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When The Buick Electra And The Whale Met

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:51:19 -0600

It's been said that the old Buick Electra 225 was as big as a whale...

Comment from NevadaDailySteve on 2010-07-19

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:25:42 -0600

I've never seen a whale explode before.

*Words to Dumbo song changed and mangled beyond repair*

Oh, I've seen a lot of highway and a lot of road
But I've never seen a whale explode!

I can however state without equivocation that shooting a week-dead cow in the stomach is not advisable when you are within 25 or 50 feet.

Comment from Bill Powell on 2010-07-19

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:26:22 -0600

I was involved with a similar whale explosion in the late '70s. My salvage tug was on a patrol through the Trust Territories of the Pacific checkin on the health and welfare of the locals. We arrived at one island and the people there told us a whale had washed ashore on their bathing beach and was drawing sharks. The carcass was pretty ripe. We tried pulling it off the beach, but only managed to pull it apart. Our embarked EOD detachment figured the best approach was to use explosives. The results weren't filmed, but were similar to what happened in Oregon. Rancid whale meat in all directions!

Comment from Mythilt on 2010-07-19

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:20:20 -0600

(Can't watch vid at work, but assume its the old news report of them attempting to dispose of a whale on the beach with HE vid)
What I want to see is, the insurance report for the damages:
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Cause of Claim: 200lbs of whale blubber moving at aprox 25 miles an hour.
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Comment from Old Fat Sailor on 2010-07-19

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:00:58 -0600

Buick deuce and a quarter, 442 CI engine, God I loved it-never had a whale tho.....

Comment from Colin on 2010-07-19

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:47:20 -0600

It’s an oldie but a good one. To err is to be human to really muck up takes explosives. At an old mine near Vancouver, they wanted to breech a dam to remove the water. The engineer told that they only needed X amount of explosive to create a hole in one of the panels. The blaster decided that XX amount was better.
The film shows the explosion followed by a good chunk of the dam disappearing with a wall of water rushing down to the town, the words “Oh Sh*t can be heard by the guys doing this, the flood caused many $100,000’s of dollar damages to the town below.
Another town not far away used to have a marine festival and they would burn up an old fish boat at night with a little dynamite. People of course enjoyed the spectacle until someone decided that some more dynamite would be better, after broken windows and flying bits of boats, the organizers decided that tradition had better end.