Interesting true story of that ilk . . . My friend has a numpty lay-about for a brother and his friends were bored one day so they decided to go and look at a beached whale in the North somewhere about 10yrs ago and see if they could get a tooth as a memento to say they'd seen the whale.
Of course locals got wind and the Police questioned them - a local rag apparently ran a story of people travelling from afar to "steal the whale". A story from nothing more than vague idle curiosity - my friend was laughing cos she knew her brother was too clueless to ever carry out anything so daring. Numpties