It might have been time

So this dead whale that has been rotting on a beach outside San Francisco for seven months was buried today. It took seven months to notice something needed to be done. People have been complaining and all that, but evidently the smell reached the necessary seven month stink threshold. I like the part where it took seven months to do something. Now the public works director from Pacifica acts like it's no big deal, saying "We've been getting calls, and the smell is bad and it's affecting our residents, so we figured we might as well deal with it."