo-ah!
[via the best of google video.]
So genius. The sound of those falling pieces is just beyond horrible.
I can’t believe you’ve never seen this before, this video has been on the Internet ever since you could put videos on the Internet
I think some of the whale meat ended up going a very very long way from the DZ like even out to the carpark or something like that.