The holiday shopping season is officially underway. I don't know about you, but I love giving one-of-a-kind gifts to my friends and family. But I think the folks at Miller Park Zoo in downstate Bloomington are missing the mark with their idea of a unique Christmas gift.
They're actually making and selling Christmas ornaments out of...get this ...droppings from reindeer. This is no joke folks.
Here's how they are made. First, the deer poop of course, and then their dung is dried - then clear-coated and either painted or rolled in glitter. The end result is called Magical Reindeer Gem Ornaments. They're sold in the zoo's gift shop for $5, and each comes with a label of authenticity.
Zoo director John Tobias says the idea for the ornaments came indirectly from a story heard about his Irish grandmother. It seems that back in the early 1900s, she would take chocolate drops and sprinkle them around so the children in the family would think that reindeer had really visited.
So what you think? Are these ornaments works of art?
Or just a little piece of dolled up poop?
