[meteorite-list] Fwd: What a sleezy character you are.

From: M come Meteorite Meteorites <mcomemeteorite2004_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 17:59:59 +0100 (CET)
Message-ID: <69998.59584.qm_at_web26203.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

and after I am the person start the fights in the
list....sure I not put private emails in the list...

Matteo

--- Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com> ha
scritto:

> Hi eveyone, I have just emerged from a near 3 week
> meteorite hunting expedition, and checking my email,
> recieved this from our "highly edumacated" friend in
> Peru. Just by reading this, you can all see the
> civility and manners which ooze from this man.
> Michael Farmer
>
> --- Randall Gregory <randall_gregory at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:26:26 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Randall Gregory <randall_gregory at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: What a sleezy character you are.
> > To: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>
> >
> > Farmer,
> >
> > Out of curiousity I did a little checking.
> Dropped
> > out of college to pursue meteorite hunting? Greed
> > won out over education. How pathetic. I see you
> > found your little niche, being the first one to
> > pounce on a new find. Your greed just pours out of
> > these articles. How much of the park forest did
> you
> > keep for yourself after telling the police you
> > needed to cut it. Well... Fatboy, I guess my post
> > was directed straight to you. My little net caught
> a
> > big fat fish. I'm making copies of your little
> > pig-face picture and will send them to my friends
> in
> > Aplao along with a increase in reward. And in the
> > future, you just might find me one step ahead at
> new
> > falls, especially in South America.
> >
> > Randall
> >
> >
> > It's a cutthroat business, Farmer says, where
> > there is a huge demand for a very small amount of
> > material
> >
> > Breaking into the business was difficult, Farmer
> > recalls, but he earned the respect of established
> > dealers by being first on the scene of three
> > high-profile meteorite falls
> >
> > The first two trips didn't pay off immediately,
> > but they earned him the reputation of being a
> > go-getter. A football-size meteorite fell on
> > Monahans, Texas in March 1998. Within 30 hours,
> > Farmer was on the scene, but it was already too
> > late. There was already a fight between the
> finders
> > and the city over who rightfully owned the rock, a
> > meteorite broker was already involved and NASA was
> > trying to get the rock. Shortly after Farmer got
> to
> > Monahans, a NASA researcher arrived to bargain
> with
> > the town to take the rock for study at the Johnson
> > Space Center in Houston. Farmer left with nothing.
> >
> > Three months later a mess of meteorites from a
> > rock that exploded in the air fell near Portales
> > Valley, New Mexico, not far from the Texas
> > panhandle. Farmer again went straight to the
> desert
> > region where people had seen the fall, and he was
> > just in time to see an amateur collector find an
> > 11-pound (5-kilogram) chunk of the rock. Farmer
> > tried to buy it, but the finder wouldn't sell.
> > Farmer found a few small pieces, but nothing
> major.
> > In April 1999, Farmer heard about a new fall in
> > Ourique, Portugal. Without a second thought, he
> > bought a ticket to Lisbon and jumped on a plane
> with
> > $10,000 cash.
> > "I heard about it in a little note on the
> > Internet. And I took the risk and just flew over
> > there," Farmer explained. He rented a car and
> drove
> > to the small village in southwest Portugal, and
> > within hours he had cornered the world market on
> the
> > prized new meteorite
> > "It had just never made the news, " Farmer said,
> > "until this little thing came on the Internet
> about
> > it being classified." Scientists at the university
> > had classified the meteorite -- determined its
> > composition, its type and given it a name. They
> > posted and announcement on the Internet, where
> > Farmer saw it. He was in Portugal the day after
> > reading the very first public mention of the
> > meteorite.
> >
> > Farmer went into the town tavern, set up his
> > scales on the bar, and spread the word that he
> would
> > pay for pieces of meteorite
> > The investment paid off, though. Having the
> entire
> > world market of a brand new fall, Farmer had no
> > trouble unloading the material. It became a rock
> > that everybody had to have. From museums to
> private
> > collectors, everyone wanted a piece.
> > He traded some pieces with museums for other
> rare
> > meteorite types, and sold the rest through his
> > website at $10 a gram.
> >
> > He called me up a couple days before Christmas
> and
> > needed money," Farmer said, "I told him I'd be
> there
> > the next day with cash. I got it -- for a much
> lower
> > price than I offered originally."
> >
> > He was in Uruguay in January arranging a big
> > purchase. He sped to Canada in March when he heard
> > that pieces of a meteorite that exploded in the
> sky
> > above the Yukon Territory had been found on the
> > ground. He had no luck because the finder was
> > determined to keep the location a secret, but
> others
> > in the meteorite community applaud his efforts.
> > ) I hunt for meteorites all over the world. My
> > meteorite hunting trips include Australia, Chile,
> > Bolivia, Canada, all over the USA, Oman, Burkina
> > Faso, Lesotho, Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Western
> > Sahara, India and Mexico. I have found several
> > hundred Oman meteorites, including a LUNAR! I have
> > also found pieces of these famous meteorites,
> > Portales Valley, Mundrabilla, Canyon Diablo,
> > Holbrook, Gold basin, al Mahbas, Imilac,
> Monturaqui,
> > Park Forest, and many others
> >
> > I really want a large multi-kilo Allende, I have
> > had a couple, but sold them. Otherwise, I want any
> > historic fall I can get.
> >
> > The 116-gram meteorite, carved from one that
> > weighed 180 grams, is being relinquished by
> Michael
> > Farmer of Tucson, a globe-trotting meteorite
> dealer,
> > who says he resented the implication of police
> that
> > the rock was stolen Farmer, who has made a living
> > buying and selling meteorites for the last seven
> > years, was on an airplane to Chicago the next day,
> > and spent the next two weeks buying pieces of the
> > meteorite from residents who found them outside
> and
> > inside their homes.
> >
> > Farmer said he spent about $40,000, paying
> premium
> > prices in some cases because that's what finders
> > demanded and because his customers will pay more
> for
> > a meteorite with a documented story behind it.
> >
> >
> > DioGuardi said Tuesday that no threats of legal
> > action were made or implied and no accusations of
> > trafficking in stolen goods were made against
> Farmer
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> > Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate
> > in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A.
>
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