A whale of a tale:exploding whale

I did a search of this and found nothing here. If this has already been posted, please feel free to remove it.
This happened in the 1970s. There was a beached whale in Oregon. Unsure of how to handle the situation, the Oregon State Highway Division decided to blow it up. Here's actual news footage of the event.


Here, the story is revisited some years later

reply to post by Skid Mark


It's been posted billions of times, I remember watching that before I even had a 56k.

reply to post by Nysothol

Thanks. I didn't know.