Women cause outrage by taking selfies on top of a beached whale. And it gets worse.

Feb 22, 2018 | 12:44 AM

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The worldwide thirst for the edgiest selfie took a dark turn this week when beach goers in Chile were caught mounting a 66-foot beached whale for their Instagram photos.

A researcher at the Museum of Natural History Río Seco, Gabriela Garrido, told the Chilean newspaper La Nacion she spotted roughly 50 people taking photos on and around the whale.

"I had a lot of anger, a lot of impotence," she told La Nacion. One of the many beach go-ers even carved initials into the whale's body.

https://twitter.com/rodrigo_sm/status/965319091530731520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeople.com%2Fpets%2Fbeached-blue-whale-graffiti-chile%2F

Shortly after photos of the deceased whale spread, the Chilean Navy constructed a perimeter to prevent onlookers from continuing to vandalize the body.

Many people online are rightfully disgusted by the deeply disrespectful treatment of the beached whale.

They won't respect the living. They won't respect the dead. https://t.co/hRsBNRXYsj
-via @inshorts
— Shreya Nath (@The_WriterGirl) February 21, 2018

I feel terrible for that poor animal. https://t.co/eFDWaC3Ee9
— Best Funny Vines (@BestVines24) February 21, 2018

All a bit sad really. For the #BlueWhale and us. https://t.co/sv2OyiCqUD
— Silent Killer Killer (@ShiftStuff_LDN) February 21, 2018

Blue whale carcass carved into, stomped on by tourists taking selfies on top of the creature - Authorities were appalled to discover a 66-foot-long, beached blue whale along the coast of Punta Delgada, Chile, desecrated with graffiti and surrounded by... https://t.co/jhODwou6tw
— Space Nuts (@SpaceNutsPodcst) February 22, 2018

A pitiful end for a titan of the sea: Blue whale carcass is stomped on by people taking selfies and covered in GRAFFITI saying 'Ana I love you' after washing up on a beach https://t.co/XWFnGc67Ag #OpWhales #RacingExtinction
— Albi Deak (@AlbiDeak) February 21, 2018

Blue whale carcass is stomped on and covered with GRAFFITI in Chile. The more I see the news, the more I’m convinced the human race is definitely going backwards #morons #pondlife https://t.co/9mOFi6ahrV
— Philip Morris (@phil500) February 20, 2018

This concludes installment 8,095 of the ongoing series: "Why are human beings like this?!"

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