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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Hippo on January 29, 2004, 02:54:12 pm

Title: Thar she blows!
Post by: Hippo on January 29, 2004, 02:54:12 pm: [q](http://cdn.news.aol.com/aolnews_photos/01/03/20040129095609990011)

TAIPEI (Jan 29) - The decomposing remains of a 66-ton sperm whale exploded on a busy Taiwan street, showering nearby cars and shops with blood and organs and stopping traffic for hours, local newspapers said.

The 56-foot dead whale had been on a truck headed for an autopsy at a university earlier this week, when gases from internal decay caused its entrails to explode in the southern city of Tainan.

The whale had died after it was beached on the southwestern coast of the island.

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:lol:

Anyone else hear this?
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Post by: Liberator on January 29, 2004, 03:17:35 pm: Saw it on Fark this morning, can't say it isn't funny. For instance, why were they hauling it through town?
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Post by: Dough with Fish on January 29, 2004, 03:20:13 pm: LOL

Ahhhhhhh that is some good **** there.
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Post by: J3Vr6 on January 29, 2004, 03:27:33 pm: Ugh, can you imagine coming out of a store or your job and seeing your car covered in blood? Or even being there when it explodes and being bathed in it?
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Post by: diamondgeezer on January 29, 2004, 03:47:16 pm: Hmm. Funnier, less funny or as funny as blowing up the whale with TNT? Cos that was pretty funny. Specially when people go nuts over animal cruelty
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Post by: aldo_14 on January 29, 2004, 03:54:16 pm: Nah. 'twas dead animal cruelty.
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Post by: karajorma on January 29, 2004, 03:55:56 pm: Revenge for years of commercial whaling. The whales have started suicide bombing. Unfortunately this one got a little bit lost and swam left instead of right and made it to Taiwan by mistake. :lol:
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Post by: diamondgeezer on January 29, 2004, 04:00:37 pm: Now that's comedy, Kara
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Post by: Martinus on January 29, 2004, 04:09:45 pm: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Hmm. Funnier, less funny or as funny as blowing up the whale with TNT? Cos that was pretty funny. Specially when people go nuts over animal cruelty

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If so did you see what happened to the guys car? That was bloody genius.
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on January 29, 2004, 04:18:22 pm: All very well, but where was the bowl of petunias?
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Post by: kode on January 29, 2004, 04:34:25 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
All very well, but where was the bowl of petunias?

well, it looks like there was a spruce. or some kind of tree, at least.
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Post by: Starks on January 29, 2004, 04:41:12 pm: www.perp.com/whale

THE ORIGINAL INFAMOUS EXPLODING WHALE!
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Post by: comic on January 29, 2004, 06:08:37 pm: More importantly why did the petunias think

"oh no not again?"
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Post by: Fineus on January 29, 2004, 06:41:25 pm: Quote
Originally posted by comic
More importantly why did the petunias think

"oh no not again?"

42? ;)

Anyhow, it's pretty funny since the whale was already dead, if it was killed for the purpose of experiments etc. then it'd be another matter (yes, I'm against animal cruelty).
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Post by: karajorma on January 30, 2004, 04:28:09 am: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Now that's comedy, Kara

The whole cetacean order worries me. but it's dolphins that really scare me. I never tust any animal that smiles all the time. :)

Besides I think this might be worryingly close to what is going on down there.

Dolphins Evolve Opposable Thumbs: 'Oh, ****,' Says Humanity (http://www.theonion.com/onion3630/dolphins_evolve_thumbs.html)
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Post by: neo_hermes on January 30, 2004, 04:38:51 am: that was an interesting site Kara.
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Post by: Gortef on January 30, 2004, 06:13:49 am: the cleaners might have had a "WTF^^ Mates" experience when they came to work
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Post by: Nico on January 30, 2004, 08:03:16 am: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Hmm. Funnier, less funny or as funny as blowing up the whale with TNT? Cos that was pretty funny. Specially when people go nuts over animal cruelty

what was funny in that video were all those idiots and their ruined cars :p
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Post by: Hippo on January 30, 2004, 11:02:49 am: *calls adams references*
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Post by: Liberator on January 30, 2004, 11:06:41 am: Yes, the poor creature was dead, they were taking to a lab for an autopsy to see what killed it.

Besides the obvious "I weigh 35 tons and without any water to support my bulk I collapse in on myself."
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Post by: Starks on January 30, 2004, 11:33:37 am: What's the whale look like on the side we can't see?
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Post by: Nico on January 30, 2004, 01:01:34 pm: as we can't see, we can't know :doubt:
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Post by: Rampage on January 30, 2004, 04:09:56 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Liberator
For instance, why were they hauling it through town?

I think it's a cultural thing. I have a Chinese friend who puts meat using his utensils into my plate whenever I visit his house. It's politeness.

But about parading the whale, the Chinese seems to be attracted to unusual events, so they do stuff like this. For example, I was studying in China in my early 20s (about 18 years ago) and the kids paraded me through the street because... you know...
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Post by: Nico on January 30, 2004, 05:23:35 pm: I suppose it was the shortest way for that university? :doubt: