Online shopping is quite a comfortable thing as it enables you to buy anything from any part of the world right from your bed.
But it comes at a price – you cannot see, touch or feel what you are buying before you receive it.
Shopping online, you can never be sure how that fabric would feel, how that perfume will smell and how big your son’s pet dinosaur might be.
Andre Bisson bought a dinosaur statue for his son online but he could not comprehend what a 20ft long dinosaur statue measures to.
The resident of Guernsey, UK, bought the “pet” for his son, Theo, aged four. The small boy had asked his dad for ‘the biggest carnotaur you’ve ever seen,’ and as it appears, he did justice to his son’s request.
Andre told The Sun: “I checked the website straight away, and to my absolute amazement they had a carnotaur. Listed for £1,000 ($1,289), I just had to get this for Theo.”
For an average father, it is very unusual to buy a $1,300 gift for their son without thoroughly inspecting the object but it looks like Theo’s dad can afford lucrative price tags to make his little boy happy.
The dad continued to say: “The issue was as this was being sold off online, there was only a thumbnail image to try and gauge the size, no details whatsoever and no one to ask, I didn’t care really.”
Andre didn’t realize the sheer size of his purchase until the shipping company contacted him to tell that the dinosaur won’t fit in their truck.
At that time, Andre felt like he bought something a bit large.
But he got the true idea of what a 20ft long dinosaur means when the gargantuan statue was lifted using a crane and placed in his yard from above.
He said: “The delivery team literally took about 30/40 minutes from when they arrived along the coast to Chaz being dropped in.
“The thought did cross my mind that if Chaz were to drop or fall through a roof, I was imagining the phone call to my insurance broker…
“‘OK sir, exactly how did a 20ft long hole appear in your roof?’… ‘Well, a fully grown carnotaurus fell from the sky.’
“Thankfully he was well strapped in, although when he was being lowered in a gust of wind started him spinning in the air. His tail missed my dormer window by less than an inch.”
Everything aside, Theo did get the biggest dinosaur in all of Guernsey.
Explaining Theo’s excitement about it, his dad said: “Theo didn’t want to go to school as he didn’t want to leave him, he thought he’d be home alone – he wanted to take him on the yellow crane.
“He said he was hungry, so we cooked fish fingers and fed him. Theo and Chaz are best buds – he’s got a pet dinosaur.”
Replaced!