[meteorite-list] Warning to armchair fireball chasers

[Michael Farmer]

Steve if you want to bring me
Into your every email the I can play.  Now we can both drop it tha  
would be ok
Michael

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Michael


On Jul 12, 2009, at 1:59 PM, MeteorHntr at aol.com wrote:

> Hello List,
>
> I have just had some great  off list correspondence with Dave  
> Ghessling
> over at FallingRocks.com.
>
> He,  like a gentleman, expressed off list with me a concern that I had
> mistakenly  lumped the Georgia Fireball of this year in with the  
> group of events
> that has  revealed some of the so called "armchair fireball chasers."
>
> I want to  state on the record that I was mistaken.  That it seems I  
> was
> wrong, and  that the only offers made in Georgia were by people on  
> the ground
> in Georgia and  not via others long distance.  And in no way did I  
> intend to
> implicate him  personally in any wrong doing.
>
> In fact, I want to go so far as to say  that I personally don't  
> think there
> is anything wrong with people going public  with making purchase  
> offers.
> Of course I don't think one should claim to  offer, for example,  
> $10,000 for
> the first one pound rock, unless they are indeed  willing and able  
> to follow
> through with such an offer.
>
> I know different  people have different opinions on this topic.  I  
> agree
> that those types of  public offers can create problems in the field,  
> but not
> making those public  offers can also create problems (namely, fewer  
> local
> people out  looking).
>
> I personally don't currently make those kind of offers, but I  don't  
> stand
> in judgement against people who do.
>
> My whole intent of that  post was to just let people know, when they  
> do
> talk to people, such as the  person who talked to Mike Hankey, long  
> distance
> and over the phone, and asked  him not to share his information with  
> anyone
> else... those kinds of things can  get repeated, and in the case of  
> the
> Baltimore Sun, they can make the front page  news.
>
> That's all.  My post wasn't in opposition to or in support of  chasing
> meteorites from home.
>
> I hope this clears this up.  My  apologies to Dave and to anyone  
> else that
> might have taken my comment of the  Georgia event incorrectly.
>
> I also want to thank Dave for being a stand up  guy and talking to me
> directly about this and not going behind my back and bad  mouthing  
> me to others.
> And I want to thank Dave for taking this to me  personally first  
> instead of
> taking the opportunity to post publicly something  that was so  
> easily taken
> care of privately.
>
> I appreciate gentlemen  like him in this business who act as such.
>
> Steve Arnold
> of "Meteorite  Men"
> (ha, what are you looking for this time Mike?)
>
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