The Infamous Exploding Whale

Letters

Here's some of the more interesting messages:

To Whom it may concern-

I saw your webpage URL in a magazine, and being disgusted by the title, decided to see exactly how bad it was. It was worse than I thought. This website is a disgrace to the entire Internet. There is no need for a web page depicting a whale being blown up. If you have nothing better to do with your time, then I suggest you get a hobby. In case you hadn't realized it, younger children are on the Internet. They shouldn't have to be exposed to full-color photographs of a whale carcass being blown up with half a ton of dynamite.

I, and many others, find your page very offensive. We would appreciate it greatly if you would remove it, and/or replace it with another page. Possibly one with pictures of living whales.

Thank you.

hi i just downloaded the 11m version of the exploding whale and unfortunately was half asleep by the time it had finished downloading. i turned everything off without realising that i would not be able to find it when i wanted to.

do you have any idea where i might find this on my computer? what it might be called? it did not give me the option of choosing a site for it so i presumed it would be easy enough to find.

hope you can help - it took nearly three hours to download!!

Thanx so much for the exploding whale page. I've put it on the course home page for my Marine Biology course at [our university].

I'm sure that the students will enjoy it next spring and it teaches a good lesson about "quick and clean" solutions to environmental "problems."

I was there that day, on the dunes, over looking the beach. We were between the whale and parking lot. Parts flew everywhere, with some flying over our heads and as was said, one landed on a car. The owner said "Oh my God, what am I going to tell my insurance man?" He sure had a sick look on his face. It took days to get the smell out of our hair and clothes. Everything was very oily. Days before, someone had taken a chain saw and removed the lower jaw of the whale. The day they blew the whale is one day I'll always remember. I'll not do that again.

Is it much fun to see an animal explode? Very intelligent!!

I hope somtimes your girl(or boy-) friend get blown up or roadkilled you gay pig. Then please, send ME a film of it!!

Dear Sick Moron,

Have you no taste? A web page about an exploding whale? Grow up for chrissakes!! No one cares about a dynamited whale corpse. Can't you think of some better topic to write a web page on?

You have a problem and you need help. I seriously think you should consider visiting a psychologist.

I had always thought that perhaps we, as a people, had gotten past that stage in evolution when we joyfully hacked each other to bits, and laughed about it later over a beer with our friends at the local pub.

So what if the thing was dead? There's no need to have such a disgusting and pointedly vulgar page on the web.

There's a certain amount of deceny in all of us. Maybe more in some than in others. A sense of what is appropriate and what is not. It seems that that scap of moral sense you might have possesed at one time has long since left you. Do the entire Net-Community a favor, and delete that blemish you call a page.