[meteorite-list] Lorton Meteorite: Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers

From: Eric Wichman <eric_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:28:42 -0700
Message-ID: <4E21056A.6050505_at_meteoritesusa.com>

For the record...

The landowners dropped the case because it was a PR nightmare for them
because the Doctors and the Smithsonian pulled bogus and shameful
tactics using the media and the Haitian Earthquake Crisis against the
landowners and merely appealed to the public's emotion on the issue
simply making them out to be the bad guys in the media if they continued
to fight it. "Oh what bad people these greedy landowners must be to try
to take away the meteorite from the public, and the money from those in
need in Haiti." Oh my...

They didn't drop the case because "the doctors were right". They dropped
it because of the negative press and smear campaign played out in the
media by the Doctors and the Smithsonian. Simple as that.

This "Case" was never decided on legally in a court. Therefore the issue
is still open and *unresolved* with regard to the legal ownership of
meteorites falling on private property.

Period.

Regards,
Eric



On 7/15/2011 7:41 PM, JoshuaTreeMuseum wrote:
> You find it , it's yours!:
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