[gilldorAFK]

No offense taken. I just didn’t want people thinking that I trying to be one-sided because I wasn’t. I love geocaching, like I said I am new to geocaching, we’ve only found three caches. I am not a member of the WGA because I am still getting into it, I found this website in one of the comments on the Press Gazette website and thought it was interesting. I would love to help out with more public awareness. Green Bay is broken up into diff’t municipalities, so I am not sure where to start with Allouez, Bellevue, the City of GB, etc. But if you want to talk to someone at Ashwaubenon, I would suggest maybe emailing Commander VerVaeren. He does alot of the public relations, information, all that kinds of stuff. Sometimes all it takes is a department-wide email to officers to let them know what geocaching is, how to access the geocaching website and who knows…maybe add some more members! 🙂 Glad to hear you haven’t completely abandoned, TKKS, in fact my gf and I were just talking today about how frustrated we were about not finding High and Lois…every time we drive by the park we think about it. We were sad to see it archived 🙁

[gilldorAFK]

@CodeJunkie wrote:

@gilldorAFK wrote:

“They should have learned…”? Who’s they? Those of us that weren’t there?

I never said they should have learned so idk what you are referring to. I’m only one employee there. I can’t speak for all of my… what you call “organization.” I did my part in notifying the investigator as to what geocaching is, and confirming that there is one in the area of Cormier School. Whether or not they choose to hear me out is up to them. I sympathize for Todd and TKKS because I can see where public geocaching should be an acceptable practice. Could the authorities done more to investigate? Probably. You can’t control the public unfortunately. But sometimes you get nosy people who see something out of the ordinary and have to call it in. I can’t explain geocaching to 45+ police officers for one dept. Hopefully this incident opens up the area to what geocaching is so they don’t call in stuff like this and use up tax-paying resources.

[gilldorAFK]

How nice that everyone assumes the local law enforcement doesn’t know anything about geocaching… I actually work for Ashwaubenon Public Safety and just started geocaching in the last year. Of course it was my scheduled day off on the day of the incident, but after I read it in the paper, I did email the Lt and explained how it works. Pretty unfortunate that everyone is archiving their caches in the area (we haven’t had a chance to find them all yet), but sadly I am not surprised that certain neighborhoods call it in as “suspicious activity.” 🙁

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