Flying with Fred » dwarf http://blog.flyingfred0.com Your one-stop shop for everything Fred Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:41:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 In Other News, Hippo Eats Dwarf http://blog.flyingfred0.com/2008/12/16/in-other-news-hippo-eats-dwarf/ http://blog.flyingfred0.com/2008/12/16/in-other-news-hippo-eats-dwarf/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:24:12 +0000 fred http://blog.flyingfred0.com/?p=69 Hippo YawnThis post is completely random. Well, not quite… I found it via my Twitter feed here. Not to mention, the hippo’s wide open mouth is a perfect follow up to the previous post on yawning. Just looking at that pic of a yawning hippo makes me yawn. In case you’re wondering, I took that photo in 2006 at the Werribee Open Range Zoo. Oh, and no midgets little people were harmed while writing this post.

BANGKOK: A hippopotamus swallowed a circus dwarf in a “freak accident” in northern Thailand, according to a columnist in the Pattaya Mail.

So how’d it happen? Apparently the dwarf bounced off the trampoline the wrong way.  Yeah.

Here’s the original post:

http://criggo.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/do-you-often-see-a-headline-like-this/

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