# Exploding Whale News Clip---Help? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 21, 2000, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-whale-news-clip-help/16243 "2000-04-21T21:00:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Flang\_Dang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e4f/32.png) [@Flang\_Dang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flang_Dang)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-whale-news-clip-help/16243/1 "2000-04-21T21:00:00Z")
A few months ago, someone posted a clip or a link to one that was a news clip from the '70s about a community trying to dispose of a large dead whale on the beach. The bright idea was to pack one SHIT-LOAD of dynamite under the thing to “vaporize” it. Instead, it sent 100 lb. chunks of rotting whale meat flying through the air over a mile radius. I thought I had saved this, but I guesss I didn’t because it was huge. I was describing this to some friends this week and we were cracking up about it, but I can’t find the clip and key-word searches have proven fruitless. Please, if anyone knows of the whereabouts of this clip, please be so kind as to post. I’ll be your best friend and you’ll be a hero! * * * “Did you ever wake up, Bullfrogs on your mind?” - Wm Harris ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-whale-news-clip-help/16243/2 "2000-04-21T21:02:00Z")
[http://www.hackstadt.com/features/whale/](http://www.hackstadt.com/features/whale/) Hope it cures what ails ya! ---
**Author:** ![Flang\_Dang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e4f/32.png) [@Flang\_Dang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flang_Dang)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-whale-news-clip-help/16243/3 "2000-04-21T21:13:00Z")
Thanks a bunch, new best friend! I feel like an idiot–I was scouring the SDMB database instead of just trying the web directly. God, I love the Internet. The link to the actual clip from their page didn’t work, but I’ll try again later. You are indeed the hero of the day. Thanks again. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-whale-news-clip-help/16243/4 "2000-04-21T21:20:00Z")
It helps to be riding fiber at work. Sometimes, I can download so fast that I could swear I go backward in time. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-whale-news-clip-help/16243/5 "2000-04-21T21:29:00Z")
[Here](http://www.consumptionjunction.com/Media/Videos/whale.mov) it is, in .MOV format. it is 12mb, so don’t bother if you are on a modem. Crazy stuff. * * * That movie taught me some important lessons in life. 1. I can build a robot that loves me. 2. I can reanimate my dead girlfriend by jamming bits of metal and silicon into her skull. Both are lessons I use on a daily basis… ---
**Author:** ![MadPoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploding-whale-news-clip-help/16243/6 "2000-04-21T22:51:00Z")
In the 70s? I coulda sworn I was living in Oregon when that happened… I remember when Dave Barry first started reporting on it. Whale chunks everywhere, right in my back yard. * * * [http://www.madpoet.com](http://www.madpoet.com) I am human, and I need to be loved Just like anybody else does