The animals are the first to know (the future is hopeless)

First a humpback whale washes ashore in Washington state this week, possibly to avoid the large "dead zone" just off the west coast of the Pacific ocean; next a drunken black bear, maybe to dull the pain of this world, staggers into a Colorado town.




This beast weighs about 50 tons, and is about 54 feet long. No immediate plans for removal have been announced yet.



In the efforts to remove said whale from the Washington beach, there is little doubt that our neighbors will not follow the efforts of the Oregon Department Of Transportation in 1970 by placing dynamite under the beast and blowing the carcass to smithereens. Some links to the original KATU video with reporter Paul Linman, who is no doubt cringing at this memory being dragged up yet again, and stories about the event, which passed into urban legend it seems, are listed just below. Included is a short piece by humourist Dave Barry.







http://www.google.com/search?q=exploding+whale+Oregon&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official">THAR SHE BLOWS!!!



As for the bear, he came across some fermented apples and stumbled into Lyons, Colorado, stinking drunk. Officers gave the bear some unneeded tranquilizer and returned it to the woods to sleep off its hangover.

http://www.katu.com/home/video/4305837.html