Exploding Whale 50th Anniversary, Remastered!
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The infamous KATU Exploding Whale video has remastered! To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the infamous beached whale incident that took place in Florence,...

Coming up on the 54 year anniversary.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    2·
    19 hours ago

    Yes my favorite example of “unusual problems require unusual solutions.*”

    *Your mileage may vary.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOPMEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    Now there’s a blast from the past - I remember this doing the rounds back in the day when you had to figure out the right codecs to watch something.

    • sploosh@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 days ago

      I was born after the event, but when I was in cub scouts, long before the internet, one of my fellow scouts’ parents worked for the news station that shot this piece and brought a VHS of it to a meeting once. It became a legend at our school to the extent that the parent later gave a copy to the school to show to kids so they wouldn’t be left out of the fun.

  • crawancon@lemm.ee
    8·
    3 days ago

    well that was SOO worth it. thank you.

    when the guy questioned how much explosive it would take I started giggling pretty good. like who the fuuuuck thought THIS was the best idea? lmao

  • rolaulten@startrek.website
    5·
    3 days ago

    You know someone pitched the idea as a bullshit excuse to use a bunch of dynamite and everyone jumped on the bandwagon. For anyone who does not know, Florence OR is this little seaside town with not that much going on.