[SGVLUG] OT - super rich paranoids kill balloonists w lawsuits

[matti]

wow, this is a crazy story...

"Hot air balloon businesses had thrived in the Coachella Valley for decades. Then came new neighbors on an 80-acre property, who began filing lawsuits. Lots of them."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-balloons-20110817,0,1840808,full.story

and
"Who is JCM Farming and what are they doing?"
http://www.mydesert.com/article/20110130/NEWS01/110130002/Who-JCM-Farming-what-they-doing-

..
Another patent refers to “methods and compositions for improving plant growth.”

The patent application refers to “spore-forming microorganisms, present in soil, plants and other forms of organic matter, (that) survive excessive heat of a fire within soil or carbonized wood.” The microorganisms are purported to enhance plant growth and plants’ nutritional value, and can be useful in “producing DNA-enhanced plants which may be consumed by human individuals for enhancing human DNA.”

wow, very cool crazy sci-fi stuff...

got me wondering a bit more about this story...
so google maps:

33.653548,-116.223378

wow.. multiple fences, probably electrified, guard dogs,
gun towers, moats,.. ( did you find a way in yet?? )

now I am thinking of the evil super villians from james bond movies... 

now I am just wanting to fly one of those defcon/blackhat spy drones
around that valley ...

funny how crazy people can get sooo much $$$.. man
I should have been born crazier!!!