$960 for this pile of crap? Sold!

I think it was in Raiders of the Lost Ark where the bad guy pointed out that something worth little or nothing, buried for several thousand years, becomes valuable when someone digs it up. Case in point:

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.

And what kind of person, exactly, buys a 130 million-year-old pile of crap?

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.

Ah, a poo professional. And just think, 130 million years from now, someone will dig up the stuff he works on and sell it for hundreds of quatloos, or whatever currency they'll be using at that point.