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This one even has a gun turret!

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@RSplash40 wrote:

Still think each design needs a scuba diver, its a group of cachers getting absolutely no love or recognition…harumph…

😛 Laugh everyone, its a good thing….

The scuba diver is there he is just under the water. 😉

Kind of like the hitchhiker on a bicentennial quarter?

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I’ve got a Nintendo in my closet right now. All it needs is a new 72 pin connector (the old ones turn green and stop reading the cartridges.) I’ve been meaning to fix it, but just never got around to it. You can buy the connectors on eBay for pretty cheap. If anybody wants to give it a shot I’d be willing to let it go.

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@BakRdz wrote:

Looks a little strange with one tire mark, but it would look worse with two and the footprints stopping halfway 😯

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@RSplash40 wrote:

I’m thinking a military humvee? Anyone got one?

Humvee? That’s so 90’s. We need us an MATV or a Hemmit! 😈

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I’m fond of the Bing map myself. The bird’s eye view is very clear and has fairly recent photography.

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@terribletom wrote:

Here is another idea. A lot of CO’s have caches in areas they can’t easily get to for maintenance issues. Everyone here has personal responsibilities… a family, a job, etc… we can’t all maintain our caches as well as we would like to. Is there a maintenance group out here? I’ve gotten into the habit myself of keeping some cache repair stuff with me at all times. Camo tape, a few micro containers to replace damaged ones… just last week I replaced a badly damaged container at a cache I do not own. Why? it needed to be replaced! I was someone who could do it… I care about geocaching! I’m sure a lot of us out here do just what I did, when the opportunity is present. Many of us have replaced logs, plastic bags, cache containers… but (and here is the idea of mine) What about organizing a group of people who are dedicated to simply helping to maintain caches. I know the actual responsibility falls to the CO themselves.. but what CO out there couldn’t use some help?

Got a sickly cache? Can’t find the time to get over to it? Who ya gonna call? Here to the rescue is the Geocache Emergency Team Responders!

To … G.E.T ‘R Done! or something like that… whatever!

There is actually a program in place for this. It is located under the “Cache Rescue” link on the left of the screen 🙂

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I consider a tour to be a pre-organized Geocaching outing with 2 or more people with a goal to find a specific type of cache, be it puzzle/cemetery/ammo can, etc.. over a significant area, usually needing a vehicle (ie not a walking trail)
Not a bad thing, not a good thing, just a thing.

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I’m sure each cache highlights a different aspect of the area………..Look, a rock! Look, sand! Look, another rock! Look, more sand!

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Don’t get me wrong, I do feel that this is an issue worth discussing. I cannot play a major role for the facts that I have not hidden many puzzles, nor have I found many puzzles from the major players at the heart of the discussion.
I think what was done was wrong. I’m all for an individual finding a puzzle by any means. Not a group. If an individual does it without the coordinates, chances are they worked just as hard as solving the puzzle would have been. Just passing around and answer sheet does seem to beg the question: why bother? Especially in a group setting. Half the fun is finding the cache. In a group, one person finds it, everybody signs it. Granted, it is more of a social occasion with more people, but why not just go for a hike or a walk downtown then?
The problem with having this discussion on this forum is that not all geocachers in Wisconsin are active members of the WGA. What we say here effects only those who read it.
I do feel that the actions taken by the COs is a little drastic. I don’t know all of the info, but I can look at the numbers. Have these caches been found before? Yes. Could they be found again? Yes. Will the people involved in the ‘tour’ find them again? No. The amount of people who participated is a negligible amount compared to the total number of cachers in Wisconsin and the surrounding area. Chances are that everybody who would make the find without the solve already has. I would brush it off and enjoy the next generation of finders that comes along.

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Maybe it’s just me, but it does seem like there are a lot of posts in the few “adoption” threads that could be moved to one central thread for discussing/debating the issue.

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Ooooh….invisible paint 😯 where can I get some of that?? Could you imagine a nano sprayed with that?

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Hmm, I suppose going BOOM would be a bad thing. Never knew that tidbit of history. Makes sense with the name and all.
On a related note, how do you know all this local history stuff?

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I personally loved the design of the 2007 coin. I just joined in on the fun last year and was slightly disappointed that there wasn’t a 2009 coin. I know of a few other people that just started last year that hadn’t had a chance to buy a coin before.

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I remember hearing something about Law Enforcement Officers being able to get a full blown membership on GC.com for free. That is something that we could verify and if it holds true, we could make some official info sheets to hand out to local PDs.

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