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3K is worth another congrats! 🙂
Found it! Here’s the thread I was referring to:
http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=215376There are mentions of TB mileage issues on the geocaching.com Website forum thread. I haven’t paid much attention because I am not big into trackables but I would start digging there and you might find something.
Congrats!!! (that’s 3 exclamation points for 3K)
These discussions ALWAYS get out of hand
Looking back at this thread, there was never a time that things got “out of hand” and I don’t see many “weird” things to point at either.
First, my apologies on being so critical.
Second, thanks for the insight into what went into the decision to “extinguish” the suspicious device.
Marc, I think you missed something. I said “SHOULD have meant” not “COULD”. I was not being hypothetical or implying a solution here. I was pointing out that from the outside looking in with hindsight dialed in at 20/20 this was uncalled for.
A geocacher with over 200 finds was involved somehow with the decision to blow this thing up and spend taxpayer dollars. Perhaps I’ve read all of this wrong but if that is the case then why was this not avoided? A simple check of the park/coords and a GPS should have been all it took to confirm this one. Oh, yeah it’s hidden right where a geocache should be. Yep container looks like a typical geocache. Not all geocaches are labeled. In fact most of the one’s I’ve found (with over 800 finds) were not labeled. All of this easily determined if you have over 200 finds under your belt. Not trying to be demeaning just pointing out that this sure is interesting.
I too would have deleted the find log if I was the CO.
Another suggestion for potentially preventing this type of situation might be to describe the nature of the container in the listing. I know this won’t be possible with all caches (creative hides and what have you) but for the run of the mill container/hide types if you would mention something like “The container is one of those small water-proof “lockers” that you see used at waterparks with camo duct tape.” The news report I heard mentioned that the camo tape played a big part in the “doubt” as to what this was. It seems 2nd nature to us as we use camo duct tape all the time. Some muggles (civilians 🙂 ) probably see it as threatening or suspicious.
All in all, from the outside it looks like this was an exercise in being way too over cautious. Having someone who is a geocacher (with over 200 finds) involved in the decision should have meant this could have been avoided. For whatever reason it was not. There are lessons to be learned here regardless (as pointed out in prior posts).
Congrats “neighbor” 🙂
Thats why all caches should be magnetic nano’s.
Just kidding…
I will be setting up a new challenge cache hidden in the Appleton area as soon as I get some inspiration on a hide for it. Been working on the writeup and details for awhile.
It’s not one of these 2 ideas. However, it’s very similar to the zipcode one in that you will have to find a cache in many cities/towns/villages across Wisconsin.
It modeled after a challenge in Texas and I think it will be more fun than challenging. I am sure some may already be close to or have completed but there will be some twists in the writeup that I haven’t seen before.
It will be alphabetically challenging…
03/15/2009 at 1:01 pm in reply to: Apparently a Black Cat can swim in the Triangle of Love, Joy #1903760Love the pics in your log! Too funny! 😆 😆 😆
03/15/2009 at 2:01 am in reply to: Apparently a Black Cat can swim in the Triangle of Love, Joy #1903755Congrats!!
Congrats!
There are, or should, be certain expectations that should be met.
I agree with you there.
Don’t even get me started about cable companies…
I will be paying for my 3rd installment of the premium membership soon and I just look at it as a donation more than I am buying a service. It makes it easier to live with things like we are talking about in this thread. Now if I was paying a monthly bill (say ~17 bucks like my Netflix account) for geocaching I would expect certain things, no doubt about it.
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