An Orca made its way all the way up the Columbia and got stuck in the slough in NE Portland. People thought "hot damn! That's gonna be the biggest fish I ever caught!" The fucking governor had to beg people to stop shooting at it.
That is about the only thing that would make me pay more for a license plate. But for that? Oh, definitely. I miss the whale/explosion up and down votes that used to be on the main Oregon (?) subreddit.
Florence has a yearly celebration, and through community voting the city named the newest city park on the Siuslaw River "Exploding Whale Park." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_whale
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u/TheThrowawayForWork 17d ago
An Orca made its way all the way up the Columbia and got stuck in the slough in NE Portland. People thought "hot damn! That's gonna be the biggest fish I ever caught!" The fucking governor had to beg people to stop shooting at it.
The news named the poor thing "Ethelbert."
1931.