Did you hear about this? New York police are on the lookout for a missing dinosaur, last seen over the weekend in an affluent Long Island suburb. Dinosaurs like the rich life don’t you know?
The life-size fiberglass replica of a carnivorous Deinonychus went missing from a local festival.
“It’s a very unusual theft, and because of that, we’re hoping the public will spot it somewhere,” said police detective Lieutenant John May. The report said that someone had sawn through a metal pole attaching the three-meter-long (10-foot-long) model to a trailer. I’m sure no one would miss it if they saw it considering how big it is.
“You’d definitely notice it, if someone rode by with it,” said Cindy Smith, spokeswoman for the Oyster Bay Festival.
There doesn’t seem to be any reports that the dinosaur is armed and dangerous - just missing. Must be a friendly giant. LOL
(1) Bryan Sanderson was arrested minutes after allegedly committing his second bank robbery of the day in York County, Va., in September. Sanderson’s main misjudgment, according to police, was making his getaway both times in his company home-inspection van with “Sanderson Services” on the side.
(2) New Yorkers Donald Ray Bilby, 30, in July, and Abdullah Date, 18, in August, were, respectively, convicted and arrested for sending anthrax threats to authorities in envelopes that each contained their correct return addresses. The anthrax threats allegedly also included a taunting note reading, “Catch me if you can.”
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From an Atlanta police report, summarized in a July issue of the weekly Creative Loafing:
A man working on a house on Smith Street was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital with serious injuries to his posterior. He happened to be bending over next to a wall that, unknown to him, a worker on the other side was drilling into, and the drill bit entered his “anal cavity.” (Creative Loafing of Atlanta), July 5, 2006)
New York’s Finest:
Four New York City police were called to an apartment house in July in the Bronx concerning a landlord-tenant dispute, but were distracted by a teenager in the hallway smoking marijuana and started to chase him, when a pit bull attacked the officers. The toll, 26 bullets later: one dead dog, one bitten officer, three other officers wounded by each other’s gunshots. (New York Post, July 24, 2006)
