[meteorite-list] Strange things found while hunting for meteorites : )

From: tracy latimer <daistiho_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:48:23 +0000
Message-ID: <SNT120-W588088A3AD9303C6B31054CAD80_at_phx.gbl>

This wasn't on a meteorite hunt, it was while my husband and I were out playing paintball in an 'unimproved' section of Windward Oahu.? Renegade fields are not uncommon, sharing ground with hikers and pig hunters, and the players all parked their cars at the foot of some deeply eroded areas and hiked into the field, maybe a half mile.? No one had a 4x4 that day, but obviously people had managed to get Jeeps and other vehicles up the very poor tracks into the area.? While we were playing, several people decided to explore the farther ends of the field.? At the end of one of the Jeep trails, there was a collection of long-abandoned shacks, Quonset huts, and stripped cars, one of which was a brand new van from a music store.? It looked like someone had been using this area to dump stolen vehicles, after taking what they wanted.? We finished playing and called the police on the van; we had no idea how they had managed to wriggle that van up into that area.? Maybe pot farmers?? Aside from the van, nothing else in
 the area looked like it had been used for years.? It could have been someone's homestead, or even an abandoned WWII storage area.

Best!
Tracy Latimer

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> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:12:08 -0500
> From: meteoritemike at gmail.com
> To: joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com
> CC: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Strange things found while hunting for meteorites : )
>
> Yeah, when we first found it, we were a little apprehensive. Our
> first reaction was to high-tail it out of there before some crazy hobo
> emerged from the lean-to pointing a gun at us. But we soon realized
> that the site had been abandoned for some time, so we looked around a
> bit and poked through the debris, looking for anything of interest or
> value. It did feel really weird, because I kept wondering where the
> camp owner went, who he/she was, and why they were living in a crude
> camp out in the middle of nowhere. Was it someone on the run from the
> law? Someone down on their luck? Or were they doing something
> illegal out there? It made the hair on the back of my neck stand up a
> bit, and my hand was close to my Arkansas toothpick the whole time we
> were there.
>
>
>
> On 2/21/11, JoshuaTreeMuseum wrote:
> > Mike:
> > I stumbled upon almost the exact same setup while traipsing through the
> > dense thicket looking for soft-shell turtles somewhere in the middle of
> > Florida back in the late 1970s. I thought it was some kind of camp for
> > runaway kids. It would be weird to live in those conditions. I kept thinking
> > a psycho was about to murder me at any minute so I didn't stay long.
> >
> > Phil Whitmer
> >
> > -------------------------
> >
> > While not a meteorite story, my stepson and I did find something
> > strange while hunting for fossils and arrowheads. While exploring a
> > wooded area near the Hillsborough River, just outside of Tampa, we
> > stumbled across an abandoned homeless camp. There was a lean-to with
> > a mattress in it, a big plastic kiddie pool (for bathing and/or
> > catching rainwater), the remnants of a garden, an animal coop, and a
> > very odd assortment of bottles, buckets, birdhouses, and other
> > objects. This out in the middle of a densely-wooded area, far off any
> > trails, and it was a little spooky because it was hidden so well.
> > Everything was low to the ground and concealed with palmetto fronds
> > and vegetation. We literally walked right into the middle of it
> > before we saw it. We took a few photos, logged the GPS coordinates,
> > and kept on going.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > MikeG
> >
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