ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Reward offered for Montana truck stop dinosaur

MISSOULA, Mont.

The folks at Hi-Noon Petroleum in Montana have a new way to turn a dinosaur into gasoline.

They’re offering a $250 gas card for information leading to the safe return of Dino, a 12-foot-long fiberglass Sinclair dinosaur that disappeared June 21 from the Crossroads Travel Center west of Missoula.

“We just wonder what happened to him,” Hi-Noon marketing manager Earl Allen said Friday. “It’s a little odd for him to just walk away.”

The 6-foot tall green dinosaur sat on a hill overlooking Interstate 90 for at least five years, Allen said, with occasional appearances in University of Montana Homecoming parades.

“That was his home for a number of years,” Allen said.

Allen said taking the prehistoric icon would have been a bit of a project.

“It’s not like you can just throw him in the back of a pickup,” he said.

Anyone with information on Dino’s whereabouts is asked to call Hi-Noon.

Police: Pa. inmate faked seizures before taxi call

BEAVER, Pa.

Sheriff’s deputies say a western Pennsylvania county jail inmate faked the seizures that prompted jail officials to take him to a hospital where he tried to hail a taxi to escape.

The Beaver County Times reported recently that sheriff’s deputies have charged 23-year-old Holden Wooley with escape and other crimes stemming from incidents at Heritage Valley Beaver Hospital on June 30.

The deputies say Wooley told another patient he was faking the seizures and was “going to skip” — meaning he planned to escape.

While at the hospital visit Wooley went outside to hail a cab in his orange-and-white striped prison jumpsuit, but the driver refused to pick him up.

Police found him a couple of hours later.

Online court records don’t list an attorney for Wooley who remained jailed.

Associated Press