[meteorite-list] Warning to armchair fireball chasers

From: Michael Farmer <meteoritehunter_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:11:01 -0700
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Steve if you want to bring me
Into your every email the I can play. Now we can both drop it tha
would be ok
Michael

Sent from my iPhone
Michael


On Jul 12, 2009, at 1:59 PM, MeteorHntr at aol.com wrote:

> Hello List,
>
> I have just had some great off list correspondence with Dave
> Ghessling
> over at FallingRocks.com.
>
> He, like a gentleman, expressed off list with me a concern that I had
> mistakenly lumped the Georgia Fireball of this year in with the
> group of events
> that has revealed some of the so called "armchair fireball chasers."
>
> I want to state on the record that I was mistaken. That it seems I
> was
> wrong, and that the only offers made in Georgia were by people on
> the ground
> in Georgia and not via others long distance. And in no way did I
> intend to
> implicate him personally in any wrong doing.
>
> In fact, I want to go so far as to say that I personally don't
> think there
> is anything wrong with people going public with making purchase
> offers.
> Of course I don't think one should claim to offer, for example,
> $10,000 for
> the first one pound rock, unless they are indeed willing and able
> to follow
> through with such an offer.
>
> I know different people have different opinions on this topic. I
> agree
> that those types of public offers can create problems in the field,
> but not
> making those public offers can also create problems (namely, fewer
> local
> people out looking).
>
> I personally don't currently make those kind of offers, but I don't
> stand
> in judgement against people who do.
>
> My whole intent of that post was to just let people know, when they
> do
> talk to people, such as the person who talked to Mike Hankey, long
> distance
> and over the phone, and asked him not to share his information with
> anyone
> else... those kinds of things can get repeated, and in the case of
> the
> Baltimore Sun, they can make the front page news.
>
> That's all. My post wasn't in opposition to or in support of chasing
> meteorites from home.
>
> I hope this clears this up. My apologies to Dave and to anyone
> else that
> might have taken my comment of the Georgia event incorrectly.
>
> I also want to thank Dave for being a stand up guy and talking to me
> directly about this and not going behind my back and bad mouthing
> me to others.
> And I want to thank Dave for taking this to me personally first
> instead of
> taking the opportunity to post publicly something that was so
> easily taken
> care of privately.
>
> I appreciate gentlemen like him in this business who act as such.
>
> Steve Arnold
> of "Meteorite Men"
> (ha, what are you looking for this time Mike?)
>
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