i m used to fixing things, and this was unfixable. it was so stupid. once you start to understand the indictments, basically this is what they said. pretend we re in wyoming and we re standing in the middle of the prairie and let s assume for a moment that the fence is in the right place. you re standing on this side of the fence, the government says, right over there, on the other side of the fence, is this fabulous fossil. and they re basically saying that pete and neil and bob and whoever was out there would go step over the fence, wrongly, knowingly pick up the fossil, that they re not supposed to pick up, carry it back over the fence, put it in their car. when they drive from wyoming to south dakota, they then have conducted an illegal act, which is called interstate transportation of stolen property. they get back to the institute, they would make a phone call, send a fax, maybe, to japan and say, we found the thing that we that you were looking for. do you want to buy it?
bob and i were downstairs. we were both in the prep lab. we had a buzzer on our door so that if anybody came in, it would buzz back in the prep lab, and we could go meet them in the front office. it was about 7:00 in the morning when the buzzer went off. we were met by two fbi agents with a search warrant to take sue and all records belonging to sue. they showed up expecting to seal off the building and keep anybody from going on. just wait here. we have to get pete. they sent me to get pete, and i was running. i lived in a trailer house behind the institute. the fbi s here and they are all over the place. they ve got yellow police