You’ve probably heard about Taiwan’s exploding whale by now. I hadn’t seen pictures until a friend sent me this:
A dead sperm whale has exploded while being delivered to a research centre near the southwestern city of Tainan.
Passers-by and cars were soaked in blood and body parts were sprayed over a road after the bursting of the whale, which was being carried on a trailer.
The whale had died earlier on a beach and had been collected so its remains could be used for educational purposes.
A marine biologist blamed the explosion on pressure from gases building up in the mammal as it began to decompose.
The whale attracted a lot of onlookers both before and after it exploded.
I can just see it now, a Taiwanese Officer Clancy saying, “Move arong peopre, noting to see hewe…” (bad attempt at typing a Chinese accent).
Read the article here.
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4 Responses to “Exploding Whale Photos”
January 31st, 2004 at 12:56 am
you left out the “other” good part: everyone wanted to see this whale because his, um, member was so large. that member was probably taller than most of the guys who looked at it. (bad qdl! back to PC School!)
January 31st, 2004 at 6:53 pm
This is funny. Especially the part about the Chinese policeman named Clancy.
January 31st, 2004 at 6:45 pm
Fishermen found a 50-foot, 50-ton sperm whale beached on the coast of Taiwan last Saturday. Still alive, emergency help was summoned. Sadly, the whale died before help arrived. While being transported through Tainan City on its way to a research statio…
December 11th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
that is so freaking DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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