WARNING

[Ray]

Cachers beware, you may be in jeopardy at six local caches.. see: http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/jun05/337252.asp

The caches affected are:
GCNX9Z Hope You’re Good
GCP6FN Granville Dog Treat Tin
GCP3PT Out Walking the Dog
GCP40T Creapy Crawly Creatures
GCP3PM MRP#3
GCP3Q1 Dog Beetle

[Ray]

All of these caches are within a quarter mile of the parking area mentioned in this news item.

It might be best to search these in a group and leave a couple of alert souls to watch the cars.

[Mama Fishcacher]

I hate this aspect of summer – when certain folks have nothing better to do than commit crimes….. Grrrr. I hope they catch them soon!

~MF

[Opossum]

I don’t have a JS account, and therefore can’t read the article, but Mole has seen a rash of break-ins where she parks for work, even the car next to her. She has this advice:

– Never upgrade your factory stereo. (That’s what they stole from the car next to her.)

– Don’t let ~anything~ lay out in the open, even if it’s not valuable. Why break in if there’s no stuff?

When in other countries I often left the doors unlocked and nothing in the vehicle. There was no need to break in, and nothing to steal. Although, I’m not sure that’s a good idea here.

Here, I take at least one (trained) dog with me. You already know I like to leave them off the leash…

If you’re one of those anti-dog people, try leaving your cat in the car. Maybe add a large-ish sticker: “Guard Cat” A spiked collar might help too.

[jthorson]

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Originally posted by Opossum:
I don’t have a JS account, and therefore can’t read the article, …

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It’s ‘free’. I signed up last night so I could email the article to the cache-mistress of some of the caches in question.

But… this morning, the Journal related junk mail started to roll in. I suspect I also put her on the ‘list’ too by emailing the article to her.

Right now I wish I didn’t have a Journal account.

[Opossum]

If you’d like to e-mail the article to dspoid at hotmail daht com I’d apprciate it. (Now you know why I don’t have a “free” JS Online account.)

[Buy_The_Tie]

That’s weird…

I read the article this morning, then when I went to look at it later, it wanted me to sign up (which I didn’t). Weird.

[Ray]

I had signed-up using an AOL account that I have since closed. JS doesn’t seem to know the difference. Immagine, sending spam to the dead letter office. I’ll bet their bit bucket is full.

[brkster]

I noticed the article as well, only after I had gone cache hunting out there on Monday. Not many other people around at that time, but I guess sick crimes like that can happen anytime. The parking lot is well out of view from any of the cache sites. We were just lucky that day, I guess.

[Crazy4]

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Originally posted by Buy_The_Tie:
That’s weird…

I read the article this morning, then when I went to look at it later, it wanted me to sign up (which I didn’t). Weird.

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jsonline put a cookie on your computer so that when you went back the second time you couldn’t read the article again without signing up. Just delete your cookies and/or tell your browser not to accept them. I had the same problem and I did this and it worked.

[Opossum]

Thanks for the cookie information–it worked.

Wow. You know the stupid thing is, if you use the logical way to stop the criminals you get sued. Say, for instance, we just let my dogs guard my truck and leave Mole’s purse in plain view. A criminal pops the window, the dogs pop the criminal, the police arrive and he’s arrested. You think another criminal is going to try breaking in?

Milwaukee could stop the problem by not being the problem.

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