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07/13/2004 at 9:13 pm #172132407/14/2004 at 12:16 am #1747308
Linus, you lead a privileged life!
07/14/2004 at 1:14 am #1747309Imagine my surprise when my sister called me on the cell phone giggling that she was yet again detained. LOL. What can I say Linus you are a cop magnet…Barney never knew what hit him. Drive on.
07/14/2004 at 3:57 am #1747310I can picture the whole incident in my mind as I remember that cache very well.
I hope that no members of law enforcement are going to be offended by the slang terms we might use for them sometimes. Perhaps our next WGA member might be the officer that joined you in your hunt for the cache.
Something to think about…..
07/14/2004 at 4:37 am #1747311quote:
Originally posted by Cathunter:
I hope that no members of law enforcement are going to be offended by the slang terms we might use for them sometimes. Perhaps our next WGA member might be the officer that joined you in your hunt for the cache.Something to think about…..
Or maybe there is a current officer in your midst…. Papa Fishcacher is a deputy here in our county. He wasn’t terribly offended by the slang at all. He does however hope all of you realize that any officer that stops anyone any day is just doing his job protecting the citizens, and trying to come home alive to his family each night.
By the way, Papa Fishcacher did LOL at your story! Especially the “You expect me to believe…” part!!!
I was glad to hear you had a nice officer encounter that day! I hope we find him around here sometime soon!!!
~Mama Fishcacher
07/15/2004 at 12:43 pm #1747312Judging by what I heard on the park radio Wednesday night I think a team at Glow in the Dark ran into a “Ranger Rick” instead of a Barney Fiffe, actually a Ranger Cathy to be specific.
I knew something was up when I heard her come over the park radio frequency and ask if anyone knew what urban “geo-kaking” was. She said people with flashlights were looking for external markers. I figured she must be at Minooka.07/16/2004 at 4:11 am #1747313quote:
Originally posted by RangerBoy:
I heard her come over the park radio frequency and ask if anyone knew what urban “geo-kaking” was.
LOLOLOL!!!! “geo-kaking”!!!!!!! Sounds like geocaching after drinking too much, lololol.
07/18/2004 at 6:53 pm #1747314quote:
Originally posted by RangerBoy:
Judging by what I heard on the park radio Wednesday night…when I heard her come over the park radio frequency…I figured she must be at Minooka.
Frequency? You meant “talk group”, right? Or do some of the Waukesha parks use radios not on WCTRS? One thing I’ve wondered about it sounds like not only is there no obvious distinction of where someone talking on the parks TG is, there is no obvious distinction of individual! (Multiple units use the same unit number). There’s got to be a better way…
Steve K (prefers his scanner to most radio stations)
07/18/2004 at 8:32 pm #1747315The group Ranger Boy is referring to is my geocaching class that I took to Glow In The Dark on Wednesday night. We squeaked in so we had just enough time to complete the cache before closing time. We all drove in without stopping at the self pay parking station, which came around to bite us in the rear later. We finished the cache and got back to our cars at 10pm and found envelopes on our cars thinking we all got tickets. Ranger Cathy swung by and had to explain that they are “not tickets”, they were just envelopes for us to pay for parking, which we all gladly took care of right away.
She was such an awesome park ranger. We had to explain to her what geocaching was and one of my participants gave her a handout for beginners to explain what is was. She told us that she thought we were a group of teenagers coming back to do some other activity. She was shootin’ the breeze with us and told us some great park stories on other activity that goes on in the park, which I’ll tell you to use your imagination on. She also emphasized to us that we can save some money by getting a park sticker (way to promote your parks!). We all had a blast. It could’ve been worse.
07/19/2004 at 2:11 am #1747316quote:
Originally posted by Cathunter:
I hope that no members of law enforcement are going to be offended by the slang terms we might use for them sometimes. Perhaps our next WGA member might be the officer that joined you in your hunt for the cache.Something to think about…..
Not something you want to call any of us up here. Back in the day when there were no minimun training requirements you would get a lot of “Barney Fife” type officers. Not true anymore.
Paul
PWB – Comet Cache Chasers http://www.cachechasers.com[This message has been edited by pwb (edited 07-18-2004).]
07/19/2004 at 4:28 am #1747317quote:
Originally posted by skarolek:
Frequency? You meant “talk group”, right? One thing I’ve wondered about it sounds like not only is there no obvious distinction of where someone talking on the parks TG is, there is no obvious distinction of individual
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You are right when you say talk groups (TG). Each park has a TG in addition there is a ranger TG. Each park has a number designation, so any unit at that park uses the same number, such as 929, and adds an A or B to it or other designation such as “lifeguard” or “launch”. Naga-Waukee’s TG is especially busy on weekends in the summer with boat launch traffic. In the old days when the whole park system had one frequency we all had to listen to their endless chatter!
If you would like to know the park numbers email me, but I suspect you already might have it figured out from a scanner website.
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