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Exploding whales have been documented on two notable occasions, as well as several lesser-known ones. The most famous explosion occurred in the United States at Florence, Oregon, in 1970, when a dead sperm whale (originally reported as a gray whale) was blown up by the Oregon Highway Division in an attempt to dispose of its rotting carcass. This incident became famous in the U.S. when American humorist Dave Barry wrote about it in his newspaper column after viewing a videotape of television footage of the explosion.

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  • Lol!

    This is so American! Insted of just moving it into the ocean, lets blow it up!

  • good morning oregon.. guess you won't be doing that again. I wonder how long the smell of putrid flesh was lingering on pristine oregon beaches.

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  • @Moldragath Hell Yeah! People love seeing shit get blown up! Why not my useless corpse? It's not like some one is going to fucking hang it on thier wall as a fucking trophy.

  • @HavokIsLord0120 Quit bitchin', this was over 40 years ago.

  • @StickyFingersss y would we put a dead whale in the ocean...

  • Us Americans is dummer then a squirrel thats dun runned out in tha middle of moovin' traffic.

    XD

  • Dumbasses! That's what they get for thinking of something so idiotic! Even if dead, how could you blew up something so precious? Also,why would you want to see this and bring the kids along? Before you ask, I was looking up NATURAL whale explosions for a project, and stumbled across this. This is horrific!

  • @Chase11d7 the put a LOT of dynamite in it...

  • it's raining whale! :D

  • 2:00 thats the reason, why not to let a wale explode. bye bye car

  • Sticky.. this was back in the 70s.. While we were blowing stuff up what was your country doing? Discovering fire? Suck it fool.

    And on a side note.. Pretty sure this is Florence OR's north jetty, it's not a terribly long distance from the parking lot to the beach, but that' not what's impressive.

    The impressive part was that smaller pieces made it clear into town...

  • That's sick

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