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Author Topic: Exploding Whale Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-29-2004 01:48 PM                     From AOL News - This must have been a real mess.  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 01-29-2004 02:57 PM                     yeah, but look on the bright side, the local fish market can jsut gather up the giant squid off the street and sell it.  |  IP: Logged Evans A Criswell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1579 From: Huntsville, AL, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-29-2004 03:55 PM                        Remember years ago when there was a video released on the WWW somewhere showing a whale (or something big) on a beach? It was decided to blow the thing up. The explosion happened, and people cheered, than large pieces of whale blubber fell all around the area, sending people running. I haven't seen or heard this in a long time, but that's what this thread reminded me of.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-29-2004 03:56 PM                        For Evans: http://perp.com/whale/ "The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds."  |  IP: Logged Evans A Criswell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1579 From: Huntsville, AL, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-29-2004 04:03 PM                        Thanks for the link, Scott! I remember seeing a movie file of it long ago (back when I had an SGI Indigo (UNIX machine) as my desk workstation).  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-29-2004 04:40 PM                        'Uhh, what are those pieces of... Oh my GHAAAAAAARD!' Whoever it was in the Highways Department to hit on that idea must have been thinking in terms of a cross between Monty Python and the Darwin Awards...  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-29-2004 05:50 PM                     Scott, I could not get the link to completely open within a reasonable time since Verizon is still in the Stone Ages, but I believe that happened in either Oregon or Washington State. I have a video of that - somewhere.  |  IP: Logged Greg Mueller Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1687 From: Port Gamble, WA Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-29-2004 07:30 PM                        I heard the story a number of years ago and considered it an urban legend because (in the story I heard) a significant chunk of blubber was sent flying through the air and landed some distance away on top of a car, killing a man who was just getting into it to go to work. His wife stared on in horror from the front room window. In this story it happened on one of the beaches of Oregon Death by blubber  |  IP: Logged

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