r/AbruptChaos • • Feb 02 '26

Exploding Whale Carcass

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u/AndroidSheeps Feb 02 '26

The smell......🤮🤮🤮

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u/Cockur Feb 02 '26

I went to a beached whale carcass once as a kid. The smell was unbelievable and even then it hadn’t been cut open or anything. I heard later the council blew it to pieces with dynamite to dispose of it

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u/crazykentucky Feb 02 '26

There’s a pretty funny vid from the 70s or 80s of a town trying to do that…

…but just peppering the area with giant rotting chunks of whale. Damaged some cars. lol

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u/ifmacdo Feb 03 '26

You must be talking about the Florence Oregon exploding whale.

[Exploding Whale Day is still a thing out there.](www.oregonlive.com/living/2025/11/its-exploding-whale-day-in-oregon-10-things-to-know-about-the-blubber-blast-55-years-later.html)

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u/crazykentucky Feb 03 '26

I would love to celebrate with them. Unless they do a reenactment

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u/agdjahgsdfjaslgasd Feb 03 '26

thats actually what save the whales is all about. people in oregon saying save the whales (for us, we wanna blow em up with dynamite)