TMT Work to Resume Says Ige!

[TomK]

Dear Opihikao,

"Now, if TMT would hire some of these criminals who are stealing cars and trucks, selling and doing ice, breaking into people's homes, etc., and make THEM clear the site with their bare hands and a shovel (figuratively speaking). They can help maintain round the clock "protection" with the DLNR and TMT Security guards (they're going up there anyway) supervising. Make them sleep up there and work early, eat, and rest. Do it again the next day until their "sentence" is pau. Everybody can help "protect" everything. CONSERVATION indeed."

You know, that is a really entertaining thought! They could also be hired as aircraft spotters, IMO a horrible job that keeps people out in the middle of a freezing night on the summit watching for aircraft so that the guide star lasers don't interfere with flights (that is a last resort by the way, there are several safeguards in place prior to that).

However, I suspect you know this is fantasy. The observatories hire reliable, honest and hard working people. Their job is not to rehabilitate criminals, and the last thing I need to worry about is what my staff are up to. I trust them implicitly, not sure I could do that with the people you mention. If there's one thing I adore about the people I work with, it's their honesty and commitment to doing all they can to make discoveries possible. Just one bad apple can make that impossible.

I do understand your idea though, it's a noble one.

Anyway, that's probably it from me for a while, it's back off to the mainland to explain to Pam who my "dear friend" is! []