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NORMAN, Okla., Aug. 18 (UPI) -- The owner of an Oklahoma gas station where thieves beheaded a fiberglass dinosaur is pleading for the head's return "with no questions asked."
Jerry Masters, owner of the Sinclair gas station in Norman, said he arrived for work Friday to find vandals had sawed off the head of Dino the dinosaur, a 500-pound, pea-green Apatosaurus statue, The Oklahoman reported Wednesday.
"I think it was a prank, but we'd sure like to have the head back," Masters said. "He looks kind of sad without it."
Masters said he will accept the head back "with no questions asked."
The station owner said he installed the dinosaur, which has been the registered trademark of Sinclair stations since 1932, about five years ago.
Masters said he believes the statue is one of only two of its kind in the state.
"It's not an antique. I had it specially manufactured. But I don't think there's that many of them around," he said.
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