So what do you do if you find a dead gray whale on your beach? It is too large to bury, too heavy to drag away and too stinky to cut into pieces. I am not sure that I have the answer but I can say what not to do. Don’t pack it with dynamite and try to blow it up. The video clip below dates back to 1970 when a dead gray whale washed up on a beach in Florence, Washington. The highway department tried to blow up the whale with a half ton of dynamite. It seemed like a good idea at the time. It wasn’t.
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This was on a Simpson’s Episode. Now I know where Matt Groening got this material. And, The show is sill running.. They Blew up a building in Asbury park with explosives: same thing, they had to bulldoze it: The building was a rusty skeleton with no walls and all of the explosive power was very diffuse. It’s Like having a firecracker go off in your open hand as a child: nothing, just stinging, and the relief that you’re not a poster child for fireworks!