@xris a journalistic gem

It really is difficult to get rid of a dead whale. From 2014: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/newfoundland-town-holds-a-blowout-sale-for-sperm-whale-carcass-on-ebay/article18460085/ (archive: https://archive.ph/ZStUp)

> Wayne Ledwell of Newfoundland’s Whale Release and Strandings, an expert on saving entangled whales, had advised the town to tow the whale out to an isolated area and let “nature take its course.”
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> The mayor said they had tried that. They asked a local fisherman, the one with the largest boat in town, to tow it away but he took one look at it and didn’t think his engine was big enough.
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> “They need to do that right away, when they come in and they’re fresh,” Mr. Ledwell says. “No one wants to go touch them … everything becomes gooey and slippery and you can’t stand up on the whale and it gets on your boots and you can’t get the smell off and then you go home and the dog rolls in it and you get it in your kitchen and you curse the whales, and you curse the government and … it becomes a mess.”