Man Mauled To Death By Pet Hippo
 

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So what makes this video especially creepy and oozing with tragic irony. Marius Els was a farmer in South Africa who had raised Humphrey the hippo since it was a baby. Els' body was discovered last week, ripped apart by the hippo's razor sharp teeth. The fate of the hippo remains unknown.

Ah, this old story again. Pet hippo mauling.

Oh no! What would Carl Pikington make of it?

damn, cant even be friends with a hippo, fucking world.

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:1orglaugh R.I.P.

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What a painfull way to die...

Hippos are actually mean bastards and are responsible for more deaths in Africa than just about any other animal.

The only animals who rob, rape (even babies in order to "cure" themselves of HIV), and murder more humans (they often rob rape and murder entire familes) are the South Africans themselves. BTW, remember to spread the love today! We are truly "all one".

Pet Hippo's gone rogue..what has this world come to.:upsidedow

its a wild animal, what do you expect?

this is nature's way of weeding out the idiots.

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I love how these people say they love and have a special connection with their wild pet. The animal then kills them and is then destroyed

It's a wild animal.

A fight between a hippo and a crocodile is a toss-up.

You wouldn't swim with a croc, would you?

Lesson: don't keep a fucking Hippo as a pet...

Not just South Africans, pretty much all over southern and central Africa.

LOL not sure how many people here will know who Karl Pilkington is dude lol :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

guess ill cancel my ebay bid for 1 trained hippo :(

What an idiot and he sounds like a real divy dutchman (that is the slang we used to use for an Afrikaner btw) Most people in SA know that hippos kill more people than any other wild animal.

humans murder,rob and rape in every country, south africa is no exception

One smart patient hippo, one stupid naive human being. Humphrey's probably hanging with his buds by the watering hole having a few good - and totally justified - laughs.

I'd have loved to have seen the look on Marius Els' face when his "pet" suddenly decided to turn on him. It would have been an all time classic.

It probably didnt like him sitting on it.

i thought those animals were mean mofos

I honestly got the same impression, I guess hippos have a better sense of character than one would imagine.

Same as anything else, a little respect goes a long way.

dont fuck with wild animals..

Well I guess some of us put "raping a baby to cure yourself of HIV" in a special category. We need to ship more of them over here because "diversity enriches us".

You just made my day

Meanwhile, Darwin is having himself quite the chuckle.

You have to respect wild animals... they dont know that killing you is wrong and they dont fear consequences or feel any remorse over it.

I go diving with sharks (I'm a certified Shark Awareness instructor) and I show people my photos and they freak out, tell me I'm crazy, was I scared, lost my mind etc etc. Just respect the animals and you'll most likely be ok.

Dont grab a shark's tail or touch it when it swims by, and dont sit on a hippo. Seems like it would just be common sense to most people.

Was this the same guy from the Karl Pilkington show An Idiot Abroad? The hippo the lived in the house?