It was a heart-stopping moment late one night as a car approached an 8m tall animal that was blocking the road.
Most people, seeing what should have been an extinct dinosaur – a triceratops – in their path would have turned and run in the opposite direction.
But for people in the English village of Godsill, on the Isle of Wight, the dinosaur was a well-known resident, albeit not a living animal.
Chris Hollingshead snapped the photo and put it on his Facebook, which can be seen by <%$Linker:2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal clicking here Visit facebook page false https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=904716539576905&set=a.421420157906548.97881.100001157027006&type=3&theater false false %>.
It was a priceless moment, he told local media. But he knew that animal, called Godshilla, was a statue prop for a nearby retailer.
Martin Simpson, who owns Island Gems, a shop that sells gems and fossils, told local media that his Godshilla was stolen as a prank from outside his shop and it probably took five people to move the creature onto the road.
To prevent the dinosaur going walk-about again, he said Godshilla will be painted soon, and put into a fenced-in garden.
Most people, seeing what should have been an extinct dinosaur – a triceratops – in their path would have turned and run in the opposite direction.
But for people in the English village of Godsill, on the Isle of Wight, the dinosaur was a well-known resident, albeit not a living animal.
Chris Hollingshead snapped the photo and put it on his Facebook, which can be seen by <%$Linker:
It was a priceless moment, he told local media. But he knew that animal, called Godshilla, was a statue prop for a nearby retailer.
Martin Simpson, who owns Island Gems, a shop that sells gems and fossils, told local media that his Godshilla was stolen as a prank from outside his shop and it probably took five people to move the creature onto the road.
To prevent the dinosaur going walk-about again, he said Godshilla will be painted soon, and put into a fenced-in garden.
