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It takes after its owner, that is a darned good looking rock!!!  Alfie...
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It's a nice rock...And Grand Canyon is still there...  Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.(Khalil Gibran)
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Hi Abelle, Nice rock. I once brought a pebble back from the shore of the biggest lake in Italy. I have forgotten where I placed it though.  Lee Live today as if it is your last For tomorrow will soon be in the past
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11/11/2013 11:01 am |
But - the Grand Canyon is a hole in the ground. Seems as it there would be more concern about filling it with junk! I do understand the reasoning though and how taking pieces of our natural areas would eventually destroy them. Spiritwoman ^i^
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Hello Anne, it reminds me a similar thing when we went to Petrified Forest in AZ. I picked up some pieces of those small woods and I put them on the car when we were at the exit there's a control, they asked my husband if something to declare and he said nothing.. When we were on the road I asked him why are they controlling and he said because many people bring home pieces of Petrified woods.. OH MY, I exclaimed I got some.. he looked at me and asked where are they I show him where they were and he said do not do that anymore so I never did it no more. Maybe 6 months after that I read online some episodes that many who get pieces of the woods sent them back to Petrified Forest because: I copy this online. "Although the minimum $275 fine doesn't seem to worry a lot of people, there is one theft deterrent that has apparently been quite effective. Stolen petrified wood, they say, is cursed. Like with the tiki idol in the Hawaiian Brady Bunch episodes, bad luck comes to he who possesses it, which has prompted thousands to send the stuff back. For decades, Petrified Forest has received pilfered samples in the mail, returned by visitors who regret having stolen them. Notes included with the fragments describe lives wrought with misfortune since the rocks' theft. In the letters, filchers plead with park officials to return the pieces to their rightful place. One visitor described a piece of petrified wood he had taken more than 10 years earlier. "It was a great challenge sneaking it out of the park," he wrote. "Since that time, though, nothing in my life has gone right." Another begged, "My life has been totally destroyed since we've been back from vacation. Please put these back so my life can get back to normal! Let me start over again!" Rangers say the frequency of returns varies by season, but in the summer, they get at least one every other day. Their collection goes back decades to around the time the park was established. Usually, visitors send back pieces after only a short period, but sometimes visitors endure their misfortune for a lifetime. Just recently, according to a park ranger, one piece arrived that was stolen back in 1928". Thanks God nothing had happen to me.. I do not have them anymore. Just sharing! "The only way to have a friend is to be one."
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Should I turn myself in? This was back in the early 70s...
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