Oh my God, they killed T.Rex ! Those bastards !
Posted on 04/08/2007 11:33:41 PM PDT by JohnSheppard
Leaping lizards!
It took an act of God to render dinosaurs extinct, but real chutzpah to lay low a beloved orange landmark that has loomed over Route 1 for 47 years.
“It’s Easter Sunday. Jesus Christ rose from the dead and so will that dinosaur,” vowed Diana Fay, owner of Route 1 Miniature Golf and Batting Cages in Saugus.
Despite massive hind legs fortified with concrete and steel rods, the fiberglass Tyrannosaurus rex was viciously dinosaur-tipped sometime between late Thursday night and early Friday morning.
Fay’s late uncle, Nicholas Melchionna, had the reptilian reproduction built in South Boston in 1960 to rattle putters on the “Double Trouble” Hole 6.
Fay and her husband Richard, who bought the miniature golf course in 1979 to keep it in the family, opened for the season Saturday. The pearly-toothed T. rex, which stands between 12 and 20 feet tall, is their star attraction.
“However it was done, they had to have rocked him hard enough that he just snapped off at his ankles,” said Fay. “It was a vicious act of fun for them, but not so fun for us who are left to pick up the pieces.
“He’s withstood hurricanes, blizzards. This is the worst thing that’s ever happened to him,” she said of the nationally known DayGlo dino.
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Oh my God, they killed T.Rex ! Those bastards !
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