In 1970, officials in Florence, Oregon used dynamite to dispose of a beached whale, but the explosion sent chunks of blubber raining down on spectators and nearby cars.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everyone remembers the Florence exploding whale of 1970 (pictured), but Warrenton beat them by several years in the exploding ...

An enormous dead sperm whale washed ashore in Oregon, leaving officials with a problem they had never faced before. Instead of burying or removing the carcass, they decided to use half a ton of ...

Officials planned to blast the carcass to smithereens and let the seagulls finish the job. Instead, the crowd, the dunes and ...