ojunk (Mike Weeks) wrote in
:

From: Orval Fairbairn
Date: 3/27/2004 20:46 Pacific Standard Time

In article ,
362436 (Ron) wrote:

The Navy did the same thing too after some people pulled some planes
WW2 aircraft out of the gulf of mexico.

Seems rather silly to me.


Ron
Tanker 65, C-54E (DC-4)


As the saying goes, "The Navy is 200 years of tradition unhampered by
progress."

I think its just that the USG never gives up "anything" unless it
states so in very specific language. This isn't the first time it's
taken such action, as noted above.

MW


Yes,it's cheaper (and easier)to let someone else do the
extraction/restoration,then confiscate it.
Then charge them for messing with their abandoned property.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik-at-kua.net