Who got the rocks?

[Celebration]

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=98085&ran=227191

That’s what police are asking after someone broke into a car near Oceana Naval Air Station earlier this week and took some rare specimens from the moon.

Police said the theft was reported at 3:24 a.m. Tuesday at a home on Garcia Drive. The car belongs to a NASA instructor.

NASA had entrusted the stolen rocks to contracted instructors. The specimens were sealed within two plastic disks labeled “meteorite sample” and “lunar sample,” said police spokeswoman Margie Long . They were taken along with the silver briefcase they were in.

The rocks – grayish lumps – are not dangerous, but they are expensive. Lunar rocks are worth 10 times their weight in the highest-quality diamonds.

[Rick Myers]

1. Check E-bay!!!

That's a wild story. Obviously they can't be sold in the open anywhere... The perp probably doesn't know what he (or she's) got!

[htuttle]

2. Either they didn't know what they were stealing...

...or they probably had a very rich, eccentric buyer lined up ahead of time.

[Henny Penny]

3. I think they might get a clue from...

"The specimens were sealed within two plastic disks labeled “meteorite sample” and “lunar sample,” said police spokeswoman Margie Long ."

Lets hope they don't get the labels mixed up!

[Jim__]

4. Out of curiosity ...

Does anyone know how they set the value on the rocks? Is it based on what they think the rocks could bring in an auction? Or, maybe, on what it would cost to replace them?

[mainegreen]

5. They left these in car?

Retards.