…Dinosaur dung sells at NYC auction for nearly $1,000
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
(04-30) 19:28 PDT New York (AP) –
A pile of dinosaur dung 130 million years old sold at a New York auction Wednesday for nearly $1,000.
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.”
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Doug :rolleyes:
Hey folks,
Joey & I don’t just spew “bull crap”, we spew “Tyrannosaurus Rex crap” (preferably on home made bread)!!! We keep tellin’ ya the great nation of Ohio is special! :rolleyes:
Mikey
QUOTE;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." End Quote.
"Your the Boss? “Your trying to motivate your Employees with POOP?”
LOL
Doug
Yes, Doug… IN OHIO, “Bosses who motivate with poop”, are not uncommon at all.
Remember, “OHIO”. “OHIO”. Not, a normal, civilized, modern country, keep in mind.
They’re the ONLY inhabited principal, country, land mass, etc. that actually has,(and is PROUD OF IT, too!),besides… a “National Bird”-The Albatross, “National Animal”-“The Opossum”, “National Flower”-“The Dandelion”, but also has a “National Substance”-“130 million year old poop”.
There are MANY, wonderful things, that make Ohio and it’s residents very proud. However, someone lost the Post-It that the list was written on and now no one can remember what they were.
A couple of VERY OLD, “old timers”, remember that “fudge and home made bread”, were two things written on the Post-It, but the rest may be, forever lost, to history.
