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I love how TH-cam gives a translation
I will take a 10% responsibility for this video, idc
when the admiral is still pissed he had to read Moby Dick in high school then calls his cousin bob the builder....
Can we get a full video on the mark 18?
Can we get out takes on the this video?
That is the most American thing I've ever heard. "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas. Blow it up!"
HAHA 😄 🤣
"im tired and wanna go home"
lol end this now
That's basically the thought process of an E4. "I get to go home when it's done? How much dynamite do we have?"
Nah , I think that would be project orion , which is when we thought launching a ship into space by setting off nuclear bombs under it was somehow a good idea . Don't get me wrong the science 100% proved it was possible but it would massively suck for anybody in that hemisphere of the planet .
No not were out of ideas
Blowing it up was the first idea
'Get the dynamite. We're going home early.' - I want this on a shirt!
YES YES YES GREAT IDEAR😂😂😂😂
Absolutely!
Same here and as I work in a quarry part time it would be hilarious and appropriate at the same time
This is one of the greatest stories of all time. Two things. 1. You know that beer was involved in this plan. A lot of it. 2. This story proves that there is no problem so large that it cannot be solved by the proper application of high explosives.
My man this was 100% bourbon involved 🤣
Valkyrie reference anyone???
As someone who is originally from Oregon, I can safely say this: there WAS probably beer involved, but not nearly enough to actually explain the decision making process there. The beer was just easier to cart around and keep sand-free than water.
This entire comment was read in Nick's voice. 🤣
It's just about as good as a bunch of rednecks, guns, and tannerite blowing up a bunch of feral hogs, only a whole lot more fun!
When anyone asks WTF happened to the US between 1945 and 1990 I always like to remind people that we used to put lead in the gasoline and im sure the guy who thought this up did alot of road side work.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
_"...used to_ put lead in gasoline"? I'm afraid I've got some bad news...
Being an Oregonian I’ll say I’ve seen many vids on this. Doug Brazil was the rookie photog who shot the film and he said there was a mist of blubber and goo that covered everyone and everything in the vicinity. The smell was horrendous. KATU had paid to fly him and the rookie reporter Paul Linnman in a small plane from Portland to the coast for the story. When they flew back later that day, the smell made the pilot very sick. 😂
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As someone who’s lived in Oregon my entire life, I can safely say this is our greatest accomplishment as a state.
Agreed.
Born and raised Oregonian. Agree!
Well the state does produce the best heavy weather fishermen, in the country. If you can skipper a boat off the Oregon coast for two years, you can get a job anywhere.
@@kirkjones9639 right!!!! by going out of the mouth of the Columbia in a fishing boat that takes balls
Not entirely. Back in the early 80s a USCG helo did a fly by of the Queens yacht. 4 of the 5 crew members were mooning her
This has one of my favorite quotes:
"I know it will work, it's just a question of how much explosives we need"
Words to live by.
facts and science
@@the_fat_electrician As a Combat Engineer, there is a correct answer to this question.
"How much do we have?"
@@dobermanownerforlife3902 or the corollary, I don't know how much it will take, but I do know how much we are going to use.
@@the_fat_electrician You may want to check out Terrance Popps channel. Half of his stories are from his 33 year career. He is triple tabbed. Maybe some for of collab. Maybe just entertainment.
"How much should we use?"
"Yes."
There is no better spokesman for describing how America does shit better than this guy right here! Your videos bring us so much happiness at work! Spa Guy Approved for at work entertainment!
I was working with some ranchers from Wyoming a couple of years ago. They found a dead horse on the trail, and called the park service. Park service packed that thing with plastic explosives and vaporized it. The video was great. All because the park service does not want bears and other large predators getting a taste for horse meat.
I know I didn’t just hear you say “Meat Mortars” with a straight face.
4 takes if u were curious
@@the_fat_electrician only 4? That’s impressive
@@the_fat_electrician LMAO
@The ATF what about the straight faced meatyores?
@@the_fat_electrician I C... 4....
wait a minute!
Blasted Blubber Beyond all Believable Bounds.... one of the best lines on TV evah!
You forgot a few key components to the story. And it’s that blowing it up didn’t even work. It didn’t create enough force to disperse the entire whale. It scared away all the scavengers that they assumed would eat the “small” chunks left over. And they wound up having to cut it up and haul it off anyway…. 😂
You somehow make just shoving tnt at a problem the only sensible solution. In the words of Jamie the glorious Walrus "When in doubt... C4".
Well there’s your problem. Got to love the Hyneman. I miss that show
I used that quote unironically once. Got a lot of confused looks, and had to explain it. Ah, worth it though. Really missed that show.
@@wylandnares8642 agreed, the world just isn’t the same without it
Anytime you can't find a solution. Just remember that I C4. (Side note working for Amazon my favorite staging area is c4 and it means I can say this every time I'm assigned to it without being tackled. "I have c4!")
@@dogloversrule8476 "Quack damn you."
I’m not an American, but when I watch your videos, I can’t help but feel American!!
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@epix... What makes America special is that it's an idea and a state of mind, much more than a place.
Dangerous freedom, sovereignty of the individual, self-determination, and the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness are concepts that transcend geographical , topographical and political borders.
Exercise your right to use your supercomputer of a human brain as you see fit and you ~are~ an American, regardless of what your passport may say. 👍😎
This right here is the epitome of being an American! God Bless Us! (Angels start singing!) 😊
This very story was used in my engineering classes as an introduction to why engineering matters and what tends to happen when people try to cheat at it. Also, funny af.
The Bible is truth.
The key to understanding that is in combining personally reading the Bible with putting the teachings Jesus Christ gave us into action in your own life. Start with forgiveness, parents are easiest, they’ve loved you. That’s a very important step in understanding all this. You have to work though your inner drama and forgive. Also, make sure you at least read three books of the Bible, Genesis Mathew and one you chose yourself.
Jesus Christ is the way truth and life
@@jamesmayle3787 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡
@@MrThhg no joke. 100% truth
@@jamesmayle3787 nah my blunt is 1000% truth 🤣🤣🤡🤡
@@jamesmayle3787 You know, more people might listen if you put your comments in more appropriate places. As they say, having religion is much like having a penis, it is fine to be proud of it, but do not shove it down anyones throat without permission.
The Fat Electrician. Our generations great story teller! We didnt know we needed him until we had him.
0:19 scariest words you can hear
I can say that my Grandmother born 1911-1997 in Woodburn and saw the ocean for the first time in a model T. She and my Mom both talked about the stupid decisions made that endangered so many people. This was often mentioned in the same breath as the only civilian deaths in the lower 48 due to enemy action during WW2 also happened in Oregon due to firebomb balloons.
I have talked about this to many folks. Im ao glad you are covering this
This is a very new take on getting rid of beach bums but I'm for it. And the guy in charge was obviously a combat engineer
I remember this story.
Dude, you are the best story teller. I wish I had that skill.
Seen this story before and it never gets old.
it really doesnt
It reminds me of that video of the cow getting struck by lightning and just keeling over. It's terrible, but you have to laugh.
The Bible is truth.
The key to understanding that is in combining personally reading the Bible with putting the teachings Jesus Christ gave us into action in your own life. Start with forgiveness, parents are easiest, they’ve loved you. That’s a very important step in understanding all this. You have to work though your inner drama and forgive. Also, make sure you at least read three books of the Bible, Genesis Mathew and one you chose yourself.
Jesus Christ is the way truth and life
As a native Oregonian it was MANDATORY I purchased a “Meatus Deletus” shirt & to stick with current events a “Float Around & Find Out” Hoodie!! Thanks & keep up the most entertaining channel on TH-cam
When life gives you problems, and you have access to TNT, because everyone loves explosions! Great video, love your new format, its nice and clean!
The Bible is truth.
The key to understanding that is in combining personally reading the Bible with putting the teachings Jesus Christ gave us into action in your own life. Start with forgiveness, parents are easiest, they’ve loved you. That’s a very important step in understanding all this. You have to work though your inner drama and forgive. Also, make sure you at least read three books of the Bible, Genesis Mathew and one you chose yourself.
Jesus Christ is the way truth and life
It got turned into a bunch of meateorites.
We have whales often wash up. Oregon has done a great job of disastrously screwing up every single one of them.
Living in Oregon, I can assure you that every time a whale washes up, this is brought up in the comments as an option. It's all but a state holiday.
After the blast, I like what Fred’s wife said to him, “alright Fred you can take your hands out of your ears.”
Please keep your future content in this format.
Thanks for putting the video up.
Yeah I liked that too lol
The Bible is truth.
The key to understanding that is in combining personally reading the Bible with putting the teachings Jesus Christ gave us into action in your own life. Start with forgiveness, parents are easiest, they’ve loved you. That’s a very important step in understanding all this. You have to work though your inner drama and forgive. Also, make sure you at least read three books of the Bible, Genesis Mathew and one you chose yourself.
Jesus Christ is the way truth and life
The funny thing is, this isn't even the only time a whale was blown up in and/or around Oregon.
December 24th, 1941. A B-25B Mitchell piloted by Charles Ross Greening of the 17th Bombardment Group was doing a sub patrol 200 miles from the mouth of the Columbia river, where they came across something in the water. They got visual confirmation of the object: a dead whale. However, with the mindset of 'better safe than sorry', they decided to drop their full 3000 pound bomb load on it just to be safe. Obviously, it wasn’t a sub, and they just blew a dead whale to smithereens. Low on fuel, they headed back to base in Pendleton, Oregon, documented the patrol, and went on with their day. These men would later be recruited by Jimmy Doolittle for the Doolittle Raid, the first retaliatory bombing of Japan.
Legend has it that while they were setting up, an actual military trained demolitions engineer showed up and warned them that 1. That was too much and 2. They were not shaping the charge to make sure it blew all out to sea instead of, oh, half into the spectators. He was, of course, told to get lost by the construction workers who were trying to get the hell away from an eight ton rotting corpse as fast as possible.
This is very popular in Oregon. And the reporter made his career on this. Check out the full clip, there's more gems in it.
Thank you for pronouncing Oregon right. The whale deletion is still legendary around here, always good for some laughs.
3:19 I am convinced that one news clip was the entire motivation/inspiration for the Kevin Bacon movie trimmers
"Not a question of what we are gonna do, just how much TNT it will take"
Oregon is good for two things: whale deletion and the feeling of leaving Oregon
I said to declare war on Wales, not whales.
omg lol 😆 😂 🤣
With just a little effort to switch your narrative ability you could be a seriously good stand up comic. I love this channel
“The ole “well technically” card” dammit I love the shit I hear on your channel. Keep ‘em rollin brother
That car that was crushed was brand new lol, the guy bought it and decided to go on a road trip to watch the whale blow up. I live in Oregon and am fairly familiar with the story as it was in Florence which is about a 3 hour drive from me lol. Fun fact the lead engineer finally retired about 10 years ago while being stationed up in the Cascades ever since that faithful day lol
To stop some of the oil fires in Kuweit after the Gulf War, the Texans of course showed up and blew up all the sand around the burning fire, thus cutting its access to oxygen briefly enough to stop it from burning. You read that correct: the Texans BLEW UP A FIRE to MAKE IT STOP. And it WORKED.
3:29 as a journalist by training I can tell you we are specifically trained in the ways of said bar-making in J-School
Oh I remember this story! They didn't even blow it all up. There was still a large chunk of whale left over that they brought in machinery to push it in to the ocean. It also scared away or vaporized all the birds around because none came to clean up the small particulate left behind.
I saw that on the news the day it happened, I live in Oregon, and we do have a knack for doing things a little differently.
Always excited to see the next story you cover
That whale exploded not far from where I currently live. It was long before my time.
I already knew this story, but your telling of it is vastly superior
As someone from Oregon we would do it again but we would point it at Portland. We are also known for the Federal Government murdering one of our Ranchers on video.
AT LEAST 16:1 blubber to tnt further testing is required to conclusively determine the maximum blubber handling capacity (MBHC) of 1000 pounds of tnt
I grew up on the Oregon coast North of this "incident." It happened when I was 2, but everyone talked about it regularly when I was growing up. Ironically, even though Oregon beaches are considered "highways," very few of them can actually be driven on today.
Couldn't do that today. All the lovely people of Oregon would go ballistic today
This is one of my favorite things ever,this is what the news should be all about
Their solution if it didn’t completely work was flawless. As it happens high explosives, just like duct tape, operate on a philosophy of “if it doesn’t work you aren’t using enough”
I is very happy this is my first TH-cam video of the day looking like a great start for theday
Fun fact: the guy who’s car got crushed was also a demo expert who told the people responsible for yeeting the whale to the moon warned them that they needed WAY MORE explosives to destroy the whale.
That Reagan clip of "I'm from the government and I'm here to help!" Never doesn't scare me.
More to story. They still had huge chunks to dozer off the beach as well. Supposedly the meat mist and blubber shrapnel everywhere was a horrendously vile mess to clean up. The stench inducing chunks, particulate, and mist was effectively spread out over quite the radius like the fallout from a nuke.
That was the most well written absolute classic TV news story ever.
Everyone who grew up near the Oregon cost knows this story. It's still a local legend.
Watching these videos just makes me love my country so much more!
As a retired highway worker... Exactly government construction workers.... Your description is apt abut going home early and try those guys i guarantee probably loaded more than 1000lbs.... Whose gonna miss an few extra sticks lol
That was the America I grew up in and damn proud of it. Young Adults today would have lapsed into coma if they witnessed such a event. Lol
Some other country: *invades*
America: *deploys whale mortar*
Literally anyone else: “Okay, maybe we should tow it out to sea using a couple of tug boats and then-
Oregon Highway Commission: wHaT mAkEs Me A gOoD DeMoMaN?!
Ive heard and seen this story a hundred times. I clicked because you are telling it.😊
the definition of "i want to sticky trap someone but not on a circle of hoovies so i must improvise" kind of demoman
he did get a raise. he was the primary local anchor for like 30 years
Every time I hear this story it just gets better!! 🤣🤣
Don't ever cut up a decaying whale. The gases from the bacteria eating the whale basically turn it into a bomb.
That moment of Regan was perfect
I don’t know if this has been said before. But I believe the only main land casualty’s from enemy activity in World War Two happened in Oregon as well.
I can't even begin to think about how that must have smelled.
Totally Awesome. Merry Christmas 🎄
I'd bet that the idea of blowing it up was a sarcastic suggestion. And the person who suggested it was in disbelief the entire time.
I’m from the Oregon coast and we still do this we just don’t let the news know.
Explosives are like firewood. When you think your pile is large enough for your task, triple it, just in case.
The original clip, they still had to use tractors to get most of the whale off the beach, even had a quip about they had expected the birds to finish off the small pieces(not so much as noted a car was wrecked by the "small" pieces) the explosion would have left behind but were scared off by the inadequate explosion.
As it turns out, they should have used about twice as much dynamite as they did.
Having just watched another video on this very event, there's a comical twist to the story. Apparently, the smashed-in car belonged to an explosives expert who stopped by, by pure coincidence, to advise the DoT on the amount of explosives needed to be used depending on whether they wanted to simply yeet it or vaporize it. They chose otherwise.
Oregon department of transportation at its finest lol as a life long Oregonian I applaud this action.
Best part is they consulted with the navy before blowing it up
The best part was the dealership had a sale going on that and I quote “it’s a whale of a deal” 😂
I grew up in Klamath Falls, O.R. and in 2008, we we're shown this in my History Class in Middle School. 😂
Also, in Oregon, we created a "Salmon Cannon." The ability to launch salmon across a dam to save the salmon population.
i thought this was gonna be about the time a b-25 dropped a 1000lb bomb on a dead whale during a patrol, keep in mind this b-25 and its crew were one of the 16 to participate in the doolittle raid, that guy dropped a bomb on a whale because he thought it was a sub, he used the most advanced bombsight in the world at the time to blow up a whale,
I think Willy Pete might've done a good job setting that unrefined lamp oil on fire.
There's a what on the beach?
Where?
Right.
Bob! Get the dynamite!
How much?
Damnit, Bob. All of it. It's always all of it.
As a blue collar worker i can say this: if its dangerous but gets a 10 hour job done in 1 hour, thats the way we do it, as long as the safety guy isnt hanging around
This is still celebrated in Oregon on the anniversary every year.. it's like an actual holiday..
Oregon where looking like you just crawled out of a tent is business casual.. lol
Oregon resident here. We haven’t changed.
I always find the Regan quote "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" funny as its usually taken out of context as just that, but the full quote is "I have always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are I'm from the government and I'm here to help
“Good enough for who it’s for”
-government
Oregon beaches have been administrated by state parks, not ODOT for years. They're not highways "to this day".
There was a children's book in Australia that replicated what happened here but made it Australian. The name of the book escapes me right now😂
Defiantly the Tac Engineer on duty that day said “ Don’t worry I for this”
I love my state, the blown up whale later became the mascot of a local sports team 😂
The sign for Exploding Whale Park is adorable.
I had no idea the MRC-19 was introduced in 1966. When weilded by an expert, it is an impressive weapon
Ok your officially my new favorite TH-cam guy! 😂😂😂 Where or how did you come by this story? I have to know!
They should have dragged it out to sea and then let it sink. You would be surprised at how cool the results on the seafloor would be.
We also have a Bigfoot trap in Oregon.