The Mystery of the Exploding Whale
January 19th 2012 21:00
Just before Christmas, I had just come home after attending my office Xmas party. I sat down to read the paper and noticed the TV guide mentioned a program called Natural Mysteries. With a title like that, it sounded like In Search of… or William Shatner’s Weird or What? I raced over to the TV.
I had missed the first fifteen minutes of it so I felt as if I had walked in halfway during a play. I was in limbo, unsure of what was going on. The narrator kept mentioning a whale had exploded in the middle of a Taiwanese city and then examined the various explanations that could account for it. All I wanted to know was: Why was it there in the first place?
I kept watching it, hoping for an explanation. During the final fifteen minutes of the show, I finally got one. It turned out the whale had been beached. A researcher came to look at it, hoping it was alive. After he discovered it was dead, he decided to arrange for it to be towed back to his research facility which was how it ended up being in the city when it exploded.
Sometimes being persistent does pay off.
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