Suburban neighborhood on lockdown due to roaming hippopotamus (video)

Residents of Grassy Park—a suburban neighborhood in Cape Town, South Africa—sheltered in place on Sunday while a hippopotamus roamed the quiet streets. The massive beast was on the lam from the nearby Rondevlei Nature Reserve.
'My 74-year-old mom watched from inside the house, very scared, as the hippo came straight for our door,' said Ashraff Schwartz. — Read the rest
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