Former Miss South Africa Attacked By Hippo

[matcom]

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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - A former Miss South Africa has been attacked by a wild hippopotamus and bitten on the leg, local media reported on Wednesday.

Media reports said Diana Tilden-Davis, Miss South Africa 1991 and a runner up in the 1991 Miss World (news - web sites) contest, was attacked while canoeing in the Okavango Swamps of neighboring Botswana and was airlifted to Johannesburg's Milpark hospital.

"We are treating her and she's in a stable condition," an official at the hospital told Reuters, but declined to give further details.

Earlier this month, another South African woman was killed by a hippo while she and her husband were on their honeymoon in Botswana.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=8&u=/nm/20031224/od_nm/hippo_dc

[peekaloo]

1. Send in Miss Savannah, she'll take care of that hippo.

:evilgrin:

[matcom]

2. badum bump

:D

[xchrom]

3. how do you get that off your

resume?
from beauty queen to hippo snack food.

[underpants]

4. That's what she gets for walking so close to a Lane Bryant store

Oh Ouch

I'm trying but no one is biting today.

[lapislzi]

5. hippos are dangerous critters--and FAST!

whoda thunk it?

When I lived in Africa, the prevailing wisdom was that danger in the bush would come from either hippos or buffalo, hardly ever lions or leopards.