Thanks to tipster Adam for letting us know about truckspills.com, which, as should be evident, covers all things related to truck spills. The spill of the week: a 50 foot Sperm Whale, beached in Taiwan, was being taken on the back of a semi to a research center for autopsy when the gasses trapped the behemoth’s stomach exploded across a thoroughfare, covering motorbikes in foul-smelling whale offal and half-ingested giant squid.

I wonder if that kind of stuff happened in our whaling days of yore. After all, Rhode Island’s Royal Charter did note that:

And ffurther, for the encouragement of the inhabitants of our sayd Collony of Providence Plantations to sett vpon the businesse of takeing whales, itt shall bee lawefull For them, or any of them, having struck whale, dubertus, or other greate ffish, itt or them, to pursue unto any parte of that coaste, and into any bay, river, cove, creeke or shoare, belonging thereto, and itt or them, vpon sayd coaste, or in the sand bay, river, cove, creeke or shoare, belonging thereto, to kill and order for the best advantage, without molestation, they makeing noe wilfull waste or spoyle, any thinge in these presents conteyned, or any other matter or thing, to the contrary notwithstanding.

All of which is of course now hella illegal.

You NEED to see the pics after the jump.

Ok, so it happened in 2004. Whatever.

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