(Warning - graphic photos) Thar she blows! Dead whale explodes

Taiwanese street, shops showered after gases built up inside





TAIPEI - Residents of Tainan learned a lesson in whale biology after the decomposing remains of a 60-ton sperm whale exploded on a busy street, showering nearby cars and shops with blood and organs and stopping traffic for hours.

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Residents and shop owners wore masks while trying to clean up the spilt blood and entrails.

"What a stinking mess. This blood and other stuff that blew out on the road is disgusting, and the smell is really awful," a BBC News report quoted one Tainan resident as saying.

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Once moved to a nearby nature preserve, the male specimen -- the largest whale ever recorded in Taiwan -- drew the attention of locals because of its large penis, measured at some five feet, the Taipei Times reported.

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You win, it was one year ago right about now. :hi:

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Oh the thought makes my tummy wanna go eeeerp:-( Rancid oily whale blubber:puke: Everywhere x(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_whale


But that was done on purpose by the Oregon Highway Division many years ago.

With explosives. It blowed up good. It blowed up real good. One of Oregon's finest moments. Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?

http://www.hackstadt.com/features/whale/

...chunks of whale rained down on the observers and one big piece smashed a car parked several hundred feet away.

Odd way of putting that, eh? :hi:

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that the taiwanese people are so interested in aquatic mammalian genitalia

that kind of scares me. I'm 4'11" tall.:wow:

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Researchers were having it moved.