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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I'm struggling to think of any situation where a 2yo would come in contact with a hippopotamus that doesn't involve criminal levels of negligence.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

you can't keep track of where every hippopotamus is all the time. sometimes you're just going about your day and there one is, swallowing your kid.

[–] loaExMachina 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He was just playing by himself near his home. And his home was near a lake in Uganda . https://nypost.com/2022/12/15/hippo-swallows-spits-out-2-year-old-boy-in-uganda/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure I'd let my kid play outside unsupervised if my yard was occasionally visited by hippos.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Somebody trying to make Harambe 2 is my only guess