[meteorite-list] meteorite news -2 arrested update (Dude-- Where's My Car edition)

[Mike Gilmer]

Why not take a 12-gauge shotgun and shoot the image of our hobby?  It
would have the same effect.

I'll wait to hear Mike and Sonny's side of the story before I pass
judgement, but unless it's a good explanation - they have both lost my
respect and business.

MikeG


On 4/2/09, Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net> wrote:

> Finally, a detailed account:

>

> http://www.wjbf.com/jbf/news/crime/article/meteorite_hunters_jailed_in_burke_county_for_trespassing/12297/

>

> The True Citizen | Liz Billups

> Published: April 1, 2009

>

> Burke County, GA—According to “The True Citizen,“ two Southwestern meteorite

> hunters found fame they weren’t searching for.

>

> Just one week after Las Vegas meteorite hunter Ralph “Sonny” Clary, Jr. was

> interviewed by WJBF News Channel 6, he and Arizona hunter, Michael William

> Miller, were arrested for criminal trespass in Burke County.

>

> According to officers, the pair was searching for debris from the big March

> 20th

> meteorite sighting, when they zeroed in on a farm in the northern portion of

> the

> county, without permission.

>

> “They went from famous to infamous,” one ranger said, after the pair was

> carted

> off to jail.

>

> The landowner called authorities, Monday morning, when she saw a strange Kia

> Rio

> parked on her property, and suspected poachers. DNR rangers say they were

> thrown

> off by the tiny white compact car, which is not popular among turkey

> hunters,

> but backed the landowner’s suspicions when they saw camouflage clothing

> inside.

>

> After an unproductive search in the nearby woods, the landowner had the Kia

> towed.

>

> The landowner and meteorite hunters came face to face when they came out of

> the

> woods and found their car missing. They knocked on her door for help; she

> ordered them to stay put, then both parties began simultaneously calling the

> cops.

>

> Clary and Miller told officers they hadn’t damaged anything and just wanted

> to

> pay the towing bill, and be on their way. The landowner said the men were

> profiteering on her property, without permission, and that she wanted them

> prosecuted “to the fullest extent.”

>

> The suspects are scheduled to appear in state court, Wednesday morning.

>

> Would-be criminals should probably take heed. Last October, the same

> homeowner,

> at age 66, held two burglars face-down in the dirt with her pistol while she

> waited for deputies to come arrest them.

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Michael Gilmer (Louisiana, USA)
Member of the Meteoritical Society.
Member of the Bayou Region Stargazers Network.
Websites - http://www.galactic-stone.com and http://www.glassthrower.com
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