That's a damned clever ploy, Tish! Now if I can just lay my hands on one of
those inflatable rubber tanks they used before D-Day in England to create a
phantom army for George S. Patton, to confuse the enemy intelligence types,
I could do the same thing! Hmmmmmmm.

Harry

Harry Needham
Special Advisor - Program Development
Canadian War Museum
330 Sussex Drive,
  Ottawa, Canada
K1A 0M8
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> From:         Tish Morris[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
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> Sent:         Wednesday, July 08, 1998 12:23 PM
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> Subject:      Re: Safety for Visitors
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> This is a bit off your question, actually more related to Harry Needham's
> situation.
>
> We have two bronze dinosaurs in front of our museum both by artist Dave
> Thomas.  One, (Pentaceratops) is meant for climbing and is surrounded by
> sand.  This has been great to reduce accidents/injuries.  Now and again
> visitors drag rocks under the dinosaur to help them get up on it, but we
> move them away so any fall will be on the sand only.  I know of only one
> chipped tooth we have had since its 1984 installation.  The other dinosaur
> (Albertosaurus) was designed to be difficult to climb, and I have only
> heard of a few late night climbers, and none of those have fallen and sued
> us!
>
> Tish Morris
> New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science
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