This surreal story has been making the rounds. Via the BBC:

The world’s tallest man has saved two dolphins by using his long arms to reach into their stomachs and pull out dangerous plastic shards.

Um, should I even ask how these dolphins, who lived at an aquarium, ended up swallowing plastic shards? Or should I just revel in the bizarre yet heartwarming nature of the story?

You can watch video of the rescue here.

4 Comments

1. 
   Comment by

   susie

   on December 16, 2006 at 12:36 am #

   AP sez: “The dolphins got sick after nibbling on plastic from the edge of their pool at an aquarium in Liaoning province. “

   I wonder if they have Bao Xishun on call for just this kind of emergency.

2. 
   Comment by

   Jason Das

   on December 18, 2006 at 1:11 pm #

   But let us not forget the other dolphin news from China last week – the extinction of the Yangtze River Dolphin, unchanged for three million years, but no match for modern China.

3. 
   Comment by

   Olivia Lane

   on December 27, 2006 at 8:21 pm #

   Not to cause controversy or anything, but there’s a program on TLC (which is airing at this moment) which claims that Leonard Stadnyk is the world’s tallest man (though unlike Bao Xishun, Leonard hasn’t been measured by Guiness).

4. 
   Comment by

   Laura Leslie

   on December 28, 2006 at 3:24 am #

   Dude, complain to the BBC, not to me! :P