The time Louisiana tried to fill its swamps with Hippos....

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lake cow bacon.

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aka north Baton Rouge

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Carl
Hippos kill more people than any other animal on earth, I believe. Or close to it. That would have been a frick up of catastrophic proportions.

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That's true but it would have only taken one time and every coonass in their vicinity would have killed them all.

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Hippos kill more people than any other animal on earth, I believe. Or close to it. That would have been a frick up of catastrophic proportions.

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That would be the mosquito.

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Hippos kill more people than any other animal on earth, I believe.

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Hippos. Not pit bulls

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Hippos kill more people than any other animal on earth, I believe.

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maybe top 10

Off the top of my head mosquitoes, snakes, scorpions, dogs definitely account for more deaths than hippos. Sure there’s a lot of other small animals with diseases that are responsible for more deaths too

Manatees might work, safer and tastier, maybe.

Didn't Pablo Escobar bring in a bunch of hippos for his little zoo and now they are out of control and screwing up the ecosystem?

Make some rice

This is a long, but outstanding article about the push to get hippos to America. It would make a great movie or mini series

Atavist Magazine

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This is a story about hippopotamuses, as advertised, but it’s also a story about two very complicated and exceptional men. These men were spies. They were also bitter enemies. Each wanted to kill the other and fully expected to feel really good about himself afterward. Eccentric circumstances—circumstances having to do with hippopotamuses—would join these men together as allies and even dear friends. But then, eventually, they’d be driven into opposition again.

Whatever strange bond these two men had, they were loyal to it. They were like repulsive magnets: Some fundamental property of each was perfectly opposed to the core of the other. And yet, somehow throughout their long lives—as several volatile phases of American history tumbled along in the background—they also had a way of continually snapping back together. One of these men was a humble patriot, known for his impeccable integrity. He tried to leave detailed, reliable accounts of what he did and thought and felt. The other, I discovered, was a megalomaniac and a pathological liar.

This is a true story, and a very serious one, even though it’s composed of many details that will seem ludicrous and impossible. Most of those details are irrefutable, though. And while I worked hard to verify the rest, doing so occasionally proved futile. I’d like to try and explain why.

These two men will seem larger than life, but they lived at a time, a hundred years ago, when, I would argue, life in America seemed larger than life—when what was unimaginable still felt feasible and ideas that looked ridiculous could still come true.

That said, this is the story of one idea that looked ridiculous and didn’t come true. The idea was ridiculous. But it was completely reasonable, too.

All I can say is, try to keep that in mind

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