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Posted: 8/11/2017 5:51:36 PM EDT
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A Michigan woman was killed while on African safari with her family on Aug. 5.Carol Sue Kirken, 75, "died quickly in the arms of her son Robert" while on an annual holiday with her family in Tanzania View Quote |
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From her online obit...
"Having past 75 years old, she was resolutely shooting for 100," the obituary reads. View Quote eta...not a way I'd want to go ever, and pretty sure it was the farthest thing from her mind if she ever wondered about how she'd eventually shuffle off her mortal coil! |
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Hippos truly are nature's assholes.
We should extinctify them to make an example to other species. |
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Hippos are one of those animals. most folks have no idea just how dangerous they are.
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Those are very dangerous animals and kill a lot of people in the water
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lions may be kings of the jungle but hippos kill more people in africa than any other animal.
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probably more people in Africa killed by hippos than any other animal (mosquitoes & amoebas aside)
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An animal that can get a hay bale in its mouth is not an animal that you want pissed off at you.
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Indeed. The Capatick safari novels were quite clear the hippo beats all the others in temper and sheer pissed off killing. Stomping you to paste in a mudhole is their preferred method although a bite will get you with infection just as dead. They are more deadly by far than the elephant.
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She should have known to stay away from the Hungry Hungry Hippo. My son learned that from Milton Bradley years ago.
Too soon? |
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I guarantee you that old bitch was doing something stupid/unsafe to be killed like that.
Everyone initially feels sorry for something like this until they find out it was the victim's own idiocy that got them killed. |
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So Hippos are kinda like hounds, in that they're both assholes?
But a Hippo has more ass than Taylor Swift? Am I getting all of this correct? |
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So Hippos are kinda like hounds, in that they're both assholes? But a Hippo has more ass than Taylor Swift? Am I getting all of this correct? View Quote Attached File |
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From her online obit... "Past"? Really? Poor woman. To be trampled to death by a hippo, and then have her online obit read like a third grader wrote it. Her death was full of indignities all the way round. eta...not a way I'd want to go ever, and pretty sure it was the farthest thing from her mind if she ever wondered about how she'd eventually shuffle off her mortal coil! View Quote |
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Hippo doing hippo shit.
Spent 3.5 months hiking through east Africa. They are scary animals up close. |
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Anything Nile crocs, rhinos, and lions are afraid of is probably bad news.
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Just got back from the zoo.
Monkeys, wolves, hippos and big cats. All make me jittery. |
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He got that double rifle back in line pretty quick.
I wonder, what round for hippo? |
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I guarantee you that old bitch was doing something stupid/unsafe to be killed like that. Everyone initially feels sorry for something like this until they find out it was the victim's own idiocy that got them killed. View Quote Africa is a dangerous place and you don't have to be old and stupid for something unfortunate to happen. We're the 2 PHs killed this year dumbasses? One got curbed stomped by an elephant and the other eaten by crocs. |
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When the natives give something a wide berth, time to respect the big fuckers.
The sound that hippos make is enough to keep a smart and sane person away. Any guide worth a fuck keeps their guest(s) a safe distance from these things. She fucked up, no doubt. |
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Condolences to the family but it really is not a Safari if you are not hunting.
Just Sayin. |
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I would rather go out like that than waiting around while somebody rolled me over every other day to minimize bed sores.
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Something that swims around with huge alligators is not to be messed with.
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They are massive animals, and can kill you without even trying.
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