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Curious creature roams Minneapolis Lake

submitted by Max Sparber

Jul 10 2009 — 2:44pm

Via KARE11: Loch Ness it is not. But a Minneapolis lake seems to have its own creature claim to fame these days.  On Wednesday morning, a dinosaur sculpture appeared in the southeast corner of Lake Harriet.

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25 Reader Comments

yoshi Jul 10 2009
3:01 pm

I’m surprise the park board hasn’t assembled a swat team, stormed the lake, and taken it into custody.

justpbob Jul 10 2009
3:06 pm

I’m surprised we haven’t elected it to the United States Senate, based on three controversal absentee ballots from the Lizard People.

kwatt Jul 10 2009
3:18 pm

So a private firm is able to do guerilla marketing on public property, apparently without permission? I don’t see why this would be allowed.

noodleman Jul 10 2009
3:23 pm

Guerilla marketing has a way of backfiring … which only adds to the publicity.

 

kwatt Jul 10 2009
3:33 pm

Or the infamous WCCO story on the mystery blimp that turned out to be a Fox 9 gag? I loved that. (sorry @derushaj)

Bixby Jul 10 2009
3:40 pm

Pbth. This isn’t even a Champy from Lake Champlain.

justpbob Jul 10 2009
3:49 pm

Fox News has provided us with more than one gasbag, kwatt.

kwatt Jul 10 2009
3:54 pm

Does that fill some kind of random Fox News bashing quota or something? #wtf

noodleman Jul 10 2009
4:05 pm

Or the infamous WCCO story on the mystery blimp that turned out to be a Fox 9 gag? I loved that.

The predecessor to that was KDWB-AM’s famous (to radio nuts, at least) sign-on campaign, created by the famed Chuck Blore, for “Formula 63.” It even got WCCO’s Howard Viken’s endorsement!

 

Bixby Jul 10 2009
4:06 pm

# = Twitter
/ = not on Twitter

Bixby Jul 10 2009
4:07 pm

But does Fox News have some sort of insensitive/stupid shit quota.

/No seriously, do they?

Jonathan Jul 10 2009
5:35 pm

I hope someone steals it.

noodleman Jul 10 2009
7:38 pm

Do they did it to attract tourists? An interesting innovation, but people who want a quiet rest might feel inadequate.

Are you a robo-spammer whose rest feels inadequate?

Max Sparber Jul 10 2009
8:42 pm

Deleted. Feel free to repost without a link and an exhortation to visit your ceiling painting site, since posts like that seem spammy.

Anon ymous Jul 11 2009
12:39 am

Hmm – must be the summer for lake/pond monsters. One has also popped up at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum …

http://www.arboretum.umn.edu/intriguingart.aspx

Jason DeRusha Jul 11 2009
7:51 am

I think we didn’t do a story on this because of the FOX 9 Blimp disaster.

However, our friend Paul has cracked the case (at least I think he has):

Kristin Henning Jul 12 2009
10:58 am

Here’s the Iowa version, from today’s DesMoines Register, a 79 lb. carp taken by bow and arrow from a quarry near Cedar Rapids: http://tinyurl.com/mfydxu

kwatt Jul 12 2009
3:38 pm

Iowans are awesome.

kurtis Jul 12 2009
4:50 pm

He uses a cross-bow to kill giant carp. A sport soon to be featured on the new TV show, “The Least Deadliest Catch.”

Rat Jul 12 2009
5:03 pm

Or Iowa’s Brutalist Men

noodleman Jul 12 2009
7:43 pm

Well, you sure as heck can’t shoot one. And I don’t think I’d want to try to land one of those giant carp with a bobber and sinker.

noodleman Jul 13 2009
10:59 am

If lake fishing isn’t your thing, there were fish all over the place up in Brooklyn Park this morning. No carp, though.

Rat Jul 13 2009
11:06 am

I haven’t understood the attraction to carp. Montana fishing guides who know trout fishing like the back of their hand claimed to go after carp when they were off the clock. Other guys claimed that they ran like bonefish when they were hooked.

Another guy I know used them as garden fertilizer. Not saying I condone it.