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

From: meteoriteguy.com <mike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 12:19:38 -0700
Message-ID: <E0D6891B-F1EC-4B6C-A666-826BD3693950_at_meteoriteguy.com>

Actuall the landowners were real jerks. They were as greedy as I have ever seen people. They threatened to sue Robert over the roof hole he salvaged from being lost forever. it is now back with them and lost forever unless they get lots of money.
Michael Farmer

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On Jul 15, 2011, at 8:28 PM, Eric Wichman <eric at meteoritesusa.com> wrote:

> 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!:
>>
>>
>> http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2011/william--mary-law-school-students-learn-about-property-law,-with-an-asteroid-twist-123.php
>>
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