[meteorite-list] Peru insanity continues

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:36:07 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <264668.79403.qm_at_web33114.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Isnt this hilarious?
Let me break this down really easy. We went there,
paid money and made the extremely poor people very
happy. Bob Haag did the same.
Now the scientists had me almost arrested, even though
no Peruvian law had been broken. The meteorite belongs
to the landowner and the village of carancas.
The police and government people all want a piece of
that action, so they are trying to get it from the
townspeople for nothing in return.
The fact that the scientists are blocked is not due to
me, it is due to themselves and their own greed at
having it all to themselves. Do you think the locals
were happy when we had to flee? I called them and told
them what happened, so they are not happy that the
only one who paid them money for their stones was
chased away.

They did this to themselves.
Michael Farmer
--- Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net> wrote:

> This whole situation started as a drama, turned into
> a comedy, and ended up a
> farce.
>
>
http://www.livinginperu.com/news-4953-environmentnature-villagers-puno-peru-guard-meteorite-keep-scientists-from-studying-area
>
> Villagers in Puno, Peru Guard Meteorite and Keep
> Scientists from Studying the
> Area
>
> (LIP-ir) -- Regional Geology Director for Peru's
> Geological, Mining and
> Metallurgical Institute (INGEMMET), Hernando N??ez
> del Prado, stated yesterday
> that the townspeople of Carancas, Puno, Peru were
> suffering from "a type of
> collective psychosis" due to the fact that they had
> established a 24-hour watch
> around the crater where the meteorite had landed.
>
> N??ez explained that the townspeople were treating
> the crater as a "treasure
> which had to be protected day and night," explaining
> that they feared losing
> fragments of the meteorite.
>
> N??ez affirmed that this behavior was only getting
> in the way of scientists
> which were attempting to study the meteorite.
>
> Furthermore, it was reported that a group of
> townspeople kept INGEMMET
> scientists which had traveled to Carancas from
> getting close to the crater and
> studying it. N??ez also stated that a group from
> Peru's Geophysics Institute
> (IGP) was also kept from doing research in the area.
>
> N??ez assured that the townspeople's behavior was
> due to the fact that the
> 'meteorite hunter' Michael Farmer, who was in
> Carancas, Peru and bought pieces
> of the meteorite, had told the people that they had
> one million dollars in the
> crater.
>
> It was reported that Farmer paid villagers US$1000
> for 300 grams of the
> meteorite. Since then, 400 locals have organized
> themselves into two groups
> which guard the crater day and night. N??ez has
> stated that the situation in
> Puno, Peru is "very tense."
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Received on Tue 23 Oct 2007 12:36:07 PM PDT