Warnings Issued About Theft of Shuttle Debris

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[Arkinsaw]

None of our business she said. I bet a court is going to say otherwise. For her attitude I hope she is the case they make an example of. $250,000 and jail time.

[mykdsmom]

E-Bay is jammed with Columbia memorabilia right now. Some of the coins etc are fetching over 1K.

MKM

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Some people may find shuttle parts for years to come. Forests, meadows, vacant lots, and pig troughs in several states may contain millions of parts. It's not like everything fell in a small area.

[Ouachita]

Dang, you're not kidding!

[InvisibleChurch]

wait until the law suits start rolling in regarding people getting 'sick' from touching these parts... libs will start to howl about what kind of experiments are going on in space that result in items being too 'poisoned' to touch

[Atlas Sneezed]

I do find the claims of "hazard" to be a bit dubious. What material (other than redioactives) retains hazardous properties after being seared through re-entry? Certainly not rocket fuel.

[twyn1]

We were stationed in Germany when a C-5 (HUGE airplane) crashed just outside the base -- a few months later, the kids and I were biking along a trail near the crash site and we found some debris from the crash, mostly little bits and pieces, but also an intact indicator dial, we picked it up and turned it in to the base, but still, it was a little "tempting" to keep something -- human nature is hard to understand at times

[eddie willers]

WOW!

But at least the guy wasn't being morbid.
He put the coin up for auction January 26.

I bet he thought he'd get $25 or so.

(Bidding started at $9.99...now over $3000)

[martin_fierro]

What kind of inbred Jerry Springer trailer trash would steal Columbia crash debris?

Oh. Never mind.

[kstewskis]

Dang, you're not kidding!

OMG, that seller had one bid @ $9.99 before today...I bet he's looking at it today thinking he hit a jackpot. Wow.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yep. I said the same thing to my wife. Pieces fell where no human eye saw them and will be found for years and decades to come.

[Ouachita]

The date caught my attention too.

Jeez, it's at $5100 now.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I hope he is a decent sort of person who will donate a large part to the sirviving families.

[MadIvan]

Not a good idea to collect those parts anyway - God knows what they could be soaked in.

Regards, Ivan

[Xenalyte]

Went for just over $13K.

[DAnconia55]

Ended over $10,000.

[LibKill]

Ghouls are scum.

No one should profit from this disaster.

[Crusader21stCentury]

Hydrazine is extremely toxic; it is absorbable through the skin.

[eddie willers]

Final

Payment Details

Item price	US $13,101.00
United States Shipping and handling	US $5.95
Shipping insurance per item (optional)	US $1.30

[Bub]

FBI agent James Kallstrom kept a piece of TWA 800 for his personal collection but there has been no hint of fining him $250,000 or sending him to jail for 10 years.