南加州海灘驚現6萬磅腐爛鯨魚屍體!

Crews on last Friday finished removing the 60,000-pound carcass of a rotting whale from a Southern California beach.

上週五，相關工作人員已經完成了對南加利福尼亞州海灘上出現的一具重達60000磅的腐爛鯨魚屍體的移動工作。

A contractor working for the state parks department spent two days using an excavator to cut up the 40-foot whale, which was hauled off to a San Diego County landfill.

據悉，該州公園管理局的承包商花了兩天的時間，用挖掘機對這頭長40尺的鯨魚進行肢解，然後將其拉到聖地亞哥的一個垃圾填埋場。

"As they started to dismember the carcass, they said it was messy but it wasn't as messy as it could have been," Rich Haydon, area state parks superintendent, told the Orange County Register. "It's to be expected there will be a little bit of a smell down there for a while," he said, "but I think we dodged a bullet."

該州區公園負責人裏奇·海登接受橘郡紀事報採訪時表示：“據工作人員稱，當他們開始肢解鯨魚的時候非常麻煩，卻又沒有想象地那麼麻煩。可以預想的是，最近一陣子那裏還是會有一股味道。但是我認爲我們已經躲過了一劫。”

The whale was a tourist attraction for a few days. Despite an overpowering stench, some people skipped work or school to snap photos with the towering carcass. However, few people were on hand Friday for the finish.

最近幾天，那頭鯨魚都是該海灘的一大旅遊景點。儘管臭氣熏天，一些人還是放下工作或者逃課來拍攝這具巨大的鯨魚腐屍。不過卻幾乎沒有人來協助完成最後的處理工作。

Nick Lind of Newport Beach and Matthew Howell of San Clemente were surfing as the last remnants of the whale were being removed.

當清理鯨魚最後的殘骸時，紐波特海灘的尼克·林德和聖克萊蒙特的馬修·豪厄爾正在衝浪。

"It did have an interesting stench to it, sort of like a rotten baked potato," Lind said. "It was overpowering when we were near shore." Lind said he wasn't worried about sharks that might have been attracted by the whale's remains.

“臭味很特別，就像腐爛的烤土豆，” 林德說，“我們在岸邊都能聞到一股惡臭”。林德還表示，他並不擔心會有鯊魚被這頭鯨魚的腐屍吸引過來。