Call Me Squishmael
On a day when the Seattle area was plagued with all kinds of weather-induced traffic mishaps, including a 20-some vehicle pileup on I-5 and this pant-wetter at Deception Pass, I think a town on Taiwan wins the prize for the most spectacularly disgusting traffic mishap. A 60-ton dead whale being transported from the beach where it died to a university for postmortem analysis exploded from a buildup of gas in its stomach as it decomposed, showering the vicinity in whale meat well beyond its pull date, even for a fish-loving nation like Taiwan.
My concern with this is that terrorists will latch onto this as a new suicide bomb technique, imperiling whales as they become a weapon of choice. It will be interesting to see how TSA reacts to the new threat as it trains its airport personnel to detect sperm whales in its baggage scanners.
Too bad this happened so close to the Super Bowl - it might have inspired an ad that could have blown away the Bud Light “Barbeque” ad, which featured a mere horse-fart.
