"Excuse Me, Sir? We're Here to Repossess Your Dinosaur"
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Monday September 28, 2009
"How low can a bill collector go? There's a fascinating story on the Argentine website Momento24 about the attempt of some disgruntled German bondholders to take possession of a traveling exhibit of huge Argentinean dinosaurs, including, you guessed it, a skeleton of the giant sauropod Argentinosaurus. The article has been translated rather erratically into English, but the gist of it seems to be that the nation of Argentina is in arrears to Germany to the tune of $20 billion, and individual German creditors have been looking to take matters into their own hands--even if that involves dino-napping.
Will Argentinosaurus and its pals (including a rare Eoraptor) wind up being held hostage in Europe? That seems unlikely, the writer says, since the dinosaur bones technically belong to the Argentine provinces in which they were found, and not to the central government. Under international law, too, the dinosaurs count as cultural and not financial assets, making it unlikely that they could ever be legally."
dinosaurs.about.com/.../dinosaur-evolution-a-little-knowledge-is-a-dangerous-thing.htm -
Monday September 28, 2009
"How low can a bill collector go? There's a fascinating story on the Argentine website Momento24 about the attempt of some disgruntled German bondholders to take possession of a traveling exhibit of huge Argentinean dinosaurs, including, you guessed it, a skeleton of the giant sauropod Argentinosaurus. The article has been translated rather erratically into English, but the gist of it seems to be that the nation of Argentina is in arrears to Germany to the tune of $20 billion, and individual German creditors have been looking to take matters into their own hands--even if that involves dino-napping.
Will Argentinosaurus and its pals (including a rare Eoraptor) wind up being held hostage in Europe? That seems unlikely, the writer says, since the dinosaur bones technically belong to the Argentine provinces in which they were found, and not to the central government. Under international law, too, the dinosaurs count as cultural and not financial assets, making it unlikely that they could ever be legally."
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