I Almost Crashed Into An Elephant On The Highway In Africa

Yeah, I know it's crazy. Shit happened. I was driving down the highway in Botswana where one of my family members lived that I had to check on and it fucking came out of nowhere and I almost hit it. It was the weirdest near-death car accident experience ever. I have hit deer, and I have driven by a moose, but nothing prepared you to see a goddamn running elephant pop out of nowhere, run out on the road and run back into the forest and disappear. 

Like spot the damn elephant, it is so damn big and fucking disappears. 

The thing is that wasn't even the craziest thing I witnessed in the same car ride. As the sun was setting and I needed to get to the next location before sundown I saw this giant, what I thought was a pile of dirt or shit at first, was a fucking Hippo. These dudes were standing next to it, I asked them what happened:  apparently, a truck hit it.

They were like "Yeah we are waiting for our friends so we can butcher it up". 

I was like: "No way is that legal?"

I took down the guy's WhatsApp because we had to roll and asked him to send pictures when they were doing it. 

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IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE A BITCH ABOUT WHAT YOU ABOUT TO SEE THEN STOP SCROLLING

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IT'S A HIPPO GETTING BUTCHERED LAST CHANCE.

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Apparently, they cut the eyes out before taking anything out. I do not know the exact value of hippo eyes but the fellas love them. Apparently you can eat the hippo fat raw. This is a traditional practice to just butcher wild animals, the government allows it as long as you are not collecting trophies. So hypothetically if I hit that elephant and I definitely did not survive the same fellas would be butchering it and allowed to take all the meat as long as they didn't take the ivory on the tusks. Hippo was almost ranched in Louisiana and would have probably become an American staple. Check out the blog I did on it. 

The first thing when I got back I had to do was tell Donny about it. Fucking almost got wrecked on a highway by an elephant. 

Reverse image search any of these photos, its a real story no bullshit 

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