The rotting, stinky, leaky carcass of a 48ft sperm whale has been stranded in the Hebrides of Scotland. It is wedged ever so tightly in a cleft and is proving difficult to drag as the large boulders (or small mountains) are more than a trifle stationary. And it could prove rather expensive at over £5,000.Experts, at what we're not sure, are set to fly to Harris to carry out a post-mortem examination of the body.
Angus Nicolson, the local authority's environmental chairman (and don't you have one, too?) said: "It is the council's responsibility to dispose of the carcass. We may have to blow it up if it is physically impossible to get close in to lift it."
Ew.
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There was an incident with a beached dead whale a few years back, I think on St Andrews North Beach, if memory serves (but it could have been the Severn Estuary, or I could be conflating two separate incidents). Someone had the great idea to blow it up, so instead of having one localised source of smell, they ended up with human head-sized chunks of whalemeat and blubber spread over several acres. It took them a long time to get rid of the smell.
Update: We did manage to uplift it and take it to the landfill site for disposal. Explosives were not required!
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