Hoopy Frood

I will make one reply to this thread. 1. thanks for making family friendly. <non-family friendly comment removed by moderator.> 2. To keystone approver, sorry if I dont fit the mold of your perfect geocacher. This isnt a private sport. Ya takes what ya gets. Your so concerned about the sport, how about suggesting that it be mandatory that all cache pages list times of access. That would do more for the sport than chastising me. I know some caches do this voluntarily. Make it manditory. Nice sarcasm. 3. To Hart climbs and the only sensible post. I never said there shouldnt be rules and times.. My main beef is that these Police only target people that they can catch from there cars. So many times I have seen ATVs,drinking people drinking on ATVs and illegal bicylers riding in our parks but quess what it was in the daylight so I guess it was OK. And finally we never gave the park ranger any hassle. Just accepted our tickets like we should. In closing Ive learned my lesson...never buck 'The Man'. Done!

If you don't like personal commentary please leave now. I'm about to rant. This is to Mr. Waldron of our local county park service. Now, Im a big boy and know that certain parks/areas are off limits after certain times. I choose to hike/geocache after hours because of time restrictions like work and obligations like paying taxes. And I have to take responsibility for those actions. If only so many rules and restrictions could be placed on the real threats to this Nation. This is the second time we as a team have been issued tickets for being in a park after hours. Both times we were never caught in said park and were in fact on public roads. We tried to fight the first offense only to be beaten down by the local court. The above mentioned rent a cop could have just issued a warning. No he chose go ahead and issue a ticket for loitering. Wow...I feel so much safer knowing that while Im being ticketed, illegal ATV's and Bicyclers are using our parks for destructive reasons. How would these rangers? paid by our tax money know anything about Illegal ATVs/Bikes? they wouldnt because I doubt.. and have never seen one of these rangers out of there vehicles. I submit that if our borders guards could be taught how to patrol our borders as well as these park rangers then our Great Nation would be much more secure. As for our Local Park Rangers I Commend You. Our parks are so much safer with likes of us off the trails. The hell with the beer drinking,ATV riding,illegal bike riders. What you cant see from the window of your nice little SUV cant hurt us right? I believe I will rethink a hobby were so much trouble can be had from hiking. Maybe a hobby like drinkin in the bar would be less stressful. END OF RANT Edited to be family-friendly.