I love exploding whale stories.
There is also this incident...I don't know where....but some beach city needed to transport a bloated whale carcass from the beach to some other location, for some reason, and because the whale had already attracted some attention, they decided to route the transport through the tiny downtown and schedule an impromptu "micro parade," so that the townsfolk could line up and watch the whale carcass.
Well, the bloating, of course...is what happens to dead things. When they are filled with bacteria, and the bacteria generates waste in the form of gas, which causes bloating and, like a balloon, only has a certain tolerance to withstand a certain amount of pressure. So, as with this whale, during its procession through the quaint little town with all the happy little people gathered around to watch it, the pressure just became too much, and the carcass exploded on the flatbed that was transporting it....dispersing rancid whale goo and blood and blubber and bacteria all over town, and all over the little people.
Kinda wish I was there.