[meteorite-list] Meteorite prospection forbidden in Algeria

[Darren Garrison]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:13:57 +0100 (CET), Pelé Pierre-Marie <pierremariepele at yahoo.fr> wrote:

>I read today an article (see following link, in french
>: http://www.liberte-algerie.com/edit.php?id=35914).
>Algeria police has been trained to recognize
>meteorites and are forbidding meteorite hunting on
>their territory. Prospecting will lead to arrest and
>jail.
>
>I'm afraid this kind of things will be applied to
>other northern Africa countries sooner or later...

No worries.  I'm sure that patrolling large, open, desert borders for meteorte theives will be just
as effective as patrolling the large, open, desert borders in the Middle East for terrorists and
patrolling the large, open, desert borders in the US for illegal immigrants.

In other words, a silly joke.