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Walking With Dinosaurs star goes walkabout

Oz's Walking With Dinosaurs touring show is one star short today after someone made off with a 1.5m-tall remote-controlled beast as the show opened in Guadalajara, Mexico. Spokeswoman Karla Arroyo admitted that organisers hadn't got the foggiest as to how the AU$110k (£61k) creature went walkabout, but insisted that the theft …

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Arroyo concluded: "Only in Mexico..."

That sounds like a challenge.. when are they coming to the UK?

I guess it would be a little after not getting into America due to dinosaurs conflicting with the bible, or of the potential terrorist threat that dinosaurs might cause there.

ttfn

flame on!

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Blighty has some competition here

Hehe, there used to be a running gag on the other side of the iron curtain.

Q: What is the speed limit in Romania?

A: 50 kmp/h lower limit, if you go any slower you will find your car unloaded from the back.

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been

They've been and gone in the UK.

At £45 a ticket they can keep them.

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GPSaur?

Perhaps there's an iPhone app for that?

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Surely....

Now Swindon is twinned with DW they'll be visiting there soon... not sure if they'll escape though!

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not if the magic roundabout gets them...

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Remote Controlled Dinosaur

Some mexican child is getting a really special Xmas pressie this year.....

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Only if...

So long as they stole the remote control as well. Otherwise, some child is getting a massive disappointment for Winterval.

Re Only if...

I expect a One 4 All remote will work.

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Was Not Was

Is there theme music performed by "Was Not Was" by some chance?

It seems someone really did walk that dinosaur.

Sorry. I didn't mean to give you earworms.

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Can't believe you missed...

...the opportunity for a Peter Ustinov "One Of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing" headline

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The secret ingredient is...

...LOTUS X...

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Jurassic park?

Did no one learn the lesson from Jurassic Park?

The little buggers always get loose, then snack on the nearest American

So, not all bad then ;)

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Maybe he went walkabout looking for...

He's probably now in Cancun, wearing a large sombrero lying on a beach sipping pina collada pondering whether the huge crater hole in Yucatan was responsible for the extinction of his dino-friends!

Not Liverpool then

Where Diplodocus would have been left burned out propped up on bricks.

I really, really hope there will be some CCTV of a dinosaur sneaking out under the cover of darkness.

Joke

One-eyed dinosaur?

Apparently the thief had an accomplice in the scam and had to evade a guard to get away. After the heist he turned to his partner in crime and asked 'Doyouthinkesaurus?'

Badum tch.

Police are currently searching...

...for several old ladies, a camp English spy and a number of racist stereotypes. They claim they may have made a breakthrough with the discovery of a microfilm containing a recipe for wonton soup.

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1.5m tall, hmmm?

http://xkcd.com/87/

@Long John

Actually the velociraptors in JP were quite happily munching on an Englisher too. (Yes, I know the character was supposed to be Kenyan - the point stands).

On the plus side they weren't anything like real velociraptors, which are much smaller and fluffier and probably couldn't taste the difference between American and British reared long pig anyway.

This utterly pointless piece of pedantry and nerdery was brought to you in association with too much coffee. Gods, is it only Tuesday?

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Zomgwtfgbh

Espionage! Trickery!

The Mexicans have Dinosaur making technology, who knows what might happen?!

(Pipe down Crichton).

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May I be the first

To welcome our dinosaur weidling mexican overlords

Probably stuffed full of drugs and aimed for the border

What are the Border Patrol rules of engagement regarding dinosaurs?

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Rules of engagement?

"Hey Juan there's another dinosaur making for the border!"

"Have you been confiscating contraband again Gonzales?"

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Exactly what I was thinking

This is going to make a great low speed chase - much better than OJ.

Maybe he was hungry . . .

And stepped out for a taco?

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Sitting in a bar in Guadalajara....

Up walks a Mexican selling big lizards...

"What are you afraid of?"

"With these claws? I doubt you'd survive..."

Remembering Kristy McColl this Christmas.

Coat

Ahem.

Q: What happens to a Dinosaur that goes missing in Mexico?

A: It turns up later in Chilli.

<Drum sting>

<Cymbal>

<Tumbleweeds>

Thank you. I'm here all week......

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Yes me too. In these shoes is a great song. Time for perennial "Fairytale of New York" me thinks.

On another point the Dino show was here in Indianapolis a few months ago. I believe it was a sell out and this is part of the bible belt where common sense goes out of the window.

Oh and I'm a Brit who married an American Woman (oops 'nother song title).

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