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| Thursday, May 1st, 2008 at 7:29:57 PM #2952 |
| TotalKontrol Removed Account | NEW YORK (AP) -- A pile of dinosaur dung 130 million years old sold at a New York auction Wednesday for nearly $1,000. The fossilized dung looks like a rock on the outside and a colorful mineral inside The prehistoric deposit fetched $960, said a spokeswoman for Bonhams New York. Its pre-auction estimate was $450. The fossilized dung is from the Jurassic era, the auction house said. It looks like a rock on the outside and a colorful mineral inside. The buyer was Steve Tsengas of Fairport Harbor, Ohio. The 71-year-old owns OurPets, a company that sells products to treat dog and cat waste. Tsengas bought the dung in hopes of motivating his employees and using it as a marketing tool by displaying it at the company's booth at trade shows, he said. "Poop," he said, "is a big business in the pet industry." SOURCE: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/04/30/dinosaur.dung.ap/index.html |
| Thursday, May 1st, 2008 at 9:53:12 PM #2990 |
| DarkestAngel Removed Account | That's actually kinda cool lookin. Not like I'd ever pick up a rock and decide to test it and see if its dinosaur shit.... |
| Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 at 8:04:09 AM #3035 |
 Toasty SysOp Level 40 Posts: 7,388 Submissions: 227  | I'd hit it. |
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