What I was getting at was today's Oregonians would have had a huge debate on whether to use the meat to feed the homeless, or use crystal chi power to levitate the carcass back into the ocean. Or similar nonsense.
You wildly mis estimate the Oregonians outside of the I5 corridor. Remember, this is the same state that had a federal standoff while occupying federal buildings over a land dispute like 4 years ago.
Point taken, shouldn't judge the whole state by the residents of Portland.
Well.... not the Oregonians from modern Florence at least. I guarantee if this lesson hadn't been learned here, it would have been learned in one of the many other small coastal towns dotting the coast line.