I'm all for naming an asteroid "Acapulco", though.

A gold-bearing asteroid, naturally.

Exact. Same. Guess. on my end.

Otis is the name of one of the Fat Bear Week audience favorites so that was where my first thoughts went but I was very surprised to imagine an “Acapulco, Alaska” near where he lives.

In fairness, anyone who didn't immediately recognize 128 Grazer as the fattest bear is probably frequently confused :P

I somehow thought it was an obscure motorcycle brand, that broke down on a long road trip in Mexico.

First thought: Otis the dog was improperly put into the some kind of vacuum hold on a flight to Acapulco and burst wide open.

Same.

This tells me you don't know Jean-Paul Belmondo's movie The Man from Acapulco. Seriously watch that movie.

One of my favorite actors from the non-Hollywood movies. Oh, and that movie is originally titled 'Le Magnifique' to help searching for it.

I was thinking elevators

I know what Acapulco is, but when reading "Otis" I first think of elevators, which very rarely explode...

One thing that they have in common with nice girls.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093617/

My first thought is always the pug dog from Milo & Otis.

If I heard that Otis exploded after visiting Acapulco, I wouldn't really consider that unexpected, but admittedly that's only based on personal anecdata.

It’s unexpected on the way back, not on the way there.

I guessed the correct Acapulco then hypothesized that Otis was something being transported by truck to there. I even thought that Cape Canaveral or a lab like CERN would be a more likely destination for dangerous things that people like us would care about.

I assumed Otis was a indy dev library project and Acapulco to be a code name for a upcoming release.

I thought Otis was half of the adorable Milo and Otis duo and they were having another zany adventure in a 2023 reboot!

"Otis" was also the name of a Kanye West/JayZ song so I was thinking maybe it had something to do with that??

This song was a tribute to Otis Redding. My first thought was that the article was about him lol.

I was sure it was some kind of specific machine or package that was destroyed by catastrophic decompression caused by transport mode.

I assumed it was a small sailboat or similar, on the basis that if it was a cruise liner or large container ship, I would’ve heard about it already

From the url it seems the target audience for this blog would already know

I imagined that a prototype device of some sort that was being shipped to Acapulco pulverized the truck or ship that was transporting it

I don't know why, I first thought of an airplane. Yeah, headlining is an art...