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Posted by: Randy | July 31, 2009 8:00 PM

The sheer awesomeness of that is a great way to start my weekend...

Posted by: NixNoctua | July 31, 2009 8:02 PM

W00t! I wanna plywood dinosaur! oh, and uh: HAHA HOVIND, HAHA!

Posted by: Anon | July 31, 2009 8:04 PM

The cheaper the better--the article notes that the combined value of the properties is more than what the Hovinds owe, and that any extra will be returned to them.

If the plots sell for pennies on the dollar, however...

Posted by: 'Tis Himself, Quel Dommage | July 31, 2009 8:08 PM

I've been looking at a bunch of pictures from Dinosaur Adventure Land and I failed to see a single dinosaur.

Posted by: JD | July 31, 2009 8:14 PM

Not until I pay the association fees on my Loch Ness condo.

Posted by: Larry | July 31, 2009 8:22 PM

Dibs on the saddle jesus used to ride his dinosaur!

Posted by: Ryan | July 31, 2009 8:31 PM

Actually this would be a great opportunity for someone to see if that business plan from South Park episode "Cartmanland" really works.

Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | July 31, 2009 8:33 PM

this saddens me deeply

Posted by: Aly | July 31, 2009 8:47 PM

YES! I live in Pensacola, and my daycare took me to that park one time. I don't remember much of it, as it was probably ten years ago, but I do know it was really lame. There was a little minigolf area and then arcade games inside. I didn't get the whole religious vibe (six is too young, perhaps), but after a few years I realized what it was. Having been raised Hindu, I didn't have to be atheist to be disgusted with the whole Christian deal. I believe they even have a billboard advertising the park.

Maybe something constructive can be built there now.

Posted by: Lance | July 31, 2009 9:10 PM

There's a dino right here on page 2. http://www.dinosauradventureland.com/media.php

Posted by: Hexhunter | July 31, 2009 9:16 PM

Crudely-Painted Dinosaur-Shaped Plywood Creationist-Propoganda! Crudely-Painted Dinosaur-Shaped Plywood Creationist-Propoganda! Crudely-Painted Dinosaur-Shaped Plywood Creationist-Propoganda! Hi, I'm Kent Hovind, President and CEO of Kent Hovind's Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man Emporium and Warehouse! Thanks to my recent lack of success in stealing people's money and mind's with religion and failing to illegally hide my assets from the government I am now currently overstocked on Crudely-Painted Dinosaur-Shaped Plywood Creationist-Propoganda, and I am passing the savings on to you! Attract customers to your business, Make a splash at your next presentation, Keep grandma company, Protect your crops. Confuse your neighbors, entertain the kids, scare the pets! Whatever your Crudely-Painted Dinosaur-Shaped Plywood Creationist-Propoganda needs are! So come on down to Kent Hovind's Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man Emporium and Warehouse quickly as they are a tremendous fire hazard! Route 2 in Weekapaug.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_hovind#Sentencing.2C_appeals.2C_and_prison_life_.282007-2009.29
http://familyguy.wikia.com/wiki/Al_Harrington

I say we buy it up and only change the text's so instead of the creationist museum it becomes the museum dedicated to that bizarre idea that some American's had at the start of the 21st century where people can go to point and laugh at these weird ideas.

Then you realise it's making no money so you shut it down for a few years then it get's converted to an event area for gigs and massive stage shows...

The FSM may look kindly upon us if we dedicate a museum to his Noodly image.

Posted by: Adam | July 31, 2009 9:34 PM

Commandment #11 - Thou shalt not pay taxes.

Posted by: scooter | July 31, 2009 10:00 PM

I've heard that there is some controversey as to just how old those plywood dinosaurs really are.

Posted by: Marcus Ranum | July 31, 2009 10:59 PM

Y'know, maybe someone would be able to open kind of like a Madame Tussaud's museum to really dumb stuff. Yeah, that's it:
SchadenfreudeLand

I bet the failblog guys would license material! See the amazing scale model of the yacht falling onto the dock! See Hovind in his jail cell waiting for god to save him! Talk to our trained Vox Day impersonator - he's really SMRT! And, over here, our life-size exhibit of the guy who liked to hug grizzly bears!(Well, his shoes, anyway)

Posted by: littlejohn | July 31, 2009 11:20 PM

Where's your god now, dino boy?

Posted by: Sarah | July 31, 2009 11:39 PM

You know, I never thought I'd say this, but...
Praise the IRS!!!

Posted by: michael brown | August 1, 2009 12:14 AM

i went there with my elementary school a long long time ago... i live in pensacola and cant help but think this may be the best thing to happen here since... well, nothing really happens here. we just go to the beach a ton.

Posted by: Brian X | August 1, 2009 12:45 AM

I love how he tried to dump all the property off on Glenn Stoll, who is the sovereign citizen whacktard who helped him into so much trouble in the first place.

Has anyone threatened enough of their sanity to read any of Hovind's "knee-mail"? There was a time not long after prison where he was writing masturbatory dialogues with God that led me to believe he was starting to come unraveled.

Posted by: pdferguson | August 1, 2009 1:22 AM

The best part of this is, if you trade in your old gas-guzzling dinosaur, you can get one of these babies with up to $3500 cash back under Obama's "cash for clunkers" program!

Posted by: Xenithrys | August 1, 2009 1:39 AM

Do you suppose the Pharyngulites could raise the 470k (not a penny more to be returned to Hovind) and run the park as an evolution theme park? The theme could be a 5 km walk through Earth history, with islam, christianity and judaism taking up the last 1-5 mm.

Posted by: Fizzygoo | August 1, 2009 2:13 AM

Awe, Bronze Dog beat me to a D&D reference :)

Posted by: Tom M | August 1, 2009 3:49 AM

There are likely to be real fund-raisers in some churches this week to "save" the park. Let's face it, these are people who gave money to buy the domestic terrorist Randall Terry a house, so there must be people who are dumb enough to give money for this unworthy cause.

Posted by: Thunderbird5 | August 1, 2009 8:32 AM

How can the native children of this haven of greatness be so dismissive? The government should put Kent's $430,400 towards furthering Pensacola's one claim to greatness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87nkJquHnAU

Posted by: baliset | August 1, 2009 12:18 PM

Oh yes, if you head over to Kent's own website at cseblogs.com he's still at it. Nothing specific about the imminent dissolution of his theme park, but an ironic post about the sheer *unfairness* of the law, since, gosh darn it, if those drug possessing room-mates of his deserve to be let out early, then why, Kent (who never, ever drinks alcohol) should be a-let out too. That's really what his argument boils down to.

I think it's perverse to hear Kent opine about crime and punishment from his vantagepoint. There are only so many contradictions a person can spew out before everyone starts laughing and pointing. Either God reigns and dispenses justice, or he does not. Either doers of evil get their just desserts or they do not. Either Kent is precisely where he deserves to be, or he is not.

What do you think is the lesson God wants Kent to learn? Kent lies and steals.
Kent goes to jail.
Ken shows no contrition.
Kent stays in jail for ten years.
Kent's wife goes to jail.
Kent shows not a word of grief about the fate he put his wife to.
Kent's wife gets no reprieve.
Kent's property is forfeit.
Kent lectures at length about the need to release drug-addled soulmates from prison.
Kent.. hang on, let me check... Yep, still there!

The apologist will wave this away. "It is a test! A test!" On this point I have no qualm. The test has been applied again and again, and Kent has failed again and again, and will continue to fail until this blog shows a letter from Kent that starts "My God, what have I done?"

Posted by: DLC | August 1, 2009 9:28 PM

Okay, so Kent's world comes to an end. So he'll have to start over. First, he'll need a tent. because there has to be a firmament overhead. Then, he can hang a lantern on the tent pole and light it. Saying, let there be light. And, while the fuel lasts (8 days if you do it right) there will be light. and it will be good. Then Kent can add some dirt and some water. A puddle of mud in the tent, off to one side, will be fine. Then, Kent can beg for some plastic army men or maybe some Ken and Barbie dolls, and some animal crackers.
See, he'll have created the heavens and the earth, and it'll only take him about a week! If he can get his Prison buddy Lou to help.

Posted by: Paul Murray | August 2, 2009 12:49 AM

"Okay, so Kent's world comes to an end. So he'll have to start over."

And why not? Peter Popoff is back on the air. I'd like to keep dino wolrd just as it is, with the addition of an adults-only section depicting the sexual misdemeanors of all the various TV preachers, and a flowchart showing where the money went that all the good christians gave to the lord to build dino-world.

Posted by: Prometevsberg | August 3, 2009 10:33 AM

Is it just me, or is somebody else also thinking:
Befuddled lawyer get appointed administrator of seized creationist dinosaur park; hilarity ensues=TV pilot?

Posted by: Rae Ross | August 3, 2009 2:15 PM

Praise Dog this testement to scientific illiteracy is going the way of the dinosaurs. On some level I find it poetic and just.

Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | August 5, 2009 1:53 PM

Poor Dr. Dino. Guess he forgot to fill out his W-4, and God didn't remind him. But...God is infallible, so he must have done it on purpose. To test his faith?

Oh it's way more than forgetting to fill out his W-4.