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Dino-Napping! Thieves Abscond With $100K Animatronic Beast

by Terrence O'Brien on December 9, 2009 at 07:30 AM

Thieves Steal $100,000 Dino-bot
Straight from our WTF files -- thieves managed to walk off with the $100,000, five-foot-tall, remote-controlled robot dinosaur from the 'Walking With Dinosaurs' show on opening night in Guadalajara, Mexico. How the crooks got past security and into where the dino-bots were being held, or even how they managed to walk out the door with an animatronic beast the size of an eighth-grader isn't exactly clear. The staff noticed the dinosaur was missing after the show ended and just before it was time to pack up and head north of the border for a tour around the U.S.

What exactly the thieves plan to do with the robot is unknown. We're pretty sure something that large, that expensive, and that hilarious looking would draw a lot of attention on the black market. But heck, maybe they're just going to use it to pull a plow through corn fields.

Though the stolen robot was the least expensive in the show, this doesn't bode well for Mexico's chances of hosting future robot-based extravaganzas. What happens when 'Walking With Recently Extinct Rain Forest Creatures' and 'It's a Small World: The Ride: The Tour' come around? Mexico will always be "that country that lost the robotic, apparently unguarded dinosaur," and no one will ever lend them animatronics again. [From: BBC, via: BuzzFeed]

Tags: crime, dinosaur, funny, robot, robots, theft, top, walking with dinosaurs, WalkingWithDinosaurs, weird

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