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10/13/2006 at 1:15 pm #1765549
On our honeymoon we stumbled upon two in Delaware. They’ll be finding nice Central Wisconsin homes in the next couple weeks. Come get your DeLorme pages!
10/13/2006 at 2:47 pm #1765550@dls64 wrote:
I saw one person who picked up 6 in one day (plus coins and TBs) and has had them for 3 weeks or more.
Same person still has all of them. Some since 8-19.
10/13/2006 at 5:25 pm #1765551Whats the point of holding on to them? Do you think they are so they have a better chance at winning the contest? The less of them out there, the less people can enter… like me. 👿
10/13/2006 at 8:00 pm #1765552Unfortunately, there are some people who will COLLECT anything, even things that don’t belong to them. There are a lot of words that would describe people like that, but the nicest is THIEVES! The Jeeps are especially bad, because they don’t actually belong to a person (they belong to Daimler-Chrysler, I think), so some people think its ok to steal from a corporation when they wouldn’t steal from a person.
Now, quit whining and go get the Jeep out of Clue:TA.
10/13/2006 at 9:16 pm #1765553OK….from the prospective of a person who seems to hold on to bugs/coins longer than the 2 week “limit”….many of us have LIVES outside of caching don’t get a chance to go out caching every day or even every weekend. I have a full time job and a two-year old which demand a lot of my time, as I am sure others out there have similar situations. Sometimes you can cache a whole weekend and never find a cache suitable (or large enough) to put a bug into. All of these things make moving bugs along difficult, but does NOT necessarily make some one a “collector”. I don’t want to keep these things, I simply want to find a good place to put them.
With the Jeeps, in order to enter the contest you have to submit a picture with a theme and that can take time to come up with.
Please consider giving some one longer than a few weeks before you label the a “collector” and banish them to the corner.
10/13/2006 at 10:49 pm #1765554I disagree with GOJeepers. More than a couple weeks! I have never seen a TB with a goal of sitting in someone’s house. If you can’t make sure that you will place the TB in another cache within a week, you shouldn’t take any. Why can’t you place the TB in a regular sized cache you have already done near your house?
10/13/2006 at 11:47 pm #1765555We like to collect Jeeps, but we try and only keep them long enough to take the goal photo, and then move them on…
Just picked up another last night – and passed another one on!
Its fun to seek them out and grab them, but these are often held a little longer than most TB’s as the ‘grabbers’ need a little time to think of an excellent “Goal” photo.
10/14/2006 at 4:10 am #1765556I think maybe GOjeepers may not understand that we were speaking of people who had many more than ONE jeep for a FEW weeks.
I understand completly that it takes time to get a shot, I love photography (see my WGA album) and know it takes time to get the right shot. But keeping multiple Jeeps for long periods does not give other people the chance to use them.
Thanks for the heads up on the Jeep in Clue. It’s been a while since we’ve been there. I’ve got a busy weekend but maybe I can get to it before it’s gone. Starting the BoB series this weekend. O down and 99 to go!
10/15/2006 at 5:09 am #1765557I don’t mind if it takes a little longer to place a TB or post a log for a jeep but when you brag about finding 6 Green Jeeps in one day and then still have them after 2 months that kind of ticks me off.
10/15/2006 at 12:32 pm #1765558The jeeps were released in August and a score of them arrived at the WGA picnic. While Trudy & I were there, we did not see any of them. We have yet to see or touch a green jeep.
I believe that the jeep horders may be thinking along these lines:
The August goal is DISCOVERY, send a picture of me discovering a bunch of green jeeps.
The September goal is FREEDOM, tell the world that I have the freedom to keep these jeeps as long as I like.
The October goal is ADVENTURE, look at the adventure in dodging my fellow cachers on the trail to evade the issue of holding the jeeps too long.
The November goal is CAMARADERIE I am going to get a picture of me and all the friends I have made by holding these jeeps. Look how much film I have saved.
The December goal is HERITAGE, won’t my children and grandchildren be proud of me for the way I took the fun out of the game for dozens on my fellow geocachers.
In January it will be too late to enter the contest anyway.
In Febrauary their tempers will cool
In March everybody will have forgotten the jeeps
In April I will do my taxes
In May I can dump all these jeeps at the camp out.
10/15/2006 at 7:21 pm #1765559Yeah, thats excessive –
But, hanging on a little longer when you are a ‘casual jeeper’ is reasonable.
10/15/2006 at 9:07 pm #1765560@Trudy & the beast wrote:
The jeeps were released in August and a score of them arrived at the WGA picnic. While Trudy & I were there, we did not see any of them. We have yet to see or touch a green jeep.
I believe that the jeep horders may be thinking along these lines:
The August goal is DISCOVERY, send a picture of me discovering a bunch of green jeeps.
The September goal is FREEDOM, tell the world that I have the freedom to keep these jeeps as long as I like.
The October goal is ADVENTURE, look at the adventure in dodging my fellow cachers on the trail to evade the issue of holding the jeeps too long.
The November goal is CAMARADERIE I am going to get a picture of me and all the friends I have made by holding these jeeps. Look how much film I have saved.
The December goal is HERITAGE, won’t my children and grandchildren be proud of me for the way I took the fun out of the game for dozens on my fellow geocachers.
In January it will be too late to enter the contest anyway.
In Febrauary their tempers will cool
In March everybody will have forgotten the jeeps
In April I will do my taxes
In May I can dump all these jeeps at the camp out.
😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
10/15/2006 at 9:08 pm #1765561And since I’m still laughing, here is one more! 😆
10/15/2006 at 9:10 pm #1765562@Trudy & the beast wrote:
The jeeps were released in August and a score of them arrived at the WGA picnic. While Trudy & I were there, we did not see any of them. We have yet to see or touch a green jeep.
I believe that the jeep horders may be thinking along these lines:
The August goal is DISCOVERY, send a picture of me discovering a bunch of green jeeps.
The September goal is FREEDOM, tell the world that I have the freedom to keep these jeeps as long as I like.
The October goal is ADVENTURE, look at the adventure in dodging my fellow cachers on the trail to evade the issue of holding the jeeps too long.
The November goal is CAMARADERIE I am going to get a picture of me and all the friends I have made by holding these jeeps. Look how much film I have saved.
The December goal is HERITAGE, won’t my children and grandchildren be proud of me for the way I took the fun out of the game for dozens on my fellow geocachers.
In January it will be too late to enter the contest anyway.
In Febrauary their tempers will cool
In March everybody will have forgotten the jeeps
In April I will do my taxes
In May I can dump all these jeeps at the camp out.
In June, the blue Jeeps will be released.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
10/16/2006 at 1:31 pm #1765563We dropped one in the Door County Challenge this weekend, so another one is floating in Wisconsin. Got picked up by a newbie the next day before I could even get home to log and they grabbed it away. All those precious miles… 😥 . One more to drop off.
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