Moment authorities failed to dispose of a dead baby whale in a dumpster


Moment authorities failed to dispose of a dead baby whale in a dumpster

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ABOUT: The horrifying moment authorities tried and failed to dispose of a 4,000 pound dead baby whale in a dumpster has been caught on camera.The whale carcass washed up on Jenness Beach in Rye, New Hampshire on Monday.Officials believe the baby whale likely died after getting tangled up in fishing lines close to the coast.The 16-foot carcass was hauled off the beach using a front end loader and carried to a dumpster in a nearby parking lot so it could be taken away for a necropsy.The 16-foot whale was hauled off the beach in Rye, New Hampshire, on Monday using a front end loader and carried to a dumpster in a nearby parking lot A dead whale that flopped off the side of a dumpster because it didn’t fit spent last night in the parking lot of Jenness Beach in Rye #NH.The state finally delivered a bigger dumpster this a.m.to haul the whale to a composting site for an autopsy. pic.twitter.com/vIo49tB27c — Jason Schreiber (@Schreibernews) September 18, 2018 But when crews went to drop the whale into the dumpster, the carcass ended up just flopping onto the concrete after authorities misjudged its size.Video shot by bystanders showed the front end loader hovering the whale over the dumpster.Despite the carcass being visibly larger than the dumpster, crews still went ahead and dropped the whale.Rye Police Chief Kevin Walsh has since apologized for the ordeal, saying there was a miscommunication in trying to remove the bio-hazard as quickly as possible.Video shot by bystanders showed the front end loader hovering the whale over the dumpster.Despite the carcass being visibly larger than the dumpster, crews still went ahead and dropped the whale When crews went to drop the whale into the dumpster, the carcass ended up just flopping onto the concrete after authorities misjudged its size 'That was a mistake that shouldn't have happened and I take full responsibility for that,' he told NBC.'We said, 'baby whale,' so everyone thought it was a small whale.'We should have measured the length of the animal so it was clear what size container we would need.'Walsh said they had planned to drop the whale into the dumpster diagonally after realizing it was too big.He said they had a plan to cover its tail when transporting it.After the mishap, the whale carcass remained on the concrete over night until a larger container arrived on Tuesday.

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