Does anybody remember a story from a few years ago about a prison inmate...

[arcadian]

Who found some dinosaur bones in the prison yard, then got some books about dinosaurs and found more bones and over the years became a respected paleontologist? Can't remember where I saw it. I think the prison was in Pennsylvania. It might have happened in the 1960s or so.

[arcadian]

1. I found it.

It was dinosaur tracks, not bones.

http://books.google.com/books?id=CXgDfoKukz0C&pg=PA89&lpg=PA89&dq=prison+paleontologist+inmate+Wayne+Covington&source=bl&ots=riG4Z8Omne&sig=weJliRJRcdr7m5D7S40IWZrkKqA&hl=en&ei=KJsqS4q7Kom1tgf2ivD5CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CA8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=prison%20paleontologist%20inmate%20Wayne%20Covington&f=false

[qnr]

2. Glad we could help. Seriously though, thanks for the link, I'd never heard the story n/t

[Pool Hall Ace]

3. Your reply cracks my shit up, for some reason.

:rofl: And I thank you for that!

[qnr]

4. My pleasure - and thanks for letting me kow :) n/t

[arcadian]

5. I'm gonna take credit for that. For setting it up.

I think it's my desperate plea for help and then my innocent response offering the helpful and informative information that I had requested after so many posters clearly ignored my call for help, is what cracks your shit up. Then qnr's response. :P

[Pool Hall Ace]

8. And that is a fascinating story about the inmate.

I tried Googling to see what he was in for, but wasn't able to turn anything up.

Great sig pic you have, too! :thumbsup:

[qnr]

10. Yes, you get the win on that one. Technically though, you weren't ignored. I did

a little browsing, but I didn't have a lot of specifics, and then real life intruded :)

[arcadian]

11. Naa, your response was more clever.

I was just being sad and pathetic kicking my own thread with a response for myself.

:P

[old mark]

6. There was another story of dino tracks found around Quakertown, PA

maybe 15-20 years ago while they were digging up a field to put in a minimall. The trackls were photographed, and then paved over - they are now a parking lot.

mark

[arcadian]

7. I hope they protected them some how.

Actually being covered back up is probably the best protection, but not if they just poured asphalt directly into them.

[old mark]

9. I really don't recall, but I get a bad feeling when I think about it -

I think the bulldozed them out of existence.


mark