Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting question

2003-09-13 Thread David Freeman
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:11:22 -0500 (CDT) Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting question Hello Warren and List, Warren your question about property locale ownership, brought to mind a question of my own that

Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting question

2003-09-13 Thread joseph_town
oing against big business in court, or city > hall. > Mark > - Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 3:45 PM > Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting

RE: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting question

2003-09-13 Thread joseph_town
The federal court says that anything found on a parkway, the strip of land between the sidewalk and the curb, the sidewalk itself, the street and any public property designated as such by the village will be the legal possesion of the one who has taken it. If the contents of a household are disc

RE: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting question

2003-09-13 Thread Warren Zwanka
Marcie and list,Having grown up in South Carolina and now Florida I am just familiar with the fact that if you don't have permission, then you better not be on someone's property. Even on state lands you had better have a reason for snooping around... especially with a metal detector. Either

Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting question

2003-09-13 Thread GT40dawg
Gee...This sounds like an old story that former baseball manager Billy Martin used to tell...     Randy in N.O.

Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting question

2003-09-12 Thread joseph_town
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Marcia Swanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 7:32 PM > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting question > > > > Dear Bill, Marcia, List; > > I would like to add to the thread

Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting question

2003-09-12 Thread joseph_town
David, Your ethics are beyond reproach but in an one hour old strewn field it would be such a waste to delay recovery waiting for permission to look in a K-Mart parking lot. I know I would never get a reply. This is a pretty unique situation. I doubt if anyone walked away from a fresh rock beca

Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting question

2003-09-12 Thread Tom aka James Knudson
MAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Marcia Swanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 7:32 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting question > Dear Bill, Marcia, List; > I would like to add to the thread a bit more. I found my meteorite on > publi

Re: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting question

2003-09-12 Thread David Freeman
Dear Bill, Marcia, List; I would like to add to the thread a bit more. I found my meteorite on public land. It was on a checkerboard mixed with Anadarko (company that owns the land that the Union Pacific Railroad was granted to them in 1865 to encourage RR development), there are also private

RE: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting question

2003-09-12 Thread joseph_town
Hi Marcia, Property varies so much from one juristiction to another. Public domain has been outlined by the Supreme Court in cases of lost or discarded artifacts. The FBI felt the need to set these precidents so they could dig through trash on parkways for evidence in court. I read an old threa

RE: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting question

2003-09-12 Thread Marcia Swanson
Hello Warren and List, Warren your question about property locale ownership, brought to mind a question of my own that I would appreciate an answer to, on or off-list, by yourself or other list members. I understand that when hunting on private property, you are supposed to get (written?) permissio

RE: [meteorite-list] Cold hunting question

2003-09-11 Thread Warren Zwanka
Just wondering who owns these areas you "cold hunters" are searching? Are areas like the Gold Basin and Bonneville Salt Flats publicly owned or do you make arrangements with individual land owners? WarrenJoin Excite! - http://www.excite.comThe most personalized portal on the Web!