Hippo eats dwarf!?!

Arkanjel

Arkanjel

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Im not sure if this is even true, but it has to be seen. Very funny, yet sad for the poor dwarf who never saw it coming.:eek:

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Poor guy... that must be a bad way to go. Heh, imagine him up in heaven talking to St. Peter....

"How'd you die?"
"Um... a hippo ate me..."
 
Nope, it's a hoax.

Via UrbanLegends.About.com

Hippo Eats Dwarf

Via Museum of Hoaxes, news that a dwarf named Od was swallowed by a hippopotamus in a freak circus accident in northern Thailand. Ouch! Supposedly, an off-kilter bounce hurled the trampoline performer smack dab into the animal's open jaws. "Vets on the scene said Hilda the Hippo had a gag reflex that automatically caused her to swallow," explains a story taken from the Pattaya Mail.

We know it couldn't have happened very recently — if it happened at all — given that the tale is listed as a "1999 urban legend" by the Darwin Awards folks. In point of fact, the story is at least five years older than that, as evidenced by a December 15, 1994 Usenet posting purportedly quoting the Las Vegas Sun:

An Austrian circus dwarf died recently when he bounced sideways from a trampoline and was swallowed by a hippopotamus. Seven thousand people watched as little Franz Dasch popped into the mouth of Hilda the Hippo and the animal's gag reflex forced it to swallow. The crowd applauded wildly before other circus people realized what has happened.

Note that in the 1994 version the dwarf is Austrian and his name is Franz Dasch. There's no mention of the incident occurring in Thailand.

If this isn't an urban legend I'll swallow a dwarf myself.
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More complete entry at Snopes.com
 
So hippos have contributed to the death of two dwarfs?
LOL.
And people think Circus Elephants are dangerous.

j/k
 
Actually, one reporter suggested it was a serial killer hippo!

On researching the matter, I discovered much to arouse my suspicions. For example, people say the whole thing is an urban myth dating back at least to 1999, while even five years before that, the Manchester Evening News is said to have run a story about Austrian dwarf Franz Dasch who bounced off a trampoline into the mouth of a hippo named Hilda.

There are only two possibilities: either the story is one of those practical jokes masquerading as fact that does the rounds every few years to ensnare a new pack of gullible readers, or Hilda is a serial killer among circus hippos with a consuming passion for dwarfs. The change in name and nationality of the dwarf strongly suggests the urban myth hypothesis, but we cannot dismiss the other possibility
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(From the same snopes link)

Love it! That's my new theory!
 
Maybe once the get a taste of dwarfs, they find all other food tasteless. Lions and sharks are that way with humans, why wouldn't hippos?
 
All I have to say is it's a good thing that I wasn't swallowed by that hippo, or there would have been 1,002 deaths. Me, the hippo who choked on me, and the 1,000 spectators who died of laughter.
 
Hippos do kill more tourists in Africa than lions. Maybe it's all a masquerade... hippos are really God's check and balance of the circus dwarf population.
 
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