On Sat, 20 May 2006 13:11:58 +0100, you wrote: >In the book of R. Norton, "rocks from space" it is described how Bob Haag >"extracted" from an african (synonimous of stupid, between the lines) >country, a valuable stone. >That was done after a psychological manoeuver, to take it from the hands of >the museum curator - he exchanged it for the equivalent of the colored >glass beads of "diplomatic procedures" with natives, of other times, ie for >volumous rubish.
On this point at least you aren't alone. I saw that event, as described in the book, as a dishonest transaction too. Also, IIRC, wasn't there an even discribed where he lied to customs to get that (or some other meteorite) out of country? ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
