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Adam, dude, you can piss off, To whom might I ask,
did I offer that stone for sale to? Not a single person. I have not offered it
for sale so how dare you say that I did.
Offering other "hammer stones" without affadavits?
Who the hell made you god? I don't actually know where you come off trying to
take control of everything. Oh well. Do as you please not my problem. So I see
that you feel you can offer what you like for a particular stone but everyone
else can't.
You and your terms. I never knew we called them
"hammerstones".
Just don't try to preach what you don't practice.
Mike Farmer
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 7:31
PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Park Forest
- Round Two
Mike,
I freely admitted we offered that much for a
stone in my posting called "Park Forest - The pulling of teeth". We
thought this house smasher (one of three) was still available and only offered
this much because it was a confirmed house hammer we wanted for our
collection. This bid also included everything it hit, the other half of
the picture. You were not present when we made this offer, only
afterwards. You stated to list you would never sell the specimen and now
you have offered it to two dealers for $25,000.00, a $13,000.00 profit.
You have also been offering hammer stones without affidavits from the
finders, something I would rather not get into.
All the Best,
Adam Hupe
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 7:18
PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Park
Forest - Round Two
Adam, good lord, after you and AL Lang lectured
me about paying too much, you tried to snag my stone by offering $15000 for
it 12 hours later! the Highest price offered in Park Forest. So indeed, you
did contribute to the high prices, so please don't act like you did'nt.
Mike Farmer
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 10:39
AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Park Forest
- Round Two
Dear List,
Here we go again! I am
personally glad to be home after spending five intense days in
the so-called "Urban Strewnfield". For those of you who were not
able to go you did not miss much. The weather was horrible, most of
the neighborhood was rough and the greed was amazing.
My brother, Greg arrived yesterday and met up
with Al Lang to pick up an entire bedroom that had been hammered by
one of these stones. We will reconstruct the bedroom with the
ceiling that had two holes punched in it, the venetian
blinds that were split down the center, a metal windowsill with a
huge impact crater and a mirror that was shattered, all hit by the same
meteorite that thankfully missed a boy by inches as he was sleeping.
This collection will be displayed proudly next to the Peekskill car in a
private museum. We plan on possibly displaying the collection at the
Tucson show next year if there is enough interest. We acquired
several other impacted items from all over the strewn field and will
integrate them into another interpretive display. This represents the
world's largest collection of man-made objects impacted
by meteorites. We feel it is important to preserve these
historical items for future generations to enjoy.
On another note:
Why couldn't the meteorite have landed
somewhere in a rural area?, maybe next time. I do not believe the
prices would have been so high if the stones where recovered by farmers
and ranch-hands. Word spread like wild fire in the Park Forest
neighborhood about prices being realized for stones that hit things.
These street-smart finders then played a lot of dealers and collectors in
the field for as much money as they could get and now everybody
is paying the price. You can blame dealers who lacked the
patience to negotiate better prices and manage the situation in a
professional manner for these high prices. Instead money was
thrown around exciting the neighborhood into a feeding frenzy.
I owned up to my part in this whole thing with a post called "Park
Forest - the pulling of teeth". If I contributed in anyway to the
high prices, I apologize. I admit there were a few times when
we paid more than we should have.
Wishing everybody well,
Adam Hupe
IMCA 2185
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