lovetocachewithkids Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 As we have all seen on the disks, it says $250 fine for tampering witht he mark. So I have wondered, obviously $250 isn't much to us today, so what was it to them in say 1912? (bare with me, not the best mathmatician), although I did find a conversion. 4 cents on the dollar in 1912, so that would roughly be $1,500 to us today. Quote Link to comment
+Black Dog Trackers Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 Yes, $250 just isn't much anymore for such damage. Here is another post about this with a link in the next post to some previous discusison on it. Quote Link to comment
tosborn Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 See the article by Jerry Penry in American Surveyor: http://www.amerisurv.com/content/view/4318/136/ Quote Link to comment
NGS Surveyor Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 Adjusting for inflation, the value in the year 2007 for the 1909 amount of $250 is $5702.04! (From an on-line inflation calculator.) GeorgeL NGS Quote Link to comment
+GEO*Trailblazer 1 Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 Does that mean it applies to benchmarks as well as everything else? I would hope so. If it is malicious it could be treble damages. That would be more like it. $15,000.00 fine and imprisonment that would deter many. Quote Link to comment
+seventhings Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 (edited) The financial impact of tampering is the least of our problems! Little known fact but, these geodetic control point things also serve to affix the mud world through the intervening fabric of the geoid to the round, hard spheroid underneath. If you mess with enough of these anchor points, the solar wind will start to rip the surface of the Earth right off. Then, the resulting imbalance will cause the whole thing to roll off the back of the large turtle that's holding us up. It goes downhill (literally) from there. W Edited in vain attempt to approximate Standard English Edited July 18, 2008 by seventhings Quote Link to comment
Bill93 Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 That's an important reminder, Will. I vaguely recall on one of the old threads someone said that although it is rare for anyone to be criminally charged, there was a case of a contractor who willfully destroyed an important station (HARN?) who had to pay something on the order of $10-15K to have it reestablished. Quote Link to comment
+Mega Scooter Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 Portland OR must be an inexpensive city for vandals. $50.00? Quote Link to comment
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