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The Exploding Whale: Twenty Cases, Unemployed Seagulls, and a Door That Does Not Rain

Episode 25 of The Office 360 Unfiltered. Long walk. Unique true story.

November 9, 1970, a forty-five-foot, eight-ton sperm whale beaches near Florence, Oregon. The sand belongs to the Highway Division. Assistant engineer George Thornton is in charge because his supervisor went hunting. After talking to the Navy, they treat the carcass as a boulder: half a ton of dynamite, twenty cases, seagulls to finish lunch. A veteran on the beach says twenty sticks, not twenty cases. They do not take the note.

November 12, 3:45 p.m. KATU’s Paul Linnman and Doug Brazil are there. The sand column goes a hundred feet. Blubber flies eight hundred feet. Spectators run. A sedan a quarter mile off is crushed. Linnman: the blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds. Nobody dies. Most of the whale is still there and has to be buried anyway. Policy now is bury it. Dynamite is off the menu.

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