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what's the story behind this dino?
(what was it made of that they had to cut it up to move it?)
the really sad thing is that the people who made her in the first place offered to fix her up for free, and just charge for materials - but it seems the uni just didn't want a dinosaur anymore.
The absolute cnuts! Sneaky buggers, doing it on a Saturday too. And I was told that they were going to find her a new home - I guess the sledgehammers have put paid to that idea. Twats.
Alexis: it's based on a dinosaur skeleton found outside Glasgow, Alabama, and was put up in 2001 to form part of a big exhibition on dinosaurs at one of the Glasgow (Scotland) university museums. Unfortunately someone or other couldn't leave her alone, and she got damaged repeatedly - see my moblog for some pictures. I suspect the real cost was the extra attention security had to pay her - repairing her would have cost about £2500, which you could easily get by getting every student to chip in 20p :-(
yeah, a new home. in the rubbish heap.
what cr*p. i'm sorry to hear all that. : (
Come to think of it... how much would it cost to get seven workmen out on a Saturday morning for an hour? I'm thinking time-and-a-half at least, but I don't know what normal pay would be.