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October 1st, 2008 at 10:07 am
This site is great
July 10th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
This is one of the funniest things ever! Not only was a whale blown up but now there is a dedicated website!!!
The only thing that was sad about this (after the whale had died) that people started suing each other.
Top 5 funnies!!
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btw Bogo, your country is probably responsible for funding a lot of bomb throwing so don’t be so quick to throw stones.
June 11th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
I was there. Not for the explosion, but the day before just to see it. I wanted to go to the explosion, but my parent said no. In hindsight…
June 10th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
My friend’s great uncle is George Thornton, we always laugh about this when he comes around.
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:27 pm
The Whale is heroic
That is truly awesome. If there had to be a hero in the whole saga it would have to be the whale for reigning down destruction on all the stupid people who thought that was a good idea.
February 2nd, 2008 at 5:07 pm
I don’t think it’s all that funny but when some guy has no idea on how to place explosives and they hand him 20 boxes of the stuff, someone need to reaccess whos in charge.
November 19th, 2007 at 12:19 am
Well, I’ve heard of it raining cats and dogs but this goes far, far, oh so far beyond anything that I have ever seen. This is what happens when amateurs are given the job of disposal. The National Guard or other pros would have been far more qualified.
Enough explosive was used, as shown by the car that was destroyed by a large chunk of whale???, just not directed in the proper manner.
Unique though, very unique.
June 14th, 2007 at 6:34 am
I was 13 years old when the whale blown up and yes I was there. The worst part was right after the blast. Notice that green and red mist right after the blast? The stench was so bad, people retched for hours after.
June 6th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
It’s funny that I had never heard of the exploding whale before. I just moved up here to Yachats Or. in January 07. About a week ago I was googling movie times for Florence and I came across the exploding whale movie. Then, a couple of days later at a party, the subject came up and your website was mentioned. Then, when the whale washed up it here in Seal Rock, it was mentioned to me again by a friend in California, that there was a video that shows an exploding whale. So anyways, it just seems strange to me that I had never heard of this incident until about a week ago, and then it was brought my attention twice within several days of each other by totally different people.
May 28th, 2007 at 11:39 am
In response to Gaylene’s question, it was Pacific Indemnity Group, which was the insurance carrier for Oregon’s State Highway Division at the time this happened. You can read more about it in this article on our website.
May 28th, 2007 at 9:43 am
I was just wondering whose insurance paid for that guys’ car???!!
May 26th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
I came across your website on a link from john’s nautical page.I grew up on Long Beach Island in southern New Jersey. I vividly recall the same thing happening there some 45 years ago.I was about 5 years of age and the whale seemed huge to me. I remember jumping and running atop it.The remains of the whale landed across a large area.You could smell it for months.I know the local paper, the Beach Haven Times, has photos of the explosion in their files.Its hard to believe this has happened so many times elsewhere.I had always thought it to be a unique childhood incident.
May 7th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
I had never even heard of this story until it was the story my torts prof used on our final today. The first question and 35% of the test was this story followed the 3 hypothetical victims and who they could sue for this. It was such an crazy story listed as true that I had to research. Now my classmates are sending out videos all over the place. Awesome! I got to write a 7 page essay about Jeremy trapped under whale blubber and Elizabeth running screaming from the blubber.
April 11th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
I saw this video this weekend at the Hatfieild Marine Science Center in Newport, OR, and just had to watch it again (and maybe a few more times). It is hilarious! I can’t imagine why they even thought this would work out. I’ll be sharing this with my friends.
April 11th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
When you play trivial pursuits, the only questions about Oregon are Tonya Harding, and this exploding whale.
March 22nd, 2007 at 3:13 pm
AWESOME!!
March 3rd, 2007 at 7:07 pm
If in doubt blow it up! What a laugh! I can only imagine the smell!!!
February 26th, 2007 at 5:31 am
I want to thank you for allowing us to view these video clips. In class I covered a unit on explosives and the dangers and here you have this video clip. These are not only for entertainment, but they are very useful for instruction. Thank you again!
February 16th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
GREAT story, what a laugh! Or not … ?
“Gotta love Americans, if theres a problem, just blow it up!” as AJ wrote on this list in Nov 06. And even when it didnt work, the government unbelievably states: “It went just exactly right!†(whale-bombing expert assistant destrict highway engineer George Thornton as quoted in the Eugene Register-Guard …).
As long as you US-rednecks throw bombs at dead whales only and just ruin your own cars we all just laugh. But this american way of solving problems has turned into a threat of people in many parts of the world.
When did that story happen? In 1970? Didn’t you over there had time to learn from it?
Next time: please just think before throwing bombs, no matter what Fox TV might tell you. Thanks.
Bogo from Switzerland
February 15th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Do you plan to run the related story of the dead whale found in Taiwan in 2004 whose internal gases caused it to explode, fouling up the air?
Editor’s note: The Taiwan incident is, in fact, already documented on TheExplodingWhale.com here: Taiwan (1/26/2004)
February 14th, 2007 at 6:08 am
A classic!
February 4th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
I watched the video and tears came to my eyes…blub, blub and then I realised I was a “blubber”!
January 16th, 2007 at 9:58 am
I swear they did this again during the time I lived in Portland(’98-’04)with similiar results, showering news crews with rotten blubber. Can anyone help back this claim or was Paul Linnman reairing this story the year of his retirement?
January 15th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
I grew up in Oregon, and this has been my stock “home-state” story the world over. It is big in Japan. Funny in Finland. Mucho mucho in Mexico. Thanks for devoting website to this piece of Oregon lore. Next, a website devoted to Oregonians who are not afraid to wear socks with their sandals? Even more shocking.
December 25th, 2006 at 1:38 pm
I have never laughed so hard in all my life. I wish there was a higher rez version of it, though. I gotta find that for my site.
December 22nd, 2006 at 8:27 am
If you blow up a dead whale hoping it will “just go away”…. you might be a redneck.
December 12th, 2006 at 11:11 am
Well I must say, i’m glad this story is getting out. it needs to be heard.
November 30th, 2006 at 10:47 am
I once saw this video on German TV and i started laughing for about half an hour. How stupid can someone be to do something like that. When I first saw the video it was for about 3 years ago and I thought that I would have to move mountains do get it, and now thanks to the internet i finally got it. A great thank you to everyone who made it possible, but can you send me a higher quality version? I know thta somewhere it has to exist, but i can’t find it anywhere. But anyway thank you very much.
November 28th, 2006 at 7:17 am
One of the strangest stories I’ve every heard. Well done to the website operators for sharing this.
November 25th, 2006 at 10:41 am
FUNNY, thats hilarious, love the part with the crushed car. Good reporter, funny guy
November 21st, 2006 at 5:12 am
Gotta love Americans, if theres a problem, just blow it up! It seems to work for most of their problems!.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:40 am
Some things are purely Oregonian.
A whale full of explosives, a shower of giant chunks of whale fat on curious bistanders, all narrated by a perfectly deadpan Linnman - cummulates in one event Oregon’s entire mantra. Try to be taken seriously while knee deep in what can only be seen by those outside our borders as comedy.
Thank you, Paul, for continuing to laugh with us.
November 16th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
Unusual site caught my attention just to discover a slighly deranged humour. I guess what goes around comes around like a boomerang or in some other transformed form.
For goodness sake when are men going to respect the natural laws of the universe and act “humanly”, allow the whales to die naturally..we don’t see animals acting so ridiculously.
November 12th, 2006 at 3:07 am
Great site. Absolutely hilarious. But I was disappointed by the Paul Linnman interview. I was hoping to find out how he came up with that brilliant line.
November 3rd, 2006 at 12:44 am
The first time i saw this video, I was living on the S. Oregon coast. It was funny then, and as someone else noted, It was a Scream!
That was years ago. My wife and I just happened to remember it again tonight; I went to Google “exploding whale” and, well, it’s still funny. And it’s better yet now with your website and all it’s contents. Thanks for preserving and celebrating a special piece of Oregon Coast history! This is great!
October 19th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
I too am sorry the whale died, but nontheless being it is dead it had to be disposed of one way or another. While watching the video I noticed no one even mentioned of pulling it back out to sea. Once they were far enough out, to where the current wouldn’t bring it back in, they could have either cut it lose or at that point, if they so desired, try the explosives as long as it didn’t hurt what life was around there. If this would have been possible or not, I don’t know, but it sure would have been better than what they did.
October 16th, 2006 at 5:34 am
When I first read Dave Berry’s article about this incident, I hadn’t laughed that hard in a long time. It was a scream!
October 11th, 2006 at 2:12 pm
As you advised I rebooted and enjoyed the film. Thanks
October 11th, 2006 at 9:54 am
I enjoyed the videos after having to download Quiktime again. That was quite a story! I am curious as to why it was reported on a Southern Washington beach if it was in Florence, Oregon.
October 10th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
I downloaded quicktime, went through troubleshoot and still no video. Any suggestions?
October 10th, 2006 at 7:52 am
What a shame that you did not make this video available in a format that does not require downloading Apple software that ONLY runs on Windows 2000 XP. I would have loved to watch this video, but am one of those not running that environment. Am very disappointed.
September 10th, 2006 at 5:42 pm
fire that cameraman for abandoning his post.
July 25th, 2006 at 4:56 am
i didnt get 2 see it beacuause the stupid school filterd it…anywho how are u all by the wat and wat are you all doin lookin at this sick video love ya lots XxXxXxXxX
July 8th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
Allow me to quote Homer Simpson: ” Look at that blubber fly!”
June 24th, 2006 at 10:04 pm
New dead whale on Andrew Molena state park CA.
Have pictures, will send
May 19th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
Hi! We just had a Gray Whale Calf die in the Columbia River, i got some good photos, would you like them? If so email me a address that i can attach photos.
thanks nate
May 15th, 2006 at 9:09 am
http://www.nbc10.com/news/9216231/detail.html
This might be a candidate for the next whale to get blown up?
May 11th, 2006 at 5:42 pm
well we are currently viewing this page from uni and we were terribly disgusted and outraged to see somone standing on a dead whale. Does this not turn your stomach sick?? how can someone not have so much as an ounce of sorrow for such a poor and helpless animal. They are not an intrusive threat so why should we be so cruel and heartless fare enough to blow them up because there dead BUT doesn’t this come under the counts of animal cruelty?? disgusting
signed abbey and trin
April 20th, 2006 at 9:09 pm
There is another version of the video[...] which has IMHO better voice-over. The version here has different video editing and is shorter.
Note: “dmc” is correct — there are two versions of the video. Both may now be downloaded from our video page. The content of this post was edited by the site admin.
March 11th, 2006 at 4:52 pm
Blew me away to
March 1st, 2006 at 6:53 am
this is amazing!
January 28th, 2006 at 8:50 pm
I never believed Dave Barry’s statement that the videotape of this event was “the single most wonderful thing in the history of the universe.” Now that I have seen it, I am compelled to agree with Mr. Barry’s statement.
Clearly, one of the greatest accomplishments of human history here, and I am sure it will go down as the single most important thing ever accomplished by the United States of America.
December 9th, 2005 at 1:23 pm
Just hilarious…exactly what I’d expect from a State agency!
November 20th, 2005 at 3:13 pm
Why doesn’t anybody change the format so that EVERYONE can view the video.Only a select view from all the people who I’ve sent to this website,can actually see the video.I’ve seen the video years ago on TV, but like most,are unable to view it online.Please make some changes so that ALL get their fair share of blubber.
November 20th, 2005 at 9:06 am
Just when you thought you saw it all…
November 16th, 2005 at 3:57 pm
Thank you, Steve, for celebrating this cherished bit of Oregon history. Your website is stellar!
November 11th, 2005 at 12:44 pm
Many thanks to Bob Welch for yesterday’s column and his direction to your website. High point was reading Dave Barry’s piece on the exploding whale. I chuckled at Welch’s article; I howled with delight at Barry’s. Best punch line from Barry was the gulls relocating to Brazil.
November 10th, 2005 at 12:51 pm
Exploding Whale website…..hmmmm.
I immediately thought “These guys are idiots to have a site like this”
…But then I realise I did a search to get here….so I’m just like you I guess, I mean I am commenting too..hehe. I also have shown the file to friends repeatedly. mea culpa.
Your site is awesome. Real nice layout and glad that someone is chronicling the exploits of Oregonian whale cadavers and their removal.
Wow, there’s that many more of me out there….I feel warm. Must be the blubber.
Thanks,
00Billy
November 10th, 2005 at 8:45 am
Absolutely the best thing on the Internet. I laughed so hard this morning that I will feel good all day. Thanks
November 7th, 2005 at 10:34 pm
Thanks for adding the newspaper articles. I now know where to point people who wonder if the “half a ton of merry dynamite” was exaggeration…
At least they didn’t ship it to Eugene.
November 7th, 2005 at 10:22 am
Welcome to the new blog-based feedback forum for TheExplodingWhale.com! We look forward to hearing from you!
-Steve