Dinosaur comeback plan
Museums have a new way to ensure the return of things they loan to others. A December 6, 2006 EFT report explains:
The director of a museum in southwestern Argentina chained himself to an assembled dinosaur skeleton to demand that fossils and replicas sent to Buenos Aires, Italy and the United States be returned to his institution.
Ruben Carolini, the head of the Ernesto Bachmann Municipal Paleontological Museum in El Chocon, 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) southwest of the capital, told Efe on Wednesday that he was staging his protest to “protect the holdings” of the museum.
To call attention to his demands, Carolini on Tuesday chained himself to the fossilized skeleton of Giganotosaurus carolinii, a huge bipedal carnivore - like Tyrannosaurus rex, but bigger…
(Thanks to investigator Elizabeth Merritt for bringing this to our attention.)