12 foot dinosaur stolen from Montana gas station
Quite an amusing news headline that caught my eye this morning. A gas station in Montana is offering a $250 reward for information leading to the safe return of Dino. Dino happenes to be a 12 foot long fiberglass dinosaur. For those of you who remember heading up to Plettenberg Bay for the matric rave in 1992 this will ring a bell. There was a similar incident involving a 6 foot fiberglass Zebra that mysterioulsy vannished from a Trek petrol station one night and was never returned. It saddens me to say that Zippie, as he was christened that night, will never be returned. He was buried on Main Beach. I suspect that Dino, like Zippie, has fallen foul of a couple of fun loving drunk students!
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) -- The folks at Hi-Noon Petroleum in Montana have a new way to turn a dinosaur into gasoline.
They're offering a $250 gas card for information leading to the safe return of Dino, a 12-foot-long fiberglass Sinclair dinosaur that disappeared June 21 from the Crossroads Travel Center west of Missoula.
"We just wonder what happened to him," Hi-Noon marketing manager Earl Allen said Friday. "It's a little odd for him to just walk away."
The 6-foot tall green dinosaur sat on a hill overlooking Interstate 90 for at least five years, Allen said, with occasional appearances in University of Montana Homecoming parades.
"That was his home for a number of years," Allen said.
Allen said taking the prehistoric icon would have been a bit of a project.
"It's not like you can just throw him in the back of a pickup," he said.
Anyone with information on Dino's whereabouts is asked to call Hi-Noon.
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