A friend told me the other day that he read in a newspaper of a tragic accident at the circus where a dwarf was fired out of a cannon straight into the mouth of a hippopotamus (this was not part of the act) and promptly died from being crushed.What a way to go. I thought hippos were herbivores.
Do you have any interesting tragic death stories?
2006-07-21 11:45:43 · 28 answers · asked by black magic 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Well that doesn't mean the hippo ate him, just crushed him inbetween his teeth.
2006-07-21 11:47:33 · answer #1 · answered by silenthavens 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well ponder this for a second, hippos are the dealiest animal in the world. They kill something like 5 times more than the next most dangerous animal.. (I forgot the real numbers) but the problem with hippos is they are incredibly tempermental and VERY teritorial, so they really just dont like people, as for the cannon into the mouth thing,.. well thats just plain weird
2006-07-21 11:51:16 · answer #2 · answered by tybardy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Odds are against it being true... how about that zoo keeper who was washing an elephants rear... the elephant stooped and the keepers head actually went into the elephants ***, saw it happen! Don't know if its intresting... alovely girl i knew got of a coach at night to stretch her legs... decided to go for a pee... jumped over a wall, and fell a good distance onto train tracks in the path of an oncoming train... certainly tragic though.
2006-07-21 12:07:37 · answer #3 · answered by KaSystemA8 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO! Hippos would never be in a circus. They spend TOO much time in water. It would be too expensive to have to lug around the amount of water it needs to COOL off.
2006-07-21 11:55:55 · answer #4 · answered by carla22258 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, it could be true.if a midget was fired out if a cannon and accidentally landed in the mouth of a hippo,the hippo might close his mouth to get whatever landed in his mouth out
2006-07-21 11:50:24 · answer #5 · answered by Angel_Anton 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some years ago, a TV channel went to a farm to film a duck that had learned to bark off the sheep dogs. When the TV crew turned up, they reversed their TV Wagon into the farm gate and ran over the duck!
2006-07-21 11:49:18 · answer #6 · answered by Blade 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The hippo could have still crushed him. If he went straight into it's mouth, the hippo might have closed it's mouth autmatically.
2006-07-21 11:49:49 · answer #7 · answered by Evil J.Twin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No its not true. The man was fired into an elephant's butt as the elephant was being fed by Ryan Seacrest.
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2006-07-21 11:48:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i remember reading a story about a boat in russia that was sunk by a herd cows falling from the sky. Apparently they fell out of a plane that was transporting them somewhere, i don't know if anyone was killed but just makes you think the papers are full of ****
2006-07-21 11:52:21 · answer #9 · answered by fishfinger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no i dont think its a true story,and yeah i have a tragic death story there was this one time a kid fell off a farris wheel and died,it was about 100ft. tall or something like that i cant remember excactly every detail but yup!!
2006-07-21 11:51:59 · answer #10 · answered by jazpena_17 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read about a guy that was out fishing and got shot by a fish!! He caught the thing, and assuming it to be dead, placed it next to his gun. The fish would of appeared to have flapped about and hit the trigger, shooting the chap in the stomach!! Of course, none of this could be proven, as the fish couldn't talk!!
2006-07-21 11:52:17 · answer #11 · answered by Fluke 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋