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Jurassic lark: Students caught stealing giant model dinosaur from museum in drunken prank

This is the moment a group of students tried to abduct a giant model dinosaur from a museum as a drunken prank.

The young men had been out celebrating the end of their course when they walked past the life-size monster.

Deciding to relocate it in the middle of a roundabout as a joke, they set about lifting the 20ft long and 10ft tall plastic triceratops.

It took ten of them carry the giant model over an iron gate outside the Dinosaur Museum in Dorchester, Dorset.

But just as they carried it off above their heads into the night, they were stopped in their tracks by a policeman.

The revellers were ordered to take the dinosaur back immediately otherwise they would have been arrested for theft and criminal damage.

Student Steve Fry said: 'One of the guys on the course said he had always wanted to take the dinosaur for a laugh and wanted to know if we were all up for it.

'The police caught 14 of us in the High Street at about 2.30 am - we'd managed to get it half way up there.

'The police asked us to take it back which we did quite willingly and I have to admit they found it quite funny.'

He added: 'We were really sorry for causing any hassle and we are in the process of paying for the slight damages that the triceratops sustained whilst we lifted it over the fence.'

Inspector Les Fry, of Dorchester Police, said he had never heard of anyone trying to take the dinosaur before.

He said: 'The young people involved have apologised to the manager of the museum both verbally and in writing.

'This was an ill-advised prank and I would advise against such an action.'

The students all studied at Kingston Maurward College, a further education college specialising in agricultural studies.

A spokesman for the college said: 'We do understand that some of our students were involved in the taking of the dinosaur.

'Naturally as a college we don't support this kind of behaviour and we have spoken to those involved.'

The Dinosaur Museum in Dorchester is packed full of life-sized reconstructions of dinosaurs, alongside skeletons and fossils.

Manager Tim Batty declined to comment on the situation until it has been investigated by police.

The museum's website says the models 'beg to be touched by little hands - and that is encouraged, as is the handling of some of the dinosaur fossils.'

So, apparently, 14 college students carrying a 20 foot long dinosaur down the street in the middle of the night is considered "suspicious" in the UK.

Here, we call it "the weekend."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1165640/Jurassic-lark-Students-caught-stealing-giant-model-dinosaur-museum-drunken-prank.html



So, apparently, 14 college students carrying a 20 foot long dinosaur down the street in the middle of the night is considered "suspicious" in the UK.

Here, we call it "the weekend."

And the fact this tripe is allowed to publish isn't?

Here, we call it "the weekend."

Funny, here we call it "theft" and maybe "destruction of property."

Incidentally, I couldn't find the word suspicious anywhere in the article. Perhaps you could highlight it for me?

I'm not surprised. Nothing ever happens in Dorchester or Dorset. *flees before any Dorset residents see this*

Funny, here we call it "theft" and maybe "destruction of property."

Spoilsport.

Incidentally, I couldn't find the word suspicious anywhere in the article. Perhaps you could highlight it for me?

Huh, oddly it isn't. Thought for sure I had read something about it being suspicious. Oh well, now the OP is less funny.

Depends. In my neighborhood, things that are...strange, to say the least, are common. I've grown accustomed to a mute ninja standing infront of store 24 begging for money, a parade of several hundred people marching in honor of the death of a homeless man, furniture flying out of windows, people walking around mid week dressed as pirates, finding a needle on the stoop of an apartment, sometimes accompanied by the owner, passsed out, asking the man peeing into the street if he would mind taking a step closer to the road so you don't have to walk through the stream, cars driving into the front of businesses...

I don't think seeing a triceratops on the move would even get a second look around here.

I don't think seeing a triceratops on the move would even get a second look around here.

New York City?

New York City?
His location clearly states that he is in the Hub of the Universe, which as everyone knows is located in Boston (at least, everyone who matters knows that)

If they had tried it during the day and worn white overcoats, the policeman probably would have stopped the traffic for them.

New York City?

Allston (a neighborhood of Boston). As described on facebook:
Allston:
Home for the awkward, the poor, the college student, the homeless, the deranged. Home of the drunkard, the high, the hilarious, the do-what-I-wants, the hippies, the gangstas, the "that girls," the hotties, the hideous, the 40-year-old-wanna-still-be-in-college-guy...the list goes on.

Allston is the city where anything goes...and always does. You know you're not surprised to see anything walking around here. You see your apartment building sprout legs and walk away down Brighton Ave. and you think "Meh, it's Allston."

There could be, oh, I don't know...a ninja just chillin outside of store 24 (fuck tedeschi, it's still store 24) and you don't think twice because...It's Allston.

Furniture flying out of windows? Off balconies?
......It's Allston.

Wanna walk down the street with a bag of Doritos on your head?
...Go for it, It's Allston

Is that a needle on our front steps, man?
....Oh, Allston.

Public urination? Pukey your face off on the sidewalk?
......you watch out, but it's fine. It's Allston.

No matter what we see, or hear. No matter what you see someone wearing, or what that apartment looks like. It doesn't matter how absurd, weird, unacceptable, or inappropriate it may seem in possibly any other city in America. It's fine here in Allston. We're not even phased.

Whether you live here or not, if you know Allston, you freakin know it's true. Seriously, whether you want to admit/deny it or not, Allston has probably been your home for at least one night.

That's damn fine....It's Allston.

It's a huge student and recent grad population...50% more densely populated than the city average, 52.6% of the population falls between the ages of 20 and 34...as well as large numbers of Asian and Brazilian immigrants.

Student Steve Fry said...

Inspector Les Fry, of Dorchester Police, said...

:eek:

I smell a conspiracy!

:eek:

I smell a conspiracy!

so do I... Very Suspicious indeed...

Funny, here we call it "theft" and maybe "destruction of property."

Incidentally, I couldn't find the word suspicious anywhere in the article. Perhaps you could highlight it for me?

Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1165640/jurassic-lark-students-caught-stealing-giant-model-dinosaur-museum-drunken-prank.html



so, apparently, 14 college students carrying a 20 foot long dinosaur down the street in the middle of the night is considered "suspicious" in the uk.

Here, we call it "the weekend."

...
Roflmfao!

That must have been quite a sight!

Cop patrol, slow night - and up comes a life-sized Triceratops with 14 underlings.

I mean, really, that's hilarious!

I say those guys each deserve an internet