Leo Lichtman wrote:

I don't remember where this happened, but a couple of months back, on the
news, there was a report about a beached whale. Some *brilliant* person
decided to blow it up, instead of moving it away, with similar results.

Actually it was some years ago and to save money the local authorities
decided to use about 500 lb of explosives in the hope that by blowing
it up into small hunks that it would wash out to sea and nature would
take it's course.

Instead there was flying blubber everywhere including a large chunk
that fell on some guys car about a quarter mile away and totalled it.

There's an MPEG floating around the web that shows it including the
announcer's reaction when the video crew started to get pummeled by
dropping whale parts.