Kruger artificial watering holes to close

Compensation fund fraud trail postponed

Amazulu to release 12 players

Confidence vote against Somali PM withdrawn

Modimolle hippo turns to Twitter

August 24 2012 at 07:58am
By Adam Wakefield

Comment on this story

INLSA

Solly is believed to have been chased by a larger bull hippo from his local dam ending up trapped in the guest swimming pool at the Monate Game Lodge near Modimolle. Picture: Chris Collingridge

Johannesburg - The hippo that has been stranded in a swimming pool in Modimolle in Limpopo has found a voice on Twitter.

@ModimolleHippo has been tweeting since Wednesday, the day the hippo became stranded in the swimming pool.

With a bio stating, “I'm stranded in a swimming pool. Still... fame at last!”, and location listed as “A Modimolle swimming pool.”, tweets include:

- My feet are getting soooo wrinkly. #hippo

- Okes I'm not going to lie. Could do with some fresh water in this pool. Getting a bit grim in here.

- This pool party sucks.

- What if freedom relegates me to nobody status?

- They are saying I might not make it. This is the first I'm hearing of it.

- I made the front page of The Star! My mom would be so proud. If she hadn't chucked me out of the family unit. #solly #stroppie

@ModimolleHippo had 67 followers as of Friday morning.

Sapa

Comment Guidelines

Please read our comment guidelines.
Login and register, if you haven’ t already.
Write your comment in the block below and click (Post As)
Has a comment offended you? Hover your mouse over the comment and wait until a small triangle appears on the right-hand side. Click triangle () and select "Flag as inappropriate". Our moderators will take action if need be.

Most Viewed

Join us on

Services

Whether you are a buyer or seller, wegotads is your online marketplace.
Wegotads »

Buying a car has never been easy. Motoring.co.za contains a large database of car listings with a user friendly search.
Start searching today »

Business Directory

Make sure you find the best available airfares with our easy-to-use search engine.

You are here: IOL / News / South Africa / Limpopo / Modimolle hippo turns to Twitter

We like to make your life easier

RSS feeds
Subscribe to one of our feeds and receive instant news.

Mobile
Browse IOL on your phone at m.iol.co.za.

Newsletters
Subscribe to our newsletters. News delivered to your inbox!

Twitter
Join us now

Facebook
Join us now

© Copyright 1999 - 2012 Independent Online, a division of Independent Newspapers (Pty) Limited. The copyright in the literary and artistic works contained in this online news publication and its other related and connected websites, as well as in the published editions of group newspapers, their supplements and any other content or material, belongs exclusively to Independent Newspapers (Pty) Limited unless otherwise stated.
The reproduction of any content or material contained in this online news publication and its other related websites as well as the published editions of group newspapers and their supplements is expressly reserved to the publisher, Independent Newspapers (Pty) Limited, under Section 12(7) of the Copyright Act of 1978. Reliance on the information contained in the online news publications and other related content published on this website is done at your own risk and subject to our “terms and conditions”. Independent Newspapers (Pty) Limited has committed itself to The Press Code of Professional Practice which prescribes that news must be reported in a truthful, accurate, fair and balanced manner. If we don't live up to the Press Code please contact The Press Ombudsman 2nd Floor, 7 St David’s Park, St David’s Place, Parktown, 2193 or PO Box 47221, Parklands 2121 or email pressombudsman@ombudsman.org.za (www.ombudsman.org.za) or telephone 011 484 3612/8.