Since my first visit to the Wax Museum in Los Angeles, CA, i've been following the life story to none other than the already dead Mr. Robert Wadlow.
The guy was a freaking 8 ft 11 in (or 272 cm) american man from Illinois.
In this picture you can see Robert Wadlow with his father Harold Wadlow.
I've been living fine, and sharing the information that he's the largest human being ever, and i even heard about Sun Ming Ming, basketball player from China (7 ft 9 in, or 236 cm):
Or the amazing Bao Xishun, from Mongolia (7 ft 8.95 in or 235 cm):
Well, almost a foot (or 30 cm) taller than the other two, Wadlow was still my hero!
Up until today, when I read this December 2006 news, about Mr. Bao (the mongolian).
It seems that he was involved in saving the second most intelligent beings on earth, dolphins, from dying.
What I read, seemed to my as the kind of story that happened only in the western's 1600's, but I forgot that in the far-east, villages are a lot more common than in the new world.
From now on, I'll tell the story using my point-of-view, and by saying that I mean that some distortions will be made, using a kinda of a picturesque language, to help to give a glance on the proportion of that fact, considering we're in the 21st century.
The sroty starts in the sand of a beach in the province of Liaoning, China. Two adult dolphins were found laying in the shore, on the morning of December 14th, 2006. A first team of chinese peasants saw the dolphins, and curiosity brought them near the animals. They understood what was going on in just a few minutes, when they saw the dolphins having a hard time breathing, and throwing up every once in a while. (What does a dolphin throw up?).
They called the local aquarium, where some specialists could maybe help out. The biologists came with ther intricate equipments, and got in the dolphins' throat. The problem is, when the apparatus reached the dolphin's stomach, contractions stopped the equipment from reaching the plastic.
Then, (climax), someone in the crowd just had the most improbable (yet reasonable) idea of using human arms to get to the dolphin's stomach, since the human hand would be a lot "nicer" than some metal medical equipment.
But the next problem was: "Who would have arms long enough to reach the dolphin's stomach?". And the immediate, now more improbable than in the first time, idea was: "Let's call the man with the longest arm we know!".
And that bring us back to Mr. Bao Xishun, that was contacted through telephone, and was able to get to Fushun Beach in the same day, and finally let the dolphins free off the plastics, and free to come back to their normal life.
And from then on I got my new hero (at least height-wise)!
P.S.: I couldn't help but notice the coincidence with a great popular cartoon, Family Guy.
