It's not called W(h)ales for nothing....

[emsiewill]

Apologies for the awful thread title. Just wanted to share with you something that's been going on locally over the last couple of days.

The story is here .

I'm really quite sad I only realised this was going on when it was too late to take the dds to see it - it must have been pretty awesome - 60ft long and 30 tonnes. What I don't understand is why people were letting their children climb on it - quite apart from the health aspect, it just seems disrespectful, somehow.

Hi Emsiewill, that would have been a sight to see (although looks a mite gory from the picture). How sad that children were allowed to climb on such a wonderful creature.

Why cut it up and incinerate it - especially when people wanted to preserve the whale? IMO it should have been taken back out to sea and allowed to settle on the ocean floorbed where sea animals could live for years on the body.

There's some more pictures here .

Not quite as gory as it appears on the picture from the local newspaper (it's the orange plastic fencing that looks like blood around the whale, I think).

Someone we know went yesterday and saw it being cut up - she said it was not a pretty sight.

Wow, my ds would have liked to have seen that too emsiewill. I wouldn't have let him climb on it either.