"Very quickly, the short-sightedness of the plan became evident. Unfortunately, the chief engineer used half a tonne of dynamite to blow up the whale carcass in front of a crowd of spectators, going against the advice of experts who said it was way too much dynamite. City officials had three options - they could either leave it to decompose, bury it or blow it up with dynamite - and chose to go with the third one. In the Twitter thread, the Doncaster Council recounted the incident of the exploding whale and described how the whale carcass led to a debate on how best to dispose of it.
They used the story of the exploding whale to make three points about dealing with the pandemic, and the thread has gone viral on the microblogging platform with over 80,000 'likes' and more than 45,000 'retweets'. The Council of Doncaster - a town in Yorkshire, UK - recently shared a thread on Twitter to highlight three essential points about dealing with the coronavirus crisis. City officials decided to remove the whale carcass from the beach by blowing it up with dynamite - a disastrous attempt that is now serving as a cautionary tale amid the coronavirus pandemic, half a century later.
In November 1970, a dead sperm whale washed ashore in Florence in Oregon, USA.