[meteorite-list] Carancas

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:14:36 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <926386.52620.qm_at_web33108.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

I had three people in my party, so how they reported 5
Americans is beyond me. It shows the lack in
information that they use in Peru to print the news.
I have been on the phone for hours with the press in
Peru, and the embassy, and I have a funny feeling that
this will get much nastier now, that I have denounced
the police and Randall and forwarded his emails to the
press in Peru!
This should be fun, especially the report of Randall
that he bought a 4 kilo stone from the chief of
police, the same one who came to arrest me for
"trafficking" meteorites. I guess his own sales were
ok, but not my purchases from him:)
I think the police in that town are about to be in a
little trouble, as the Peruvian press is loving to
hear my side of the story, with emails to prove it!

I speak fluent Spanish, I guess Randall did not know
this. Too bad for him.
Michael Farmer


By the way, I did not pay bribes, I paid EXTORTION
money, and I assure you that if you were in our shoes,
you would pay when extorted, of course I played dumb
and paid them little, and got out of there.


--- "E.P. Grondine" <epgrondine at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Robert, all -
>
> At least the newspaper got it right - "5" meteorite
> traficantes - Farmer had 3 in his party, so you were
> in the company of someone else.
>
> And yes, la mordida is a bane, of which you have
> mastery. There is one thing that can be said for
> Farmer, at least he openly reported his bribes - you
> haven't.
>
> Others here have pointed out that you ripped off the
> locals by preying on their ignorance of the market
> and
> offering them low prices.
>
> In Canada, this kind of thing would not happen
> because
> of the laws there. On the other hand, a lot of Moss
> Lake was lost.
>
> The question here is did you enter into a contract
> with the land owner, and if so when? Did the land
> owner allow others to collect on his land? The
> money
> from the sales of the pieces that the police seized
> from the finders must either be given to them or to
> the land owners. But there is a fat chance of that
> happening.
>
> So how about a list of who bought what from whom
> when
> you go to catalog? Say "Oficer Jose" or "Mayor
> Jorge"?
>
> Robert, you're being just plain nasty here. Please
> stop insulting Farmer, and please stop using a false
> name and false title.
>
> E.P. Grondine
> Man and Impact in the Americas
>
>
>
>
>
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Received on Thu 04 Oct 2007 02:14:36 PM PDT