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Let's blow up the carcass of a sperm whale! The story of one stupid idea
Site found a funny story, and in a hurry to share it with you! It will be a story about how almost fifty years ago, long before the advent of the Internet, was shot first in the history of viral rolik.V the beginning of November 1970 at the beach at the Flourensa semitonnuyu carcass washed up dead sperm whale. What to do with it, it was not clear if the push into the sea, the waves will bring it back to shore. Options to burn and bury too, did not fit.
A few days later, on November 12 road worker George Thornton figured out how to get rid of mascara - just blow it.
Thornton's plan was to lay a charge of dynamite under the whale from the beach. Then the carcass would be torn to pieces and carried away into the sea, where the meat is taken away to the crabs and seagulls, moreover, that birds of prey all day circling a dead whale.
However, Thornton did not know exactly how much you need explosives to execute the plan. So he generously laid half a ton of dynamite under the sperm whale - 20 boxes.
Around the assembled onlookers - mostly locals. They are located at a distance, 400 meters away from the carcass. Countdown explosion ...
But it did not go quite as planned. More precisely, it is not so. A few seconds after the explosion of a sperm whale large pieces began to fall - and not only at sea, but also the audience.
Young TV reporter KATU-2 Gender Linmen filmed story about what happened that day on the beach. Before the explosion, he took a comment from Thornton. Work said: "I am sure that it will work. The only thing we're not sure how much dynamite you need to split this thing ... ».
After the explosion, when the lumps began to fall, people ran away. Run and a reporter with the operator.
In those days, I travel Flourense turned businessman Walt Amenhofer. During the Second World War, he had to deal with explosives and knew that George Thornton does not turn out to implement his plan: he needed or less of explosives just to push the whale in the sea, or more, to split it into small pieces. The businessman tried to warn the worker, but he shrugged.
"Fortunately, none of the people did not suffer much - he told reporter Paul Linmen. - But all who were nearby were covered with small pieces of dead sperm whale ».
Thornton's plan failed completely. Chaika, who had to take away the remains of disappeared. "They were scared whether the explosion, or the stench. But it is not important. The remains of the carcasses were of such a size that no self-respecting gull did not try to grab hold of them ", - he told the reporter. As a result, road workers just buried what was left of the sperm whale exploded.
However, the author did not notice the failure of the plan. The newspaper comments Eugene Register-Guard Thornton said: "Everything was exactly as it should. Except for the fact that the explosion dug a hole in the sand under a whale ».
After two decades in the mid-1990s, Paul Linmen asked Thornton interview, but the man refused - it seems that he believed that in a negative representation of the successful event were to blame the journalists. When a reporter asked Thornton, if he wants to tell the public that the day went wrong, he dryly asked, "What do you mean by" gone wrong "?»
But the report Linmena become viral!
For a long time this story was perceived as an urban legend - seemed too absurd the idea of a half-ton sperm whale carcass explosion of dynamite. Second Wind report obtained thanks to the Internet.
In the 1990s, people were trying to find the original movie, but a call to Oregon KATU gave nothing - representatives of TV channel confirmed that the story is absolutely real, but they have no copies left.
But a few copies found users. One of them was in the hands of the scientist Andrew David Tayler, who began to send copies to everyone who asks - in physical mail
"Oregon was the sperm whale exploding virus even before it appeared on the Internet infrastructure for viral videos. Then it was faster to send a six-minute video the US Postal Service, you download it. When the technology finally began to comply with the fans exploding sperm whale, clip fell from the first file-sharing sites like pieces of a flying fat "- wrote Thaler.
In 2013, 85-year died George Thorton. He has left a great knowledge - now everyone knows that do not need to blow up the carcass of a sperm whale
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A few days later, on November 12 road worker George Thornton figured out how to get rid of mascara - just blow it.
Thornton's plan was to lay a charge of dynamite under the whale from the beach. Then the carcass would be torn to pieces and carried away into the sea, where the meat is taken away to the crabs and seagulls, moreover, that birds of prey all day circling a dead whale.
However, Thornton did not know exactly how much you need explosives to execute the plan. So he generously laid half a ton of dynamite under the sperm whale - 20 boxes.
Around the assembled onlookers - mostly locals. They are located at a distance, 400 meters away from the carcass. Countdown explosion ...
But it did not go quite as planned. More precisely, it is not so. A few seconds after the explosion of a sperm whale large pieces began to fall - and not only at sea, but also the audience.
Young TV reporter KATU-2 Gender Linmen filmed story about what happened that day on the beach. Before the explosion, he took a comment from Thornton. Work said: "I am sure that it will work. The only thing we're not sure how much dynamite you need to split this thing ... ».
After the explosion, when the lumps began to fall, people ran away. Run and a reporter with the operator.
In those days, I travel Flourense turned businessman Walt Amenhofer. During the Second World War, he had to deal with explosives and knew that George Thornton does not turn out to implement his plan: he needed or less of explosives just to push the whale in the sea, or more, to split it into small pieces. The businessman tried to warn the worker, but he shrugged.
"Fortunately, none of the people did not suffer much - he told reporter Paul Linmen. - But all who were nearby were covered with small pieces of dead sperm whale ».
Thornton's plan failed completely. Chaika, who had to take away the remains of disappeared. "They were scared whether the explosion, or the stench. But it is not important. The remains of the carcasses were of such a size that no self-respecting gull did not try to grab hold of them ", - he told the reporter. As a result, road workers just buried what was left of the sperm whale exploded.
However, the author did not notice the failure of the plan. The newspaper comments Eugene Register-Guard Thornton said: "Everything was exactly as it should. Except for the fact that the explosion dug a hole in the sand under a whale ».
After two decades in the mid-1990s, Paul Linmen asked Thornton interview, but the man refused - it seems that he believed that in a negative representation of the successful event were to blame the journalists. When a reporter asked Thornton, if he wants to tell the public that the day went wrong, he dryly asked, "What do you mean by" gone wrong "?»
But the report Linmena become viral!
For a long time this story was perceived as an urban legend - seemed too absurd the idea of a half-ton sperm whale carcass explosion of dynamite. Second Wind report obtained thanks to the Internet.
In the 1990s, people were trying to find the original movie, but a call to Oregon KATU gave nothing - representatives of TV channel confirmed that the story is absolutely real, but they have no copies left.
But a few copies found users. One of them was in the hands of the scientist Andrew David Tayler, who began to send copies to everyone who asks - in physical mail
"Oregon was the sperm whale exploding virus even before it appeared on the Internet infrastructure for viral videos. Then it was faster to send a six-minute video the US Postal Service, you download it. When the technology finally began to comply with the fans exploding sperm whale, clip fell from the first file-sharing sites like pieces of a flying fat "- wrote Thaler.
In 2013, 85-year died George Thorton. He has left a great knowledge - now everyone knows that do not need to blow up the carcass of a sperm whale
via thehz.ru/interes/davajte-vzorvem-tushu-kashalota-istoriya-odnoj-glupoj-idei
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