# Weirdest. Lawn Ornament. Ever. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 23, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-lawn-ornament-ever/482710 "2009-01-23T21:16:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-lawn-ornament-ever/482710/1 "2009-01-23T21:16:36Z")
Driving through Inglewood this morning, I saw [this.](http://www.flickr.com/photos/32527822@N04/3221199458/). [Another view.](http://www.flickr.com/photos/32527822@N04/3221199506/in/photostream/) I had to stop and take a picture. I must emphasize that this is _life size_ and in someone’s front yard in an otherwise normal neighborhood. I have…no words. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-lawn-ornament-ever/482710/2 "2009-01-23T21:32:09Z")
Sweet! Bet that pisses off the neighbors a treat! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-lawn-ornament-ever/482710/3 "2009-01-23T21:35:51Z")
Safe bet that Young Earth Creationists live there. Awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-lawn-ornament-ever/482710/4 "2009-01-23T21:38:43Z")
Boom, boom, acka-lacka lacka boom! Boom, boom, acka-lacka boom boom… ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-lawn-ornament-ever/482710/5 "2009-01-23T21:50:55Z")
> [@Borborygmi](#): > > Boom, boom, acka-lacka lacka boom! > Boom, boom, acka-lacka boom boom… You know, I’m going to a piano bar tonight, and they play that song every time I go there. I think I’m immune to it, but you’re still a bastard for trying to inflict it upon these other poor souls. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-lawn-ornament-ever/482710/6 "2009-01-23T21:55:55Z")
OK, we have a baby Buddhist monk riding a dinosaur. That is truly a WTF. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-lawn-ornament-ever/482710/7 "2009-01-23T21:59:01Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > Safe bet that Young Earth Creationists live there. > > Awesome. Or an ex-minigolf employee. Are you saying that if you had statues of a kid and a dinosaur, you wouldn’t pose them like that? ---
**Author:** ![friggae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/45deac/32.png) [@friggae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friggae)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-lawn-ornament-ever/482710/8 "2009-01-23T22:08:20Z")
> [@Terrifel](#): > > Or an ex-minigolf employee. Or, an ex-Dinosaur World employee?.. > **[Dinosaur World, Tampa, Florida, and Cave City, Kentucky, the world's largest...](https://www.hotels-saopaulo.com/pt/dinoworldnet/)** ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-lawn-ornament-ever/482710/9 "2009-01-23T22:10:52Z")
> [@friggae](#): > > Or, an ex-Dinosaur World employee?.. > > [http://www.dinoworld.net/](http://www.dinoworld.net/) Wow. Life size dinosaurs. Do they move around? ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-lawn-ornament-ever/482710/10 "2009-01-23T22:14:57Z")
The kid statue looks like a replica of _Le Pisseur_ (sp?) from Brussels. In which case, he’d be pissing on the back of the dino’s head. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-lawn-ornament-ever/482710/11 "2009-01-23T22:15:28Z")
Am I seeing things or does that baby have his right hand down his pants? A masturbating baby Buddhist monk riding a dinosaur. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-lawn-ornament-ever/482710/12 "2009-01-23T22:16:47Z")
That definitely beats the 10-foot tall “Kung-Fu Panda” figure that I saw for a while on someone’s front lawn. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-lawn-ornament-ever/482710/13 "2009-01-23T22:16:50Z")
> [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](#): > > You know, I’m going to a piano bar tonight, and they play that song every time I go there. I think I’m immune to it, but you’re still a bastard for trying to inflict it upon these other poor souls. I do what I can. 😃 They actually play that song on a regular basis? ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-lawn-ornament-ever/482710/14 "2009-01-23T22:24:46Z")
Maybe not quite as weird, but it’s in the running. A couple of years ago, some friends gave us a 5’ long alligator, made out of rebar, made to hold a potted plant on it’s back. My SO looked at it, and decided it made a better Christmas decoration, so he wrapped all the rebar in red rope lights. So we had a 5’ long glowing red alligator. (Which was really cool when it snowed. You got this red glow as it melted it’s way out.) Last year, another friend decided we needed a 16" long cement gnome, laying on it stomach, reading a book. Well, last week the gator and the gnome had it out, and the gnome lost. So now, I have a 5’ long glowing red wireform gator, with an 16" long gnome in it’s stomach. It’s kind of too bad that we have a big front yard. Most people probably don’t ever see it. On the other hand, I’m not afraid that it’s going to walk off. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-lawn-ornament-ever/482710/15 "2009-01-23T22:32:26Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Wow. Life size dinosaurs. Do they move around? Nah, they hearken back to an earlier age of roadside attractions in that respect. But they’re fairly impressive nonetheless. You wander around the jungle-landscaped gardens, and take pictures of your kids next to the dinosaurs, and read them the educational plaques which they don’t care about except for the names, and then you go back to the gift shop and buy a carload of dinosaur-themed merchandise. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-lawn-ornament-ever/482710/16 "2009-01-23T22:33:10Z")
It’s the Baby Jesus riding a Jesus Horse. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-lawn-ornament-ever/482710/17 "2009-01-23T22:42:29Z")
Somehow we _have_ to get that thing to **chowder’s** neighbor. Damn the freight costs! It’d look so cool plopped in the middle of the massed gnomes. Actually that thing looks like a very weird _Dinotopia_ riff. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-lawn-ornament-ever/482710/18 "2009-01-23T22:54:54Z")
There’s a home in Highland Park, NJ with an Easter Island-style head in the yard, but this is way weirder than that. ---
**Author:** ![Nausicaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@Nausicaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nausicaa)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-lawn-ornament-ever/482710/19 "2009-01-24T01:39:00Z")
Can you let me know where that is - I’m from Edison and I’m dying to see it! ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-lawn-ornament-ever/482710/20 "2009-01-24T01:44:08Z")
> [@Pyper](#): > > Driving through Inglewood this morning, I saw [this.](http://www.flickr.com/photos/32527822@N04/3221199458/). [Another view.](http://www.flickr.com/photos/32527822@N04/3221199506/in/photostream/) I had to stop and take a picture. Well, _Inglewood._ California, no less. :rolleyes: What did you expect? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-lawn-ornament-ever/482710.md?page=2)