The Exploding Whale Incident
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- The in-depth story of the Exploding Whale Incident. In 1970, the sleepy town of Florence, Oregon, witnessed one of the most bizarre news spectacles ever recorded: The infamous 'Exploding Whale' incident, which has become a cult phenomenon."
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"The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds." Just beautiful. They don't make eloquent newsmen like him anymore.
Alliteration is a wonderful part of speech.
Society is too dumb to even know what that means anymore. Let alone the TV news. @@JohnnyAngel8
It's gotta be hard unleashing a line like that on the world, knowing it's all downhill for the English language from there.
I legit thought that Ben made that up
He did a better job than this narrator who insists on dialogue as if he’s talking to a bunch of 5 year olds lol. Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s AI
Whale, that escalated quickly.
Don't blubber on about it.
I'm fin-ished with this kind of talk.
@A_Boogeyperson And what if I do so? Whale you come to pun-ish me?
xd
I'm about to baleen out of this whale conversation.
Imagine being the guy that was like, "Hey, you either need to use less or more explosives to get the outcome you want." And you prove them right, but your car is also destroyed by whale flesh. I feel bad for him, honestly. Tried to warn them and the only thing he got was an unsusable car.
At least he got his money back.
tbf tho he got that new car feeling twice and only paid once
I don’t think that guy knew what he was talking about. Using less explosives to push the whale out to sea would have just resulted in a slightly moister beached whale when the tide inevitably brought it back. And if he really foresaw what was about to happen, the why would he risk his life just to stick around and watch?
Gottem
@@mushyroom9569well to be fair I think most men would put themselves in danger to watch something explode lmao
As an Oregonian, it is so embarrassing that my home state is infamously recognized for this event 💀
R u kidding me ?!?! Ur phuckin state rules! This is what you all do for fun? I'm moving there asap
I’d be proud
I know you for the faerie fest because a friend had a hilarious acid trip while attending years ago, because I'm old and irrelevant now.
And if it makes you feel better Oregon is on my bucket lists because I want to be able to go to faerie fest at least once...but I'm not doing that until my children are able to be like... Adult enough to not burn my house down while we go for 4 days and travel internationally. The one downside to that *teen mom life* is that you don't get to have acid trips in Oregon, you get to change and wash diapers and have a baby try to nurse upside down (I should've known then he'd be an... Interesting child 😂😊😊)buuuut my kids will be growned while I'm still young enough to use my hips... Theoretically...
i feel like most ppl know it cause it’s pretty
The best part about this whole story is realizing just how many layers of people the plan had to go through and not one of them stopped to think this was a bad idea. The people on site, the ones coming up with the idea to blow it up, the city officials approached with the plans, the explosives experts brought in to do the demolition, the law enforcement officers involved in everything, all of it. At no point did anyone think this plan through. To paraphrase the later Jurassic Park, they spent so long asking themselves if they could do it they failed to ask if they should.
They did have an expert...
the guy who said "You're using too little to vapourise the carcass...and too much to shift it."
He's the guy who got his car crushed.
@@JohnSmith-yv6eqYeah but they didn't listen to him
Well, it's the default option in America, isn't it? Why would anyone question it?
It's just. It's so much a 1970s USA response and I'm sorry but it is genuinely hilarious
It was 1970. All drugs were practically legal then and no testing. I imagine these officials were higher than the 150 ft chunks of whale. One thing I don't get is why they thought seagulls and whatever else would be interested in it when it appears they weren't when the whale was fully intact? Seagulls are not vultures.
It's truly unbelievable how some of the most ridiculous and dangerous ideas were actually carried out deliberately.
Like dumping radioactive contaminated water from a nuclear disaster into the fxxxing sea.
@@fairfeatherfiend its perfectly safe! Quit your crying!
@@inconnu4961 Why don't you make your miso soup with it!!!
@@inconnu4961If it's "perfectly safe" them you should drink it, bathe in it, wash your dishes, clothed etc with it then.
@@inconnu4961He's right! The side effects are all positive! We get more fish per fish with all the extra heads they get! Its just economical
This incident still cracks me up to this day. The distance those chunks of flesh and bone traveled, could have done such more damage had there been hundreds of spectators.
I totally agree with you.
Yeah, they blasted those whale parts almost as high as Russia's new exploding tank turret toss.
Ohhh, shit!!! (I'm pretty sure that would have been my response as it was 'coating' me.)@@SunriseLAW
Yup! It ended ok so we can laugh. This is some Family Guy level, reality comedy.
Are you okay?
This story never gets old, absolute gold!
Yoooo that rhymed
Right, I have heard this story many times before.
And today the world is 1000 times more crazy
Auto insurance company -- "You said what hit your car??!"
And the nworst part of the story, that was a car he just got.
@@eliottdeletraz97salt on the wound right there. 😂😂😅😅
I really absolutely love the logic _"If we blow it up, It will just disappear right?"_ hahahaha
Boom
minecraft logic
"A whale of a deal."
I couldnt even be mad after that.
Fr 😂
That guy got the best life story out of this calamity. He can one up anybody at the poker table.
1/2 a ton of dynamite could make a tank fly!
Me neither. That’s just irony at it’s finest
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My high school AP Physics class used this to teach us about explosions and how matter/particles behave after being blown up.
Kinda gets me thinking what if the blast was channelled using a sand dish?
Sounds like a fun teacher, lucky you.
Atleast Ur schools actually teach cool stuff... Unlike mine
For what chapter or part of the AP Physics ?
The actual news story commentary is priceless.
Exploding whale seems like a typical day in US
@mehrimazedeh well yeah it's not that unusual in the PNW
And deaths by diabetis and school Shootings
Fun Fact: The Exploding Whale Park mascot has to wear a dynamite vest under their costume... for authenticity's sake.
This is the most American way of solving this problem
I read about this disaster last year and watched the video! This documentary is awesome!
"Chewable whale nuggets" is not a term I thought I'd hear today, but here we are, haha.
lol
yummy
Available at McDonald's limited time only...
@@ltjjenkins 15% whale 85% shit
@@ltjjenkins (Stick of Dynamite not included)
When the narrator telling the story makes you chuckle when he chuckles.
0:02 Because its fun🫡
😂
HAHAHAHAHAHAH whale gobbooooom
0:02 Whale died from sneezing
*If this was a video with only the first 7 seconds, It would be an amazing recommendation to everyone in RUclips...*
I've been to Florence and I am not surprised this happened.
That was quite a mood lifter after your previous video covered the horrific Cocoanut Grove fire. Love it!
As a native Oregonian I pass around the news footage of the event on a regular basis. It's always good to make you laugh until you cry.
This has been one of my favourite stories with the best US journalistic reporting ever!
I live right next to Florence! It’s great to hear this story shared!
How are things near Florence?
@@jonathananaya I live about an hour away but still nearish
True geniuses at work😂
Oddly enough, this is NOT the only blunder done with a dead whale.
There was another incident where a dead whale was put on a flatbed truck and drove it into a business area. The heat of the sun bloated the carcass and its belly raptured, covering the stores in vicera.
Can't recall where that incident happen.
it happened in Taiwan
@@ATL465 Thank you😀👍
God almighty can you imagine a 5 year old seeing that? 😅
I saw that video & it was a total mess in the streets
Yes I remember the video the Taiwan whale incident is way worse compared to the one in Oregon. Plus there’s another whale mess, the whale was lifted with an construction machinery in the attempt to place the whale into a dumpster, use to say that it didn’t go as planned, if you search you can find the video of the whale into the dumpster. 🤦♂️
"Let's airate this thing into a million pieces all over the beach. That'll smell better." Someguy probably.
Aerosolized whale corpse.
As someone who was born in Oregon, and has lived here most of my life, I love that you featured this story! 🤣 It's definitely an amusing bit of our past, and a reflection of how quirky my home state can be! 🥰
Oregon is not “quirky” lmao- 💀
Embrace the quirks of your homeland ^^ I love how we all have our oddities no matter where we’re from. We had a bloke near us make the news for cementing his head in a microwave like the thick fuck he was 😂 Was rescued and unharmed otherwise - it’s those sorts of tales that make you both smile but also question tf is wrong with humans as a whole 😂
@witchypeoniflorallungs3044 the quirks of my "homeland" are gun violence and rights violations, child murders. 🥰
come on over to my place- its.......QUIRKY!
Quirky... 💀
I was giggling throughout this entire video. I felt so bad for the car owner but I'm glad nobody was hurt beyond the nausea xD
It was also quite nice hearing you stifle a giggle(?) during the voice over. Overall, a very fun episode you made!
At least the car owner got reimbursed fully for the car and maybe then some.
@@SpunowAnd in only TWO DAYS!!!!
I know the event itself was stupid, but I never knew it caused THAT much attention that it lasted to this day.
“You’re whalecome!”
-Peter Griffin
Imagine telling the car salesperson that your (ex) new car was really a "whale of a deal".😂
I’m always up for the Exploding Whale. Glad the Olds driver was compensated by the state. I’m sure he wasn’t looking forward to calling his insurance agent.
We know a thing or two, because we've seen a thing or two.
@@tjenadonn6158 🤣😂
they gave him a break by not laughing and pointing at his car- or his terrible joke
I once owned a 1970 Oldsmobile 98 Regency. It's a very large and very heavy car. (Same body as a Cadillac Sedan deVille.). To crush one like that is NO joking matter. It was pure luck no one was killed that day!
I kept waiting...just knowing that, at any second...Les Nessman was going to cut in with a live report. Oh, the humanity!!!
3:48 the part ur looking for
Thank you
I love these stories. I'm so stupid I make stupid mistakes my own life. It's nice to see other people are dumber than me.
Flashing back to when this was one of the earliest viral videos online, pre-RUclips, when you had to download the clip for RealPlayer. This exploding whale is forever linked in my mind to early web nostalgia.
After all the planning, the blast scared the clean up crew away. Great video.
I first learned of this story from my mom talking about being in the area when this happened, she decided there was better places to be than the beach.
Whale whale whale...what we got here
What
@@flyingk1897whale, looks like someone didn't understand
@@RingPilledwhalep, he didn't understand
Clever
Gen x be like "You millennials are dumb"
I present to you, this video of Gen x lol..
No this one was on the baby boomers. Quite literally lol
This is gold, idk man
That explosion was insane and very messy. Good thing no was hurt from that incident, but it was a regrettable incident.
Babe, wake up! Dark Records posted!
I'm awake!
You are gay as.
@@AliensDoCarebruh
@@Epsilon-18😂
Cringe 🤓
Paul Linnman's dialog was perfect I personally have watched it a dozen times when I needed a laugh.
What I love about this that I have never heard before that is golden, is the story about Walt Umenhofer's car and how they sold it as a "Whale of a deal""! Just another wonderful truth to laugh about in this tale.
"The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds" has been a running joke in my family for years now. And what does it say about me that I saw the title and went "which one?"
I remember hearing about this years ago, this is the first I have seen about it for many years, what a fiasco and those poor cars!
These wonderful creatures all have to die but the inconvenience this one caused has gone down in history!
Sound like everyone had a blast.
Should've rechristened it "BLUBBER BEACH"
Ah, classic. As an Oregonian, I embrace our history. Florence is a great place to visit, though! Check out the State Natural Area nearby that is a botanical preserve for carnivorous Cobra Lilies (Darlingtonia). Tons of other stuff nearby as well, like the Oregon Coast Aquarium a bit north, and the Prehistoric Gardens -- a dinosaur-themed roadside attraction -- to the south. My wife and I drove up to see a beached sperm whale carcass at the beach earlier this year... though that seems a bit morbid, I'm sure, it was amazing to see a sperm whale in person. I've gone whale watching, but sperm whales are not a species I'm ever likely to see alive. Biologists removed parts for study first, and many people went to see it before it was buried. (And shockingly, it didn't smell all that bad.)
and they all give discount return passes if by chance it should RAIN
This incident lives in my head rent-free, just due to the bizarre nature of it all 😂
Best voiceover ever
They done launched Lizzo
STOP
GELPPPP
😂😂😂😂😂
Menace
edgy
I never really get tired of hearing this story, or seeing the clips!!! There's also the legendary "whale explosion" in China (if I recall correctly?) when a beached whale was being transported by flatbed to a University for study... and got caught unfortunately in midday sun during rush-hour traffic...
OH I hope there's source enough for a whole "exploding whale's go boom and pffft" series out there! ;o)
In Taiwan, just read it here 😅
@@yomelo That WAS in Taiwan??? Okay, good to know... Thanks! ;o)
I remember the Taiwan whale incident. That was funny too
Blowing up a dead whale with dynamite sounds like something a bunch of drunk guys came up with
I love this video! I watch it every time it “pop”s up. I’m amazed that the human race prevailed, given the lack of intelligence and insight at this glorious event. At least the citation didn’t die in vain. 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦
Can you do an episode on The Stardust Fire in Ireland?
You should do one on the Andrea Gail. The fishing boat that sank off the coast of Massachusetts. It's the story that inspired the movie _The Perfect Storm_ .
What an absurd idea! They prefer not to cut the flesh into pieces... but scattering the little pieces around the environment in a uncontrolled way! crazy
"Hello GEICO, I need to report an incident...."
This is definitely the new story I’m going to share at all the parties I dont go to
4:50 Lesson, when you see idiots being idiots don’t stop and watch
"Dynamite has solved plenty of problems in the past..."
My new favourite quote.
2:02 saul goodmen?
You got your facts wrong mate, it was a gray whale, as evidenced by the photos: sperm whales have teeth, gray whales have baleen. the original broadcast in 1970 also identifies it as a gray whale.
Leaving it to rot will cause it to explode on its own. It's happened before where it exploded from decomposing and lots of parts went everywhere amd probably killed a few people.
The guy covering it on the mews was wonderful
Why didn't they use excavators to push it into the ocean and then have a tug boat tow it out to sea so the sharks could eat it?
Nobody thought to helicopter crane lift it out and dispose of it at a dump. Where gulls, ravens, crows, and other scavengers would clean it up quite quickly.
please enable adding this video to playlist, i want to keep it for samples, amazing stuff
Next time, get a cable round it and tow it out to sea; let the sharks deal with it.
In time people forget, history repeats, this will happen again someday.
They don't do fun things like this anymore
"Look out. It's raining chunks of aaaaaaaarrrrrrrggggghhhhh!!!!!"
Imagine being the first and probably the last person to die from whale blubbler shrapnel
The fact that the slogan for that car was "a whale of a deal" might be one of the most ironic things i've ever heard 😂😂😂
LOL
"big whale died on the beach, what do we do?"
"relax fella's i got this."
**packs dead whale with tnt**
"'MURICA!"
Less than ideal execution aside, this is one of the most beautifully American solutions to any problem I've ever seen. Let's just be thankful that no one (aside from the whale and the Oldsmobile of course) was hurt. God bless the United States!
Surely was a whale of a deal
I’m amazed that only 1 person thought this was a bad idea. So happy they bought that 1 person a new car. I lost it when he said the car was advertised as a “whale of a deal”🤣🤣🤣🤣
the fact that explosions genrally don't have positive outcomes should have been the first clue to the disaster that was about to happen.
I've seen at least 4 videos on this event in the last decade or so. It still cracks me the fuck up! Its as if they put a bunch of hillbilly teenagers in charge of managing the situation as duck tape and dynamite are go to solutions for all matters small and large! Its as if someone asked, "Once this TNT goes off where will all the whale parts go?" and another replied, "Shut up BOB! You're always over thinking shit!" BOOM!!! "Shit! Oh shit! Run!!!" 😆 1:48 Look how confident and relaxed they are! Hahahahahahahaaa...
whale... I guess this is goodbye...
“They had a Whale of a time”
I actually grew up in that town, in fact i have heard this story from like ten different teachers.
The fact that no one at any point considered just cremating it in a funeral pyre is as baffling as it is hilarious.
The first whale astronaut
5:22 LOL!
TOTALLY COOLNESS!! wished i could have been there
Omg they actually opened up a a exploding whale memorial park..lmao amazing! I heard about this 'incident' years ago but I didn't know the town embraced it that hard lol.
I remember this, I was 10 years old, and sat riveted to our black and white turn nob TV so exited to see a whale explode. we were like "MOM COME WATCH THIS!!" while mom as where she was normally in the kitchen washing dishes or whatever puttering she did.
I don't think she was so keen on watching a peutrid whale explode but it was a thrill for us, and then to find out what it would look like afterwards.
lol I was grossed out and glad I was in our part of the world not smelling that disgusting odor. the thought made me gag but my brothers and I couldn't have thought of doing anything else that day. and when the event happened we were absolutely screaming with laughter,
Ah yes for the good old says, when humans went all out and lived life to the fullest 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😉
I’m pretty sure the answer to “what went wrong that day?” Should of been “everything”🤣🤣🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
This happens now and then here on the Lofoten Islands in Norway. Then one of the coast guard ships takes it in tow out to great depths, attaches a weight, punctures it so that it sinks to the delight of fish and the many organisms that live in the depths. Greetings, Gunnar Andersen.
Why didn't they use long towing equipment and tug boats to tow the whale out to sea, so ocean creatures could feed on it?
The water next to the beach of Florence is pretty shallow
@@RagingGoat56 but they could tow it to the deeps?
@@Linaplayz05 this was either the 80s or the 70s No they didn’t have that type of equipment to bring it into the deeps
@@RagingGoat56 oh. But I’m a bit surprised you replied so fast considering the fact that this was 8 months ago.
Never underestimate stupidity. It ha no limits.
Why would anyone think this was a good idea? Not only would it OBVIOUSLY escalate the stench, it would also tear up the beach and wreak havoc on the surrounding natural life and property. I can understand how some people view this as funny (because it is pretty ridiculous), but to me it's just sad.
5:26 no 😂 it had to be
funny americans trying to blow up everything they see
You understand my country well.
Why wouldn't you? It's fun AF.
While the USA does have it's problems like anywhere else in the world, lacking guns and explosives isn't one of them lol.
5:19 whale of a deal 😂