Canada: “Yukon man seeks $12M for space rock damage”

“A Yukon mining prospector claims federal geologists stole a priceless piece of meteorite he found in the 1980s that contained alien organisms, but RCMP say they haven’t found any evidence to support that allegation.” [CBC]

5 Comments

  • Thank you, Overlawyered. Next time I’m charged with an offence in Canada, I know what to say.

  • The rock likely came from the mother ship. If he had claimed that as well then the Scientologist would have bid on it as well.

    Why can’t a judge just through this crap out? Much more serious issues are dumped every day.

  • The principles of comety call for hard evidence in cases like these; they certainly won’t take his word for granite. Still, if they touched him when they took the rock, he could switch to a boulder approach — maybe he can charge them with basalt and battery.

  • Doesn’t the Native Artifacts Act require return of the rock to the Martians?

  • Mark P., it may be “the principles of comety”, but some of these cases look more like the client and the lawyer studied the principles of COMEDY.
    Seems like they should be the ones between a rock and a hard place–
    or is that “IRAQ” and a hard place?