Mission Mission » Ocean Beach http://www.missionmission.org Saluting San Francisco's Mission District Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:47:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 So What Exactly Do You Do With a Dead Whale, Anyway? http://www.missionmission.org/2010/09/21/so-what-exactly-do-you-do-with-a-dead-whale-anyway/ http://www.missionmission.org/2010/09/21/so-what-exactly-do-you-do-with-a-dead-whale-anyway/#comments Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:07:39 +0000 Vic Wong http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=17890 I took the day off and found myself near ground zero of Whaletastrophe 2010. In case you haven’t heard, a gashed, likely endangered, whale washed up on the shore of Ocean Beach yesterday. The whale is located near Great Highway and Judah street, and it’s a must-see for anyone with a morbid curiosity for dead marine mammals. I was surprised to find that the smell wasn’t so bad after all. The tidepools at Sutro Baths smell much, much worse.

So what exactly do you do with a dead whale, you ask? No, you don’t blow it up with dynamite. Why does everyone think that, anyway?

Turns out you get a bunch of tractors out there, dig a huge hole, and give it a proper burial:

And I guess if you’re an aspiring street artist named “RATS”, you would tag it:

No word on how they are going to drag it into the hole without the thing falling apart and spilling guts everywhere, but I assume the guys on the job are used to this sort of thing.

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