Flying Fish: 45-ton whale explodes in city street

News.Com.AU ^ | January 29, 2004 | staff writer

[yankeedame]

Messy: A 45-ton whale exploded in the middle of a Taiwanese city, showering the area in blood and innards.

January 29, 2004

A DEAD sperm whale being transported through Tainan City, Taiwan suddenly exploded yesterday, splattering cars and shops with blood and guts.

The 17m, 45-tonne carcass was being taken on a flat-bed trailer-truck for an autopsy.

"Because of the natural decomposing process, a lot of gases accumulated, and when the pressure build-up was too great, the whale's belly just exploded," marine biologist Professor Wang Chien-ping said.

Herald Sun

[Rightly Biased]

Anotherone?

[stylin_geek]

Okay, a while on a flatbed truck would be a head turner, but then the darn thing explodes? Now that is cool.

[stylin_geek]

while = whale

[Brett66]

Because of the natural decomposing process, a lot of gases accumulated, and when the pressure build-up was too great, the whale's belly just exploded

So why hasn't this happened to Ted Kennedy yet?

[the_devils_advocate_666]

Try a search on whale...

Only been posted here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1067803/posts
and here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1067663/posts
and here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1066695/posts
and here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1066485/posts

[OXENinFLA]

This was sick.

[Lazamataz]

A DEAD sperm whale being transported through Tainan City, Taiwan suddenly exploded yesterday, splattering cars and shops with blood and guts.

AL-QAEDA!

[Camachee]

That's one gut wrenching whale of a story!

[Free_at_last_-2001]

So why hasn't this happened to Ted Kennedy yet? - LOL

[Diogenesis]

[calawah98]

I seen this on the news yesterday, people were holding their nose, I am sorry, but I had to laugh, it was so funny.

[BlessedBeGod]

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

[Cicero]

My question is, why were they taking it for an autopsy? Was murder suspected? Did the clintons have a hand in it? Could be Arkancide.

[chance33_98]

slacker - you forgot http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1068978/posts
sheesh, just like my sex life, I have to do everything myself. Oh wait a minute...

[b4its2late]

Is using the search function on FR painful, too difficult to comprehend, or what am I missing?

[b4its2late]

Did the clintons have a hand in it?

For sure slick did. It was a sperm whale...... :-)

[chance33_98]

Not always, but consider how some people post. I post often at work between projects/problems. You do a quick search, don't see it matching your headline, post, run off to do more. I have posted about 8700 articles since I started, I even once posted an editorial I had already posted - now that is bad :)

[chance33_98]

BTW - the link I posted was for this posting ;)

[the_devils_advocate_666]

I really do think the problem is the default "Order by relevance", and then you have to search again to get "Order by post time".

Discussed at length in this thread: "Order by post time" rocks. "Order by relevance" sucks.

[commish]

For sure slick did. It was a sperm whale...... :-)

This was a sperm whale, Clinton spermed Whales.

[b4its2late]

You must have the same photographic memory that I have, unfortunately nothing ever develops..... But, I see the same article over and over and over and over and it makes me crazy and then I want to go to Arkansas, and Idaho, and New York, and Washington, and Oregon, and Arizona, and California and.........

[b4its2late]

Yes, you are correct, order by post time is what I always use.

[reagan_fanatic]

" So why hasn't this happened to Ted Kennedy yet? "

Because Fat Teddy releases that pressure by expelling nauseous hot gasses everytime he sees an open microphone or television camera, that's why.

[b4its2late]

And I just bumped that thread.....

[b4its2late]

Because Fat Teddy releases that pressure by expelling nauseous hot gasses everytime he sees an open microphone or television camera, that's why.

From both ends at the same time BTW....

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

flat-bed trailer-truck for an autopsy.

Shouldn't that be a flat-bed lorry?. How do you expect me to learn Austalian, mate?

[ChefKeith]

So why hasn't this happened to Ted Kennedy yet?

Because the alcohol content prevents gas from forming, it acts as a preservetive, unfortunatly for Us...

[chance33_98]

I would agree, I have many times used one key word and clicked by time, works well most of the time. I usually bump the article if I find it. When I was working nights I posted a lot of things which got little or no comment as many people weren't online at the time, someone else posted later in day same thing and many more saw it.

Another way to search is to use google and append freerepublic (which is how I do a search to find some of my postings from time gone by). What one has to weigh I think is the time it takes to post versus doing a real good search. I can post an article in less than 60 seconds. Wading through searches and checking can easily double that time and more (and when I am on a roll while at work time can be of the essence to me).

Perhaps a future development that could be done would be to have search built in to posting using several variables and showing you other articles which are related during preview phase. At any rate the search feature could be better but if one really wants to using the current one they could find if something has been posted (and as an aside, is there a way other than google you can search your own posts?)

I will go make coffee and perhaps I will be thinking more clearly :)

[rabidralph]

Look at these pictures of a whale transported openly on a flatbed and try to imagine seeing a similar scene in your city. Can you? Ah, the stuff we miss by not living overseas.

[Rightly Biased]

Never use the search feature when you can just post again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again
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[leprechaun9]

They should do a DNA test to be sure that it wasn't Ted Kennedy!

[the_devils_advocate_666]

A true zen master of the:

<ctrl>-c <ctrl>-v [<ctrl>-v ...]

[yankeedame]

My question is, why were they taking it for an autopsy? Was murder suspected? Did the clintons have a hand in it? ....

LOL!! ... Learn to the truth on the next "Forensic Files" here on Court TV.

[BartMan1]

Yeah, and who is the poor slob stuck with the job of doing an autopsy on a rapidly decomposing whale -- talk about thankless labor....

[Chad Fairbanks]

Looks like the Oregon DOT was busy again ;0)