[meteorite-list] meteorite news -2 arrested update (Dude-- Where's My Car edition)

From: Mike Gilmer <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 07:01:44 -0500
Message-ID: <e51421550904020501v53a074d6scae87942857473c7_at_mail.gmail.com>

Why not take a 12-gauge shotgun and shoot the image of our hobby? It
would have the same effect.

I'll wait to hear Mike and Sonny's side of the story before I pass
judgement, but unless it's a good explanation - they have both lost my
respect and business.

MikeG


On 4/2/09, Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net> wrote:
> Finally, a detailed account:
>
> http://www.wjbf.com/jbf/news/crime/article/meteorite_hunters_jailed_in_burke_county_for_trespassing/12297/
>
> The True Citizen | Liz Billups
> Published: April 1, 2009
>
> Burke County, GA?According to ?The True Citizen,? two Southwestern meteorite
> hunters found fame they weren?t searching for.
>
> Just one week after Las Vegas meteorite hunter Ralph ?Sonny? Clary, Jr. was
> interviewed by WJBF News Channel 6, he and Arizona hunter, Michael William
> Miller, were arrested for criminal trespass in Burke County.
>
> According to officers, the pair was searching for debris from the big March
> 20th
> meteorite sighting, when they zeroed in on a farm in the northern portion of
> the
> county, without permission.
>
> ?They went from famous to infamous,? one ranger said, after the pair was
> carted
> off to jail.
>
> The landowner called authorities, Monday morning, when she saw a strange Kia
> Rio
> parked on her property, and suspected poachers. DNR rangers say they were
> thrown
> off by the tiny white compact car, which is not popular among turkey
> hunters,
> but backed the landowner?s suspicions when they saw camouflage clothing
> inside.
>
> After an unproductive search in the nearby woods, the landowner had the Kia
> towed.
>
> The landowner and meteorite hunters came face to face when they came out of
> the
> woods and found their car missing. They knocked on her door for help; she
> ordered them to stay put, then both parties began simultaneously calling the
> cops.
>
> Clary and Miller told officers they hadn?t damaged anything and just wanted
> to
> pay the towing bill, and be on their way. The landowner said the men were
> profiteering on her property, without permission, and that she wanted them
> prosecuted ?to the fullest extent.?
>
> The suspects are scheduled to appear in state court, Wednesday morning.
>
> Would-be criminals should probably take heed. Last October, the same
> homeowner,
> at age 66, held two burglars face-down in the dirt with her pistol while she
> waited for deputies to come arrest them.
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Michael Gilmer (Louisiana, USA)
Member of the Meteoritical Society.
Member of the Bayou Region Stargazers Network.
Websites - http://www.galactic-stone.com and http://www.glassthrower.com
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Received on Thu 02 Apr 2009 08:01:44 AM PDT