Free Republic

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...