[meteorite-list] Fwd: Lorton meteorite should be 'the people's rock'

From: cdtucson at cox.net <cdtucson_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:44:44 -0500
Message-ID: <20100204164444.CNR73.310483.imail_at_fed1rmwml43>

George.
Just one moment here. What if the rightful owner of the glasses never claims
them? you have no idea who left them. Could have been a visitor asking for
directions. Who owns them? The landlord??? Nobody is not the right answer here.
Also, Nobody wants your tree but the key is that it is yours!
What if you are leasing the tree in a business that sells the fruit? Who is
responsible then? The owner of the tree or you because you are in legal control
of it. Just asking.
In the case of the contractor. Well, he did discover the treasure inside the
wall. What most would have done is haul it off into the truck as he was
contracted to do and never mention it ( haul away the debris) . What he did do
is tell the home owner and she wanted all of it. This case ended in all of her
relatives learning of it and the sum was divided many ways between all of them.
She got greedy and lost more than she gained . I love this case because greed
did not prevail. Her greed cost her mucho dineros . As a side note the
contractor did the right thing but it came down to. "No good deed goes
unpunished". As much as I hate to say that.
 I was an Architect/contractor and I know most of my subs would have simply
hauled away the envelope with the rest of the debris, medicine cabinet and all.
Plus she was lucky the envelope had her relatives name on it because it might
have belonged to a previous home owner. all of this played out in court. which
is why I want to see this in court.
I hate the fact that the Gov. gets to claim treasures found on fed. land. The
fed. land belongs to all of us. Gold basin material found on Fed. land all went
to the smithsonian. That is why the strewn field looks so bottom heavy. Take
care and thank you.. Carl

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Carl or Debbie Esparza 
Meteoritemax 
 
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Carl or Debbie Esparza
Meteoritemax
---- George Blahun Jr <ks1u at att.net> wrote: 
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> 
> Carl:
>     Hello and thanks for your comments and point of view.  I actually didn't intend for this to be taken as cut and  dry.  I do come down on the side of the land owners, but my reference to the EM Spectrum implies that there is always another point of view.  If you were unfortunate enough to be hit by a meteorite on someone else's property, I believe you'd be entitled to damages for your injury and pain and suffering.   If you were walking on my property here in CT and one of my black walnut trees fell on you, you could (and should) file a claim against my home owners policy, but I don't think you'd get to keep the black walnut tree which is probably  worth about 10K for the wood.  
>      In your example of the dollar bill, a fairly insignificant amount if you can afford to see a doctor, the dollar probably goes to the finder.  But if you drop your Maui Jim sunglasses there, you still have the right to them and neither the finder nor the doctor nor the landlord owns them.  Of course most communities have a procedure for claiming a lost and found, unlike a space rock.  This series of events changes if the object which hits you is from a military satellite.   They'd deny any responsibility but want it back anyhow. 
> 
>     There was a court case recently where a contractor was removing a wall in a house and found a bunch of money which had been hidden in there for decades.  The contractor tried to claim it using the old legal defense of "finders keepers losers weepers"  but the courts said, no.  
>     I guess we all have a slight bias when interpreting the law and what constitutes ownership.  This no doubt determines which side of this issue we each come down on.
> 
> George
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