In November 1970, the Oregon State Highway Division got a whale of a problem: a dead 45-foot 8-ton whale was found washed up in a beach near Florence, Oregon.
So, what did they decide to do to get rid of it:
.. [The carcass] couldn't be cut up and then buried because no one wanted to cut it up. And it couldn't be burned. So dynamite it was, some 20 cases or a half ton of it. The hope was that the long dead Pacific gray whale would be almost disintegrated by the blast and that small pieces still around after the explosion would be taken cared of by seagulls and other scavengers ...
Here's the infamous exploding whale video clip - see what happened: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks Arturo Fernández!
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when I see that video, I always recheck that link for a good second laugh:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4096586/
aaaahhh... exploding animals and satellizing squirrels... life is good...
http://tytempletonart.wordpress.com/2013/09/28/breaking-bun-toons-not-so-bad-yay/
I commented there with some predictions of my own that are, well, based on precedent...
Walter White catches up to a one-armed man who clears him of all charges.
Walter White suddenly awakens next to Suzanne Pleshette.
It’s discovered the whole thing happened in a snow globe held by Walter Jr.
Jesse wins a car on The Price Is Right.
The entire cast is reunited in the Afterlife, and Hurley and Linus come to open a resort at To’hajiilee. (They already have a chain that include Lost Island, Gilligan’s Island, Dillon, Texas and Cicely, Alaska)
Walter finishes Tony’s order of onion rings.
The ghost of Oliver Hardy appears to simply say ‘That’s another fine meth you got us into’.