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Hippo Eats Dwarf
I came across this peculiar news story about a hippo eating a dwarf. It's been floating around the internet for a while, though I'm not sure exactly how long. Google 'hippo eats dwarf' and you'll pull up a bunch of pages. There's even a band named Hippo Eats Dwarf. The article has been circulating as an image file of a scanned article (click the thumbnail), but here's the text of it:A hippopotamus has swallowed a dwarf in a circus accident in northern Thailand. "A dwarf, nicknamed Od, died when he bounced sideways from a trampoline and was swallowed by a yawning hippopotamus, which was waiting to appear in the next act," the Pattaya Mail reported. "Vets on the scene said Hilda the Hippo had a gag reflex which automatically caused her to swallow." The vets said it was the first time the hefty vegetarian had ever eaten a circus performer. "Unfortunately, the 1000 plus spectators continued to applaud wildly until common sense dictated there had been a tragic mistake. Police said the trampoline has been sent for forensic analysis."
The one true detail in the story is that the Pattaya Mail did indeed report this. However, everything else seems far too outlandish to possibly be true. Though, who knows. Weird things can happen.
Listed in chronological order. Newest comments at the end.
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people are dumb "how do you swallow a dwarf?!?!?!" stupid. hippos are huge. there mouths could EASY swallow a dwarf. even a normal sized human. and yes, you can jump sideways from trampolines, you just have to not be handicapped, stupids. it could totally be true, but probably is not
Posted by Alexei in canada on Mon May 21, 2007 at 05:14 PM
For nine and a half years I raised hippos for fun and profit (I found there is more money in alligators though and switched) and I can assure you that a full grown hippo of either sex can swallow a dwarf. Anything that eats 200 kilos of grass everyday, as a hippo does, has no problem with something weighing 35 kilos.
Posted by Gospacho Holsteen in Florida on Thu May 24, 2007 at 06:49 PM
You people are idiots...
Posted by Nathan in Austin, TX on Fri Jun 22, 2007 at 12:24 PM
this is funny lol my mate is only 4ft i think im going to buy me a hippo! cmon all u midgets i got a hippo and im not afraid to use her ive also got a trampoline to bounce off into a hippos mouth lol
Posted by gary on Thu Jul 12, 2007 at 02:25 AM
Nope Hippo can swallow a man whole, as they can dislocate their jaw.
But for the dwarf to fall directly into hippo mouth and have it swalloed is much harder as hippo would have to be prepared and the landing must be perfect.
Posted by zinny999 in Sydney on Sun Oct 07, 2007 at 06:42 PM
But for the dwarf to fall directly into hippo mouth and have it swalloed is much harder as hippo would have to be prepared and the landing must be perfect.
I believe the stupid dwarf got gagged down, hippos kill more people in Africa than all the other animals COMBINED, even cheetahs, lions, and alligators.
Posted by Homer in Mars, Alabama on Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 06:25 PM
I am from Mars
Posted by Homer in Mars, Alabama on Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 06:26 PM
this is retarted!!
Me AND MY FRIENDS HAVE TO DO A PROJECT AND THIS DOES NOT HELP.
WE NEED MAN EATING HIPPOS.
NOT FAKE HIPPOS EATING DWARFS.
AR ETHEY EVEN REALL!!!
Posted by SALLY ANDERSON in idaho on Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 12:17 PM
Me AND MY FRIENDS HAVE TO DO A PROJECT AND THIS DOES NOT HELP.
WE NEED MAN EATING HIPPOS.
NOT FAKE HIPPOS EATING DWARFS.
AR ETHEY EVEN REALL!!!
Anyway, to prove this come along to thailand.
Posted by thailandprof in thailand on Sun Feb 10, 2008 at 05:38 AM
Watch out at discovery,
Posted by pattaya in thailand on Tue May 13, 2008 at 06:57 PM
several hears ago at the detroit zoo a kid threw a tennis ball onto the mouth of a hippo and the thing lodged in the hippos throat and it choked to death. so unless that dwarf was smaller in diamiter than a tennis ball the story is very funny but nothing more.
Posted by mark in detroit on Mon Jul 07, 2008 at 12:08 PM
Oh so true, this IS the museum of hoaxes.
Posted by Yes_man in America on Tue Mar 03, 2009 at 09:49 PM
How silly! Hippos are vegetarians.
Posted by Brian on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 07:02 AM
AWWWWW...
OMG the poor little thing!..
I hope he goes to heaven!..
Such innocence!..
Awful way to die!..
He's happier in heaven..
Jumping all around there..
Praying for his sweet little soul!
Posted by Patty Ross in Jakarta on Thu Sep 10, 2009 at 07:57 AM
OMG the poor little thing!..
I hope he goes to heaven!..
Such innocence!..
Awful way to die!..
He's happier in heaven..
Jumping all around there..
Praying for his sweet little soul!
I knew a fat Thai bitch when I was in Nam that we called Chi Hippo she swallowed many a midget. Ofcourse she swallowed many a GI and a lot of seamen on leave
Posted by Trashy in Wilmington,DE on Wed Sep 30, 2009 at 04:14 PM
i believe it happend beacause i have swallowed a midget also and its real easy because they are so small!!
Posted by Dalton Shawn in Iowa on Fri Oct 02, 2009 at 09:24 AM
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