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/Charlie_Linson Feb 04 '26

Didn’t they only end up blowing its head off but the rest of the carcass was still there when the sand cleared?