[meteorite-list] Peru news - finders keepers

From: Thaddeus Besedin <endophasy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:44:42 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <13541.32823.qm_at_web62515.mail.re1.yahoo.com>

Just because something lands on "your" land doesn't
mean you "own" it. What if luggage containing money
came out of the sky, creating a crater, from an
airplane that exploded in mid-air? Would I "own" the
money? What if I found a human burial while digging a
pool. Would I own the skull? You make us all look like
collaborators with looters and traffickers. This legal
stalemate itself is the problem. The Peruvian
government is not going to put it on ebay, you know;
what a waste, you must think. National patrimony
should not be sold.
-Thaddeus
--- Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I just had a 30 minute conversation with the
> landowner
> in Carancas.
> He told me some interesting news. The federal
> government of Peru has threatened imprisonment for
> anyone who attempts to excavate the meteorite. The
> townspeople want to dig it up, as I know well since
> I
> was at the meeting where it was voted for.
> The scientists are threatening the people, saying
> that
> the meteorite will go to Lima and they will not be
> compensated. This is causing a huge problem down
> there.
> So what was written today is total crap. I never
> said
> the meteorite was worth a million dollars or
> anything
> like that. The people are not idiots, they know it
> is
> worth a lot of money, and they hope to better their
> lives with it. The government is dashing those
> dreams
> by forbidding it's removal. They are allowing it to
> be
> destroyed both for science and any economical gain.
>
> I tried to contact Nunez del Prado, I am going to
> lay
> into him, for spreading these lies about me.
> Whatever
> problems they are having are their own between them
> and the locals. I guess they think they have the
> right
> to just romp in, do what they want, and take the
> meteorite from the villagers. It seems the villagers
> have other ideas.
>
> Michael Farmer
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Received on Fri 26 Oct 2007 05:44:42 AM PDT