Woman Driving Through South Carolina Hits Hippopotamus

[General Grizz]

BEAUFORT, S.C. -- Sharon Anderson had no idea what was headed her way on a county road when her car struck and killed a pygmy hippopotamus.

The 500-pound animal had wandered away from a plantation and into the path of Anderson's car on a Beaufort County road, the Carolina Morning News reported for Friday editions.

Anderson, 28, wasn't sure what she had hit and called sheriff's deputies, who found the animal dead Monday night.

Anderson said the plantation's owner, Joel Silver, producer of "The Matrix" franchise, told her he'd owned the female hippo for eight years and didn't know how she'd wandered away.

The hippo was one of several wild animals kept at Auldbrass Plantation, a 40-acre plantation in Yemassee built by Frank Lloyd Wright. The plantation includes an aviary with exotic birds, zebras and cattle. The hippo lived in a pond.

Anderson was not injured and her car had only minor damage.

Pygmy hippos are half the size of other hippos, weighing about 400 to 500 pounds and standing about 3 feet tall. They live on both water and land and are usually found in West African nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and the Ivory Coast.

 

[The_CEO]

HA HA!!! Poor Hippo.

 

[tigsmom]

And here I thought it was a slow news day. :lol:

 

[Woody13]

The University of Colorado (Denver) was doing research on the aging process of dolphins and porpoises, injecting them with an extract from the brains of baby seagulls. The success rate was very promising, slowing the process considerably, and some of the animals were apparantly not aging at all.
They had no problem obtaining the test animals, but since Denver is so high, they had to truck in the gulls from Utah, and the west coast. During one of the shipments coming in, however, the truck driver ran over a wild animal that had earlier escaped from the Denver State Zoo and found its way on to I70.
The driver was promptly arrested for crossing state lions with young gulls for immortal porpoises.

 

[tigsmom]

Originally posted by Woody13
The University of Colorado (Denver) was doing research on the aging process of dolphins and porpoises, injecting them with an extract from the brains of baby seagulls. The success rate was very promising, slowing the process considerably, and some of the animals were apparantly not aging at all.
They had no problem obtaining the test animals, but since Denver is so high, they had to truck in the gulls from Utah, and the west coast. During one of the shipments coming in, however, the truck driver ran over a wild animal that had earlier escaped from the Denver State Zoo and found its way on to I70.
The driver was promptly arrested for crossing state lions with young gulls for immortal porpoises.

OY!!!!!! :lol:

Good one.

 

[Lovecraft]

Now that's my style!

I want enough money so that I can have exotic animals etc. that when they escape I can be the one that says "Weird, my pygmy hippo never ran away before..." matter of factly.

 

[MouseMadness]

Originally posted by Lovecraft
Now that's my style!

I want enough money so that I can have exotic animals etc. that when they escape I can be the one that says "Weird, my pygmy hippo never ran away before..." matter of factly.

ROFLMAO! Nice

That story is just weird. I feel bad for the pygmy hippo, and Joel Silver I suppose... but... weird! The fact that it was a pygmy hippo makes me chuckle. Because pygmy hippo is funny to say. and because it's 3 a.m. :hammer:

 

[Lovecraft]

dang it

I can't sleep and now pygmy hippo sounds funny to me too.

I am currently babbling it to myself in amusement in between sneezing.

 

[aim]

Awwww, the poor hippo! That does sound funny to say! LOL pygmy hippo :lol:

 

[imagineer boy]

I wonder though what the hippo was like once the car hit it.

"Uuh, Bob, where's the hippo?"

( looks at hands after trying to move wreaked car ) "Uuh, I think I've found some of it."

 

[Fbody7139]

I was 8 when this happened to us and it was like hitting a brick wall I screamed like a baby but the car was fine drivers side of the bumper was bent that’s it and Mr.joe got it stuffed in his office on the plantation