Stern's Idiots of the day: Chinese Villagers eat dinosaur bones

[CptStern]

Villagers in central China dug up a ton of dinosaur bones and boiled them in soup or ground them into powder for traditional medicine, believing they were from flying dragons and had healing powers.

Until last year, the fossils were being sold in Henan province as "dragon bones" at about 4 yuan (50 cents) per kilogram (2.2 pounds), scientist Dong Zhiming told The Associated Press on Wednesday

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3344705&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312


Li: wha happen to frying ah dragon?

Chin: Oh that crazy Ming ate it all, ....he no feel so good





disclaimer: me make bad joke, not selious

 

[Geogaddi]

Racist

 

[Beerdude26]

Flyin Dragunz? D:

 

[Gunner]

Well at least they're eating long dead and extinct animals, that's sort of an improvement over endangered species I suppose.

 

[Adabiviak]

Really ancient Chinese secret.

 

[Jintor]

Poor, uneducated... they're not as idiotic as the other 300 guys you posted.

At least they donated the bones to research when they found out.

 

[<RJMC>]

isnt the dragon a symbol of china? they eated a national symbol! execution!

 

[VirusType2]

Really ancient Chinese secret.

 

[Jintor]

isnt the dragon a symbol of china? they eated a national symbol! execution!

Which dragon? There's a shitload.

 

[Taboo]

Dinosaur fossil /= dinosaur bone. And I have no idea what would bring someone to eat a dinosaur fossil.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

eh, **** it. If they derived some kind of joy it they went to good use

 

[Stucco]

Well at least they're eating long dead and extinct animals, that's sort of an improvement over endangered species I suppose.

Not really. The important points of an endangered species are:

* that they are something that there is not many of left.

* once they are all gone, they're gone.

I'm pretty sure Dinosaur fossils fit into a similar "not many left, so lets not let a few people ruin it for everyone else by squandering them for silly selfish little reasons" category.

 

[-Psy-]

Now I'm hungry.

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

A flying dragon? As opposed to a swimming or walking dragon?

 

[comoxer]

^^^ ^^^

Ill be checking my spare ribs next time I order them