[meteorite-list] More threats from Mr Gregory.

[Michael Farmer]

This is what I get from Mr Gregory, he now insults me
and my wife, and my lack of children. This is one
standup type of guy! 
Sad, what a sad comentary on the greed of someone who
thinks he owns the place. 
--- Randall Gregory <randall_gregory at yahoo.com> wrote:


> You're still here! When are you going to be at the

> embassy. I would like to be there to explain the

> damage you caused in Carancas. You don't know where

> I live and I happened to have a residence in the

> United States.Flee to this place, now that's funny.

> I love exploring SA.  I am a long distance commuter.

> I go back to the United States to visit my children.

> I just returned to Peru from a 3 month stay in at

> home.  Children, Mike are something you know

> absolutly nothing about. What's the problem, is

> little Mike not working. Or has Melody left you and

> traded up.

>    

>   Randall

> 

> Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com> wrote:

>   your information is as faulty as your judgement. 

> Advise your friends, that I have contaced the

> embassy

> and have a meeting scheduled to discuss the money

> they

> tried to extort from me. 

> What a dump, why do you live down here? What did you

> do to make you flee to this place. Most of the

> people

> were great, and I will discuss this with the list,

> but

> much more information to come. 

> Mike

> --- Randall Gregory wrote:

> 

> > Hi Mike,

> > 

> > Welcome to Peru! I knew you couldn't resist. I

> > also had a report that some Americans were

> visiting

> > the crater and I figured you were probably there.

> I

> > know that you're in Puno waiting for the trip to

> > Juliaca. No secret there. How's the altitude

> > sickness? I hope you didn't drink any water in

> > Desag. Oh, by the way, Desaguadero means "place of

> > dirty water" in Spanish. You did get vaccinations

> > for Yellow Fever, Hepatitis, and Typhoid? I sure

> > hope so. Every good meteorite hunter should.

> > 

> > Consider yourself lucky that you were not arrested

> > and thrown in jail by my friends in Desaguadero. I

> > think you'll recognize a few of your new friends.

> > Major Victor Anaya Barrientos, police chief and my

> > personal drinking buddy Sargent Enrique. 

> > 

> > You threatened to fuck me up, Mike. Remember? 

> > 

> > I could have had you arrested and held in jail on

> > various charges. But I'm not vengeful guy, more of

> a

> > peace-loving kind. 

> > 

> > I offered to end this war and you failed to

> > respond to me. I gave you the chance for us to

> work

> > together on this, yet you chose to go it alone.You

> > took my invitation as a threat. A gun in your face

> > in Columbia. Get the picture? Leave South America

> to

> > me, but work with me if you want. There a 4 more

> > falls in Peru that haven't been tapped and others

> in

> > Bolivia and Ecuador.

> > 

> > I'm enclosing some pictures to remind you of your

> > trip. You went with 2 other guys, yet I went there

> > alone. Just another day in the life of a meteorite

> > hunter, huh? Toughen up Mike! BTW, I've got a

> > little over 4,700 gms, not including the dust and

> > small pieces. But I'm only selling around 300 gms.

> > The large piece will be donated to a museum or

> other

> > scientific institution.

> > 

> > I appreciate the fact that you enlightened me

> > about meteorites 'rotting'. I'm going back to

> Desag

> > very soon to work with the local officials. I'm

> > taking mining engineers to create a plan for

> > extraction. If you want to be a part of it, I

> invite

> > you to participate. As a meteorite dealer, you can

> > also appreciate the value of what might come out

> of

> > the ground. You have a real appreciation for this

> > meteorite now and you could contribute to this

> > project, but please don't criticize these people.

> > The have there jobs and probably do them well.

> They

> > are venturing into unknown territory with little

> > information or experience.

> > 

> > 

> > Hasta La Vista, Baby! or my associate. Your

> > choice.

> > 

> > Randall

> > 

> > Michael Farmer wrote:

> > Hi everyone, I am writing from an undisclosed

> > location, but will be home tomorrow night from

> Peru.

> > 

> > Robert Ward, Moritz Karl, and myself have been in

> > Carancas for the last 4 days. When I say craphole,

> > Desaguadero is the definition that would come up

> > first! More on that later, we had to get creative

> > today to leave town as the corrupt police had us

> all

> > staked out all night, including visits to my hotel

> > room last night and at 5 am this morning demanding

> > payment for protection and permision to leave the

> > country. 

> > 

> > We toured the crater for days, bought and found

> some

> > nice material, and will post photos in a couple of

> > days. The crater is huge, the meteorite inside

> must

> > weigh in excess of 4000-5000 kilos. Compared with

> > the

> > 1700 kilogram Jilin main mass which made a crater

> > less

> > than half the size of the Carancas meteorite. 

> > Unfortunately, the government of Peru in all it´s

> > wisdom, wants the meteorite to rot in the water,

> as

> > they see dollar signs in bringing tourists to the

> > crater which in one month will be nothing more

> than

> > a

> > mudpit as the rains are about to begin. Yesterday

> we

> > had the entire village present and pumped out the

> > water from the crater, and the locals were about

> to

> > dig, then at 1 pm, the mayor decided that was

> enough

> > work for the day, and would let the crater fill

> with

> > water again, so they could start from scratch

> again

> > today! The wisdom of the local mayor really

> > impresses

> > me. He felt that 1 hour of labor yesterday was

> > sufficient, and ignored my advice that every day

> > sitting in fetid water was not doing the meteorite

> > any

> > good. 

> > All of the meteorite fragments that were blown out

> > of

> > the crater have been sold off to people, and taken

> > by

> > locals, very little is there, mostly crumbs and

> > dust.

> > We got some nice pieces, all pristine, not rusted

> > crap, and I will offer some for sale when I get

> > home. 

> > The meteorite is a high-metal chondrite, highly

> > brecciated, and most fragments have shock veins on

> > the

> > outside, where they broke apart, at first we

> thought

> > that it was strange fusion crust, then realized

> that

> > they black crust is actully shock vein where the

> > clasts seperated.

> > More later, we are tired, and have been travling

> the

> > dangerous Peruvian roads all day. 

> > I will add more to the story soon, but rest

> assured,

> > the meteorite is mostly lost/rotted away because

> the

> > people from the universities in Peru are clueless.

> > We

> > had a meeting/interrigation at police headquarters

> > for

> > some hours last night, and it seems that they know

> > more about meteorite than I do. IE, they are

> > dangerous, they are contaminated, they bring

> > diseases,

> > they kill livestock and poison the village water.

> > Thus

> > it cant be dug up!

> > 

> > Michael Farmer

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