dinnertime reading ;-)

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Reuters in Taipei
Friday January 30, 2004

The Guardian

The decomposing remains of a 60-tonne sperm whale exploded on a busy
street in Taiwan, showering cars and shops with blood and organs and
stopping traffic for hours.

The 17 metre (56 foot) mammal had been on a truck bound for postmortem
examination at a university when gases from internal decay caused its
entrails to explode in the southern city of Tainan.

The whale had died after it became beached on the south-western coast of
the island.

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