Lowcountry NOW 02/13/04:
"Sharon Anderson, 28, of Dale was driving north on River Road Monday night when she struck a large animal she first thought was a rhinoceros, according to a Beaufort County Sheriff's Office report.
Of course, it wasn't.
It was a small hippo that had wandered away from Auldbrass Plantation.
Anderson said people look at her as if she's crazy when she tells them what happened.
'They say stop lying, there no hippos around here,' she said.
Her insurance agent was one of the skeptics.
'They didn't believe me at first,' she said. 'I took them the police report and they still didn't believe.'
She said the plantation's owner, movie producer Joel Silver, told her he'd owned the female hippo for eight years and didn't know how she'd wandered away."
"Sharon Anderson, 28, of Dale was driving north on River Road Monday night when she struck a large animal she first thought was a rhinoceros, according to a Beaufort County Sheriff's Office report.
Of course, it wasn't.
It was a small hippo that had wandered away from Auldbrass Plantation.
Anderson said people look at her as if she's crazy when she tells them what happened.
'They say stop lying, there no hippos around here,' she said.
Her insurance agent was one of the skeptics.
'They didn't believe me at first,' she said. 'I took them the police report and they still didn't believe.'
She said the plantation's owner, movie producer Joel Silver, told her he'd owned the female hippo for eight years and didn't know how she'd wandered away."
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