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.
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So, here's where it all began!
Posted by SoxSweepAgain on Fri Jul 07, 2006 at 01:19 PM
false false false!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by i dont know on Fri Sep 08, 2006 at 09:21 AM
wow i cant beileve that a hippo can really a dwarf its so not possiable i swear 🐍 lol its just not impossible for it to happen well at least i think not
Posted by dj.reap on Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 09:19 AM
It doesn't seem impossible to me. Hippos have a HUGE mouth. They can open their mouth so much that a 4 feet tall child could fit inside their mouth. Now imagine a dwarf...
Their mouth is like a giant cave, it's truly colossal. A dwarf is so small that could easily fit inside their mouth and be swallowed by them.
Maybe hippos don't eat people, but I'm sure they would be able to eat a dwarf.
Posted by Bernardo Santos on Fri Sep 29, 2006 at 07:27 AM
Their mouth is like a giant cave, it's truly colossal. A dwarf is so small that could easily fit inside their mouth and be swallowed by them.
Maybe hippos don't eat people, but I'm sure they would be able to eat a dwarf.
WOW!!! how crazy is that, thats amazing. Poor dwarf.
Posted by Edward Mann on Sun Oct 15, 2006 at 12:42 PM
yeah yeah yeah,,,,
who would believe this shite?
luke is disgusted to learn the truth of the bullshit lol hahahahahahahaha
Posted by me,myself and i on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 05:32 AM
who would believe this shite?
luke is disgusted to learn the truth of the bullshit lol hahahahahahahaha
Holy Atlantic Ocean!!!!! That must of been my long lost cousin! He disappeared after taking his pet hippo on a walk. Well at least we know what happened to him now. Rest his small soul!! :(
Posted by Jacoibia Manaiea on Tue Apr 03, 2007 at 12:08 PM
'The vets said it was the first time the hefty vegetarian had ever eaten a circus performer.'
What a stupid thing to say.
I don't even have a response to that, rediculous comment.
I have to say, it's unfortunate both the hippo and dwarf died, but I did giggle. Does this make me a terrible person?
Posted by Kathryn on Wed Apr 18, 2007 at 09:55 AM
What a stupid thing to say.
I don't even have a response to that, rediculous comment.
I have to say, it's unfortunate both the hippo and dwarf died, but I did giggle. Does this make me a terrible person?
Why are hippos even in circuses? I mean they don't have any circus talent at all!
But, you never know what people do these days. I mean it could happen, a hippo's mouth is pretty big!!! I highly doubt it but, you never really know!!
Posted by Cookie15 on Thu Apr 19, 2007 at 03:48 PM
But, you never know what people do these days. I mean it could happen, a hippo's mouth is pretty big!!! I highly doubt it but, you never really know!!
Kathryn and Cookie 15,
There's a clue in the title of the website:
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/2523/P20/
"hoax"
Posted by percy_strange on Sat May 12, 2007 at 09:13 PM
There's a clue in the title of the website:
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/2523/P20/
"hoax"
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 on Mon May 21, 2007 at 07:14 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 on Thu May 24, 2007 at 08:49 PM
You people are idiots...
Posted by Nathan on Fri Jun 22, 2007 at 02:24 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 04:25 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 on Sun Oct 07, 2007 at 08:42 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 on Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 08:25 PM
I am from Mars
Posted by Homer on Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 08:26 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 on Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 01:17 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 on Sun Feb 10, 2008 at 06:38 AM
Watch out at discovery,
Posted by pattaya on Tue May 13, 2008 at 08:57 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 on Mon Jul 07, 2008 at 02:08 PM
Oh so true, this IS the museum of hoaxes.
Posted by Yes_man on Tue Mar 03, 2009 at 10:49 PM
How silly! Hippos are vegetarians.
Posted by Brian on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 09:02 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 on Thu Sep 10, 2009 at 09:57 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 on Wed Sep 30, 2009 at 06:14 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 on Fri Oct 02, 2009 at 11:24 AM
This story brightened our day and we are in an anti-dwarf league and we advocate the destrustion of ALL dwarfs. If this story was true, I really want to meet Hilda the Hippo
Posted by Emily Gries on Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 06:49 AM
OMG that was probably the greatest thing and the most terrible thing that i've probably ever heard my whole family has laughed so hard about it, it was the greatest DAT DWARF GOT PWNED. :lol:
Posted by matthew weems on Mon Jan 25, 2010 at 08:12 PM
Many of you are retards. Homer...Alligators in Africa? Grow a pair...
Posted by Rob on Mon Oct 04, 2010 at 05:42 AM
Now com on.. this is going too far. A dwarf going to heaven. You think there is a heaven..HEAVEN
for the love of Dawkins...
Posted by IBOS martin on Sat Jul 02, 2011 at 02:49 AM
for the love of Dawkins...
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