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Police from Kent, England are in search of a giant bronze hippopotamus. Yes, that's right.
The animal statue's home is on a lawn at a garden ornament business near Tunbridge Wells.
It weighs nearly three quarters of a ton, or around 1500 pounds.
The Kent Police's rural area Twitter account posted about the missing hippo.
Can you help us find a large cast bronze hippopotamus stolen from a garden ornament business near #TunbridgeWells?… https://t.co/BunOwjfx6T— Kent Police - rural (@Kent Police - rural) 1547224181.0
As their post says, the hippo measures in at about two meters long which is the equivalent of around six and a half feet.
The hippo has been missing since Friday.
People can not figure out what could have happened to the bronze hippopotamus.
@SimonJonesNews My goodness!! How on earth did they get away with that! Surely someone must of seen something 😲— Julie Pearse (@Julie Pearse) 1547228768.0
Can’t have got far, surely? https://t.co/4f77MUQMzW— Naomi Martin 🇪🇺 🕷 (@Naomi Martin 🇪🇺 🕷) 1547238181.0
@kentpolicerural I would think that someone CERTAINLY saw the machinery used to move such a heavy object. Wow!— 🎀🕊Ellie🕊🎀 (@🎀🕊Ellie🕊🎀) 1547263530.0
How y’all lose a 1/3 ton bronze hippo?! Someone just put it in their pocket!? https://t.co/WMbKfalf8H— Ethan Snapp (@Ethan Snapp) 1547262212.0
Other are simply amused by the strange mystery.
@PhyllisStein2 Weird flex but okay— Cristian (@Cristian) 1547251127.0
My favourite story to read in today’s bulletins.. no idea why. https://t.co/9USsUCxsJW— Lauren Collins (@Lauren Collins) 1547231824.0
@itvnews Thanks to this story, all I want in life is this giant hippo in my front yard.— Auntie Vigilante (@Auntie Vigilante) 1547251227.0
@itvnews Imagine getting up in the morning and mastermining the plan to steal a huge bronze Hippo.....? Ah, lads,… https://t.co/rndaWBg8uC— Olive Bridget (@Olive Bridget) 1547295795.0
@itvnews Maybe someone yelled “Jumanji” and it simply went back into the game 🤷🏼♀️— Ruth (@Ruth) 1547253616.0
@kentpolicerural Clearly someone took the song to heart and gave that girl a hippopotamus for Christmas 🎄 🦛 https://t.co/gs1eA4mzSH— Christopher Blewett (@Christopher Blewett) 1547244221.0
It is widely believed that the hippo was stolen to be sold for scraps.