Hot hippo gets stuck in water tower


	Hot hippo gets stuck in water tower

infidel70

6-30-2009 6:46 PM

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7-1-2009 8:44 AM

mona

poor thing

glad they came to the hippo's rescue

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2d782983-80f5-4ea8-83ce-bc30968319af/7D64E22D-D146-4F01-B36A-BD0AB0793412/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Hot_hippo_gets_stuck_in_water_tower&in_article_id=693934&in_page_id=2" href="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Hot_hippo_gets_stuck_in_water_tower&in_article_id=693934&in_page_id=2" style="font-size: 11px;">www.metro.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Hot_hippo_gets_stuck_in_water_tower&in_article_id=693934&in_page_id=2"><H2 class="articlestandfirst">An overheating hippo was so 
desperate to cool down that he climbed over the side of a 3m (10ft) water tower for a nice long soak.
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<DIV class="ff_img_fix"><IMG width="450" height="300" border="1" alt="What lurks beneath: A rescuer sees the hippo’s two nostrils just above the surface of the water" src="http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2009/06/HippoCA_450x300.jpg" /></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Hot_hippo_gets_stuck_in_water_tower&in_article_id=693934&in_page_id=2"><P class="article">
However, after happily splashing around for a while, the mammal found it could not get out of the pool and was well and truly stuck.
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</P><DIV class="imgHolder"><IMG width="450" height="300" border="1" alt="Easy does it: Chris Hobkirk’s team try to corner the beast " src="http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2009/06/Hippo3CA_450x300.jpg" /></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Hot_hippo_gets_stuck_in_water_tower&in_article_id=693934&in_page_id=2"><P class="article">
Luckily, a farm worker noticed water spilling over the side of the concrete container and spotted two enormous nostrils poking out of the tank.
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</P><DIV class="imgHolder"><IMG width="450" height="300" border="1" alt="Rescued: The red-hot hippo" src="http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2009/06/Hippo2CA_450x300.jpg" /></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Hot_hippo_gets_stuck_in_water_tower&in_article_id=693934&in_page_id=2">Although this hippo went to extreme lengths to cool down it is by nature a semi-aquatic animal.
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