Topeka zoo says hippo might have to be sent to California by Federal Express

fox4kc ^ | December 11, 2010

[JoeProBono]

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Officials at the Topeka Zoo say delays in getting a hippopotamus shipped to a zoo in San Francisco might mean the 5,500-pound animal will have to be shipped through Federal Express.

[JoeProBono]

[The Cajun]

Seen that photo several times, wonder if the poor bastard made it.

[Kartographer]

Who else do you go with when it positively, absolutely has to be there over night?

[piasa]

Someone’s finally getting a hippopotamus for Christmas?
Only a hippopotamus will do...

[JoeProBono]

[bunkerhill7]

Topeka zoo says hippo might have to be sent to California by Federal Express because he won`t fit through the TSA airport scanner.

[tanuki]

For this they’d BETTER get a signature!

[allmost]

That's just funny, unless you're the guy that needs to scan him..

[goat granny]

Hope no one has to give it a body cavity search...could piss it off and the TSA couldn’t send it to prison...

[allmost]

I’d rather them be frustrated doing their job here.

[JoeProBono]

[allmost]

He was looking at a sharp turn, even odds.

[JoeProBono]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2641504/posts

[goat granny]

saw that one earlier....

[JoeProBono]

[goat granny]

and who pays the postage....yikes

[Vendome]

Flintstone it!

Pick em up...put em down, Pick em up...put em down, Pick em up...put em down....

[sinanju]

I understand hippos kill more people than the rest of the big critters put together. Usually from stumbling into them at night when they’re grazing on land and prone to charge at anything that approaches.

[The Cajun]

Another Freeper told me that he made it (from original article). Was a game keeper.
Almost like having something prehistoric from the Cretaceous period after your a$$.

[Ophiucus]

I hope they do it - there’s a heck of a commercial waiting in this...