[meteorite-list] The Grand Meteorite Theft

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Jul 12 14:57:29 2006
Message-ID: <012201c6a5e5$01219630$4f41fea9_at_name86d88d87e2>

Hi list,

as the attitude to fire arms in USA and the involved risks of rates of
killings are always somewhat scary to Europeans,
I have to say, that I'm very content with the work of my guard cats
and honestly, if you don't collect pallasite slices and if you don't have
precious display arrangement,
never it would occur to a thief, that those black and brown stones and lumps
of irons would have an interesting value.
They most probably would bag everything else, but not the meteorites.
Devilish trick, store your specimen cards elsewhere, then da thief never
will see cash for the stuff, hehe.

Let's collect cases, where meteorites were stolen, to see, whether such
stalwart precausions are necessary or not:

(Aaaah, I don't mean from the deserts, but from private and institutional
collections...).

- The main mass of Ramsdorf was stolen from the house of the finder.
- Remember Bernd Rems (where is he?), the burglars stole everything else,
but not the meteorites, took only 2 little meteorites, which were not stored
in the vitrines, but were laying on the desk.

Some more?

Buckleboo!
Martin

PS: Matteo, be sure that I never will visit you, a fire arm in the hands of
such a unrestrained impulsive person is to dangerous for me...

 
Received on Wed 12 Jul 2006 02:57:17 PM PDT