What happens when you cross an International Colombian Drug Cartel Boss with Wild Hippos?
(Well not exactly). Armies worldwide are sometimes tasked with very strange missions. UnkaBill had to tussle more than once with Dyspeptic Water Buffaloes. And the Colombian Army, recently had to tussle with some mean Narco-Hippos. No really. It seems that the old bugaboo of Colombian Narco Capos, Pablo Escobar, once had a menagerie of wild beasts in his Narco-Hacienda. In his collection, he had a couple of Hippopotami. But once he was dispatched by The Colombian National Police in a wild shootout, the caretaker of his menagerie, let the beast go loose.
Flash forward twenty years, and it seems that the Colombian Jungles now have somewhat of an African Hippo problem. According to the Colombian daily, El Tiempo, a unit of the Colombian army was tasked with tracking and bagging the beasties. Must be quite a change from the usual tussles that they have to contend with the FARC and the ELN.
Boq
Flash forward twenty years, and it seems that the Colombian Jungles now have somewhat of an African Hippo problem. According to the Colombian daily, El Tiempo, a unit of the Colombian army was tasked with tracking and bagging the beasties. Must be quite a change from the usual tussles that they have to contend with the FARC and the ELN.
But I am glad to report, that Pepe-The-Narco-Hippo has now found better pastures to roam to.
Boq
Weird solution for a weird problem with a weird cause. I hear hippos are actually pretty nasty for a wild animal, not that a few bangsticks can't deal with it. The problem with these culling activities as we've learnt over here is unless you get every last one of them you really aren't dealing with the problem.
Leave one gurl, however.
Nonetheless, it's still kinda sad for the hippos, who are blameless. But I'm a sentimental sap.
8^ D
I've never had hippo meat, but anything that big, mean, and ugly, has got to be delicious.
Never, ever, *ever* approach the Castle with a hunting rifle.
Just sayin'...
I thought this was going to be about some sort of mutant hippopotamule being used to transport drugs.
That should be a welcome break for the soldiers who are usually tasked with going out and hunting human critters.
Not if you're hunting big, mean, and ugly.
Because this hippo shoots back. And sometimes, first.
In any case, he reports that hippo is OK, but not great, while the best beast he's ever tasted was giraffe.
One data point for you, anyway.
Supposedly..