NOTORIOUS Colombian drug king Pablo Escobar’s deadly cocaine hippos are finally being shipped off to zoos around the globe — 30 years after his reign of evil was stopped by lawmen’s bullets!
Escobar, whose Medellín Cartel controlled 80 percent of the world’s cocaine trade in the 1980s, left behind a trail of bloodshed and heartbreak when he died at 44 in a hail of gunfire — and four hippos in his personal zoo. The critters’ numbers have spiraled out of control in their new homeland’s swamps.
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