Here’s the Story Behind ACFD’s Snow-Shoveling T-Rex

WTOP News (Washington DC) ^ | 25 January 2016 | Tim Regan

[COBOL2Java]

Neighbors pitch in with the shoveling in Bethesda, Md. after a major storm dumped record snowfall on the Washington, D.C. region. (Submitted photo)

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As the snow piled up on Saturday, a video from the Arlington County Fire Department took off.

The video, tweeted out by the fire department around noon that day, showed a T-Rex clearing clearing snow from around a fire hydrant. The message was clear: If a predatory dinosaur with useless little arms can shovel snow, so can you.

But here's a secret: that wasn't a real T-Rex. And the video wasn't filmed around here.

"The actual video was not filmed in Arlington," said Jamie Jill, the Arlington firefighter who originally shared the clip. "It was at my sister's home in Bethesda."

And it was Jill's nine-year-old niece Janelle who played the role of the “civically minded” lizard, he added.

[COBOL2Java]

Here's the original story

[fhayek]

I needed TV, and I got T-Rex...

[BenLurkin]

Not in Arlington but in Bethesda...

What are they, about half a tank of gas away from each other?

[COBOL2Java]

Less than that!

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[Larry Lucido]

The Triceratops would make a good snow plow.

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Lol! But it's actually not a triceratops, but rather a close relative of one known as a "centrosaurus". They had just one large horn at the front, as opposed to the two near the eyes of the triceratops.

Centrosaurus

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Triceratops

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[Larry Lucido]

So, the unicorn of dinosaurs!

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Looking at it again I think it’s actually a different relative of triceratops. Because it has long spikes along its frill, as opposed to little nubby things. I don’t know the name of it, but there were a whole lot of different similar looking dinosaurs. They were in the category “ceratopsian”.

Ceratopsian Dinosaurs:
http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/articles/ceratopsian-dinosaurs.html

[ETL]

This might be it...

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Styracosaurus

Ceratopsian Dinosaurs:
http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/articles/ceratopsian-dinosaurs.html

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