Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Do You Think You Have Been to the Four Corners?

Then you my friend, are probably mistaken. The Four Corners, where Utah Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona meet has a nice marker so you can stand in four states at once. The problem is a new survey shows the marker is in the wrong spot! Guess they didn't have GPS satellites back then. The real four corners is about two and a half miles away.

There is a monument at the fake Four Corners where they charge $3 for the opportunity to be in four states at once (I wonder what happens if you commit a crime while standing in four states? Who gets jurisdiction?) I see a great opportunity for some enterprising person to build a new monument at the real boundary and charge even more money! Capitalism at work!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a great opportunity for a second story lawyer (office the stairs) to file a class action suite for fraud on behalf of all the people that paid the $3.

Anonymous said...

I heard that the 'plaque' that shows the geographical center of the continental US is in the wrong spot. It actually is in a field nearby somewhere.

Lizardmom said...

now if I can go downstairs and forget what I went down there for, I'm sure somebody could go where they thought they should and forget exactly where to go... I get lost all the time, my train derails frequently!

OrbsCorbs said...

I think there's a bar named Four Corners in every city in the country.

Wow, I could see where GPS technology could start up all sorts of border and property line disputes.

hale-bopp said...

You know logjam, I was there as a child and now feel traumatized that I was in the wrong place now that you mention it.