Exploding Whale
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Jan 28, 04

From this BBC article:

A dead sperm whale has exploded while being delivered to a research centre near the southwestern city of Tainan.

Passers-by and cars were soaked in blood and body parts were sprayed over a road after the bursting of the whale, which was being carried on a trailer.

Update: A friend sent me this link about a whale that washed up on the Oregon coast several years ago. They didn't know what to do with it, because it was too big to move and they couldn't just leave it there, so somebody had the utterly brilliant idea of using a half ton of dynamite to blow the whale up. Their thinking was that the seagulls would eat the small pieces after the explosion, and nobody would have to do any more work. Things did not go according to plan. A quarter of a mile away, some poor guy's car was smashed by a huge chunk of whale. Go the the site and scroll to the bottom, there's a QuickTime video that shows the scene before, during, and after.