Man donates $1M dinosaur skeleton to Creation Museum

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By REMA RAHMAN and ELISHA SAUERS

A candidate for Anne Arundel County Council recently donated dinosaur fossils to a creationist museum for an exhibit that claims the creatures roamed the Earth less than 5,000 years ago.

Michael Peroutka, the Republican nominee in the District 5 council race, presented the fossils at the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky., near Cincinnati, over the Memorial Day weekend.

Tax records show he valued the skeleton at $200,000, but the museum put its worth at $1 million.

Peroutka, 61, is a debt collection lawyer in Pasadena and former Constitution Party presidential candidate.


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Oh boy, a debt collector and a religious nutcase. What a combination. He must be a great party guest!

[onehandle]

1. This is exactly why I believe that treasures should belong to the people, not individuals.

Renoirs should be in museums, not in the downstairs powder rooms of millionaires.

[NightWatcher]

2. then McCain said, "get your damn hands off me, I'm not dead yet"

[Louisiana1976]

3. ....

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. They upped the estimated value when they found out it was once owned and driven

by Fred Flintstone.

[jberryhill]

5. passed down in the family for ages

[sarisataka]

7. Which value

does he get to claim on his taxes?
I bet I can guess

[zappaman]

6. I grew up in Anne Arundel County.

Hearing this makes me want to

[NuclearDem]

8. In related news, man donates globe to Flat Earth Society.