Spit It Out!

DISCLAIMER : Breaking reports indicate that the kid was "swallowed" on Dec. 12 of this year. Seems to be some wildly variations in the reporting of this incident. Go figure.

 Dateline Lake Katwe, Uganda...A 2 year old child, a boy, was swallowed by a hippopotamus as the child played at his home. The boy name of Iga Paul, is playing outside his home as the hippo wandered up the road and grabbed the child and commenced to swallow the kid whole. Head first mind you. The hippo had came to town from Lake Edward which is reported to be about 800 meters from Lake Katwe where the boy lives with family. So, hippo swallowed the child, head first and had the kid just about swallowed when a neighbor witnessed the hippo munching the kid and the neighbor jumped into action and started pitching rocks at the hippo which caused the hippo to spit the child out. Remember back in the day when Milton Bradley came out with the game 'Hungry Hungry Hippos'? Who knew that the game would be prophetic. Now National Geographic, THE National Geographic of magazine and exploration fame, decided they'd better chime in as the 'knowledgable authority' on the child eating hippo issue and NatGeo stated quite authoritatively that "hippos are generally vegetarian. However and on occasion the hippos can and will be mercilessly brutal and kill between 500 to 3,000 people each and every year." The NatGeo stated number makes hippos one of our Planet's most deadly 'vegetarian' animals. Gosh, who knew. I always thought that hippos were cute and cuddly and fluff crap like that. Well...best not try cuddling with an African hippo anywhere around Uganda or Africa anywhere for that matter. Dang hippos will bite your gaddanged head off or worse than that. You just might end up being appetizer for a hungry hippo OR any hippo that happens to have had a bad day and is in no mood for cuddling or being close to humans. Young or old. Anyway the kid was taken to a local hospital and treated for hippo related wounds and is going to be just fine and none the worse for having been swallowed by a hippo. I'm fairly certain that the kid will be traumatized for years to come. Nightmares and an innate fear of hippos and just about any African predator. Oh yes and the hippo incident happened last April and is just now being reported to our larger world. Now how about some Saturday machine art. No child eating hippos were harmed in the posting of Saturday machine art.

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I take a great deal of pleasure using AI software to create. I'm really never certain what's gonna turn out. 😉

p.s. - a Colombian drug lord imported several African hippos to Columbia some time back and the hippos are enjoying the Columbian countryside and find the place quite to their, the hippos, liking. they are reproducing like any happy and not hungry hippo might while staying in the "wilds" of Columbia. I have a feeling this is not the end of the story. ☺