Triumphant after a weeks-long hunt to track and kill a murderous hippopotamus, villagers in the Nigerian town of Yauri recently paraded the remains of the beast down before it was butchered and its flesh distributed to locals who were hungry hungry for some hippo, the BBC reports.
“We are a town of fishermen and farmers and this hippo has made many to stop going out due to fear of an attack,” resident Sani Yauri – yeah he’s got the same name as the town – told the BBC, adding that the state’s Emir had ordered the hunt after one of his staff was thrashed to death by the hippo. “It also seriously injured another person – not also forgetting the damage it regularly does to our farmlands. We are happy it has been killed and people came out in jubilation – and also got their share of the meat.” Another guy, Isa Jamilu, said he was relieved to finally be able to return home to his rice farm weeks after the hippo had chased him away. Locals had to kill the bastard with homemade spears, which by the sound of it seems to have taken a pretty freaking long time.