[meteorite-list] Attempted robbery, I am coming home.

From: Mal Bishop <magbish3_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:24:31 -0400
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20070725161944.0228d508_at_mail.lowcountry.com>

Mike,

Please come home safely and quickly for goodness sake!!!

There are few things worth your life in this world
other than family and friends!

Forget meteorites, you and Robert get your butts home fast, safe, and sound
- PRONTO!!!!



At 01:14 PM 7/25/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>Well, only hours after writing about how unsafe it is
>here in the Cali meteorite strewnfield, I now must
>write that only two hours ago I had a gun pointed at
>me and my friends in an attempted robbery/kidnapping.
>Robert and I were with a local astronomy group, in the
>barrios where the meteorites fell, and we spent the
>morning with two groups of news reporters, one for the
>El Pais newspaper, and one for a Colombian national TV
>station. We were warned several times to leave the
>area by the locals. After doing some interviews and
>photo ops hunting and talking with people, we got into
>two taxis and left to meet at a place for lunch. I was
>with two of the Colombian astronomy club members and
>as we tried to drive through a barrio just near where
>one of the stones was found, a man ran at the taxi
>with a large gun scraming at us to stop. I saw the
>people in the front of the taxi duck down and then saw
>the gunman running at us. The driver hit the gas and
>we swerved around him, but the gun was about 1 meter
>from my head.
>He did not fire thank god, but what a scare, we
>quickly tried to get out of the neigborhood and told
>police who ran to the place but we have no idea what
>happened later. We just fled.
>We are done here, it is clearly not safe enough to
>stay, Robert and I both have collection pieces, and
>having a gun near your head is enough to know when to
>call it even and go home.
>I am a little shook up right now, will write more
>about the meteorite later today or tonight. I already
>have a flight home tomorrow morning and plan to get
>out of Dodge as fast as possible. Those of you who
>don't hunt meteorites should appreciate the danger
>that those of us who do hunt, face in some of these
>countries.
>Michael Farmer
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Received on Wed 25 Jul 2007 04:24:31 PM PDT