[meteorite-list] Attempted robbery, I am coming home.

From: M come Meteorite Meteorites <info_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:32:19 +0200
Message-ID: <46a7b353.1a5.2795.1891930623_at_webmailh5.aruba.it>

Calm zone the Colombia....sinceraly I prefear my life to a
meteorite fall, I never go in a dangerous place where is
possible a group of person kill you for few...

Matteo

----- Original Message -----
Da : Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>
A : meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Oggetto : [meteorite-list] Attempted robbery, I am coming
home.
Data : Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:14:26 -0700 (PDT)

> Well, only hours after writing about how unsafe it is
> here in the Cali meteorite strewnfield, I now must
> write that only two hours ago I had a gun pointed at
> me and my friends in an attempted robbery/kidnapping.
> Robert and I were with a local astronomy group, in the
> barrios where the meteorites fell, and we spent the
> morning with two groups of news reporters, one for the
> El Pais newspaper, and one for a Colombian national TV
> station. We were warned several times to leave the
> area by the locals. After doing some interviews and
> photo ops hunting and talking with people, we got into
> two taxis and left to meet at a place for lunch. I was
> with two of the Colombian astronomy club members and
> as we tried to drive through a barrio just near where
> one of the stones was found, a man ran at the taxi
> with a large gun scraming at us to stop. I saw the
> people in the front of the taxi duck down and then saw
> the gunman running at us. The driver hit the gas and
> we swerved around him, but the gun was about 1 meter
> from my head.
> He did not fire thank god, but what a scare, we
> quickly tried to get out of the neigborhood and told
> police who ran to the place but we have no idea what
> happened later. We just fled.
> We are done here, it is clearly not safe enough to
> stay, Robert and I both have collection pieces, and
> having a gun near your head is enough to know when to
> call it even and go home.
> I am a little shook up right now, will write more
> about the meteorite later today or tonight. I already
> have a flight home tomorrow morning and plan to get
> out of Dodge as fast as possible. Those of you who
> don't hunt meteorites should appreciate the danger
> that those of us who do hunt, face in some of these
> countries.
> Michael Farmer
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Received on Wed 25 Jul 2007 04:32:19 PM PDT