TAIPEI -- A dead sperm whale being transported through Tainan City 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.
Watching the combustion process is not on my "things to do" list in this lifetime.[X(] I've heard of "Whale watching"...But watching a decomposing corpse bloat up and pop ain't what what comes to mind.
However, I expect that once the air express delivery was over, the bait-fishing in the imediate area was pretty good.
[X(]That had to be nasty! Some years ago, a whale washed up on the beach here in Oregon and nobody knew how to get rid of it. The smell was getting pretty bad. Well, some bright person had the idea of blowing it up. The plan was announced in all the papers and people came from all over to watch. The shoreline was lined with cars and hundreds of people. I don't know who was in charge of calculating the explosives needed for blowing up a whale, but whoever it was, they apparently got a little carried away. Pieces and parts of whale flew for thousands of feet, covering the crowd and their cars. I've seen the films of it. Pretty funny!
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Hey......this story all sounds a little fishy...to me! (Okay....somebody tell me...mammal....not fish).
My wife, her brother, his wife, their daughter, (anyone confused yet), her husband, their friend......and finally myself....(wwwhhheewwww) were doing some informal shooting one day in my neice's backyard. My brother-in-law finds this blackened, slightly swollen, 1 lb can on the burn pile.....that's not opened. He sets it up on an old dehumidifier we were using for a target holder. (Hey I told you this was informal shooting....and besides what do you expect from a bunch of Pennsylvania hillbilly's?!?!?) I let my sister-in-law use my Ruger carbine chambered in .40 S&W loaded with CCI Speer 165 grain hollow points take a shot. We are all standing about 25 yards away. At the shot......the can explodes and "stuff" flies out in about a 40 yard spray.....in every direction. Oh....what a smell[X(]! What stunk so bad.....and was all over us....our guns...our ammo.......PINK SALMON. It had been half cooked/burnt on the burn pile and was rotten to boot. We "reeked" the entire rest of the day.....inspite of everyone taking their turn in the bathroom!
I know.....another fish story.....but it's true...I swear.....really......
P.S. For you safety conscience shooters....don't worry. There was a large hill as a back stop....and we were really out in the country. We knew where those bullets were going to end up!
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