Dinosaur stolen from Ballarat golf park

By Benjamin Preiss
Updated November 2 2012 - 2:55pm, first published November 1 2010 - 1:41pm
The tricerotops statue, once seen pummelling the wall, is now missing from Ballarat's Gold Rush Mini Golf.
The tricerotops statue, once seen pummelling the wall, is now missing from Ballarat's Gold Rush Mini Golf.

A LARGE dinosaur sculpture has been stolen from outside a mini golf course on the Western Highway. The triceratops sculpture, which was crashing through the fence of the Gold Rush Mini Golf, was stolen sometime on Sunday night.Golf course owner Wayne Johnston made the dinosaur himself out of polystyrene. In an odd twist, the dinosaur was stolen exactly four years after surviving a major fire in which the golf course was badly damaged."We were two weeks away from opening and there was a fire and we were burnt to the ground," he said of the previous incident.Mr Johnston said the sculpture was too big to fit in a normal car and would be almost impossible to fit on the tray of a ute."Whoever took it, I don't know what they're going to do with it," he said. "It won't fit inside a building."Mr Johnston was unsure if he was insured for the loss of the dinosaur sculpture and estimated it was worth up to $6000. He said it would take at least two people to move the triceratops sculpture.Mr Johnson said the dinosaur was too big for one person to move alone."It would have taken them a while just to get it off the fence," he said.The theft has been reported to police.

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