[meteorite-list] Lunar/Meteorite Samples Stolen from Car in Virginia

[Darren Garrison]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:48:56 -0500, "Pete Pete" <rsvp321 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>Likely tossed in a garbage bin somewhere, worthless gravel to the typical 
>pea-brained criminal thinking he scored a laptop.

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.  If I were in Virginia Beach, I'd be doing some serious dumpster
diving!

I found it odd that they had to add the line "The samples pose no risk to the public".  Did the
writer have to have it explained to him that meteorites/lunar samples aren't made from friggin'
plutonium, and decided he needed to pass that reassurance along?