Dino Poo
Gets $960 at auction. An Ohio poo professional scored at the Bonhams New York auction. I think they could have got a lot more for it on eBay.* Akron Beacon-Journal:
A pile of dinosaur dung 130 million years old has been sold at auction to an Ohio man for $960.
A spokeswoman for Bonhams New York says the prehistoric deposit fetched more than its pre-auction estimate of $450 on Wednesday evening in Manhattan.
The auction house says the dung is Jurassic era coprolite. It looks like a rock on the outside and a colorful mineral inside. Steve Tsengas of Fairport Harbor, Ohio, near Cleveland, bought the pile.
Tsengas owns OurPets, a company that sells waste and odor control products for dog and cat droppings.
The 71-year-old Tsengas says he 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.
“Poop,” he says, “is a big business in the pet industry.”
* Oh. Maybe not. Turns out there’s a glut of dino dung on eBay. Who’d have thought. They even have dino poo pendants. That Ohio geezer got taken. Well, maybe this is special dino poo.
Topics: ancient mysteries
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:24 pm on Wednesday, April 30, 2008
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May 1st, 2008 at 12:56 am
I think he got more than $960 of free PR.
May 1st, 2008 at 11:33 am
I wonder how many times, during my many ramblings, I’ve picked up a piece of dinosaur poo and didn’t know what I was holding.