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If I'd have been part of the EMS crew that pulled up to help you and seen the Jeep, the first words out of my mouth would have been "Ohhhhhh C**P" Usually when we extricate someone from a wreck that bad, it's not with good results. I'm also happy to see that you're relatively ok and will heal nicely. You're dang lucky!

What a fantastic oxymoron! Common sense and government! Good one!

Dern patients!

No, we don't have gpsr's in all our units. We've got 2 ambulances. If I have to request that Theda Star come to me, dispatch has all the coords already in a book and tell their dispatch where to meet us. BUT like I said earlier, the chief was extremely impressed with the work I did on the one gpsr they have and will be buying more to put in the police cars. Often the officers are our liasions for calling the helicopter. I'm too busy to have my gpsr in my hand telling someone where to go. I'd rather be working on the patient. But like I said I carry mine with me everywhere, so if one of our officers needs it, it's in the cab of the ambulance. Now, if I'm not one of two emt's responding and respond to be an extra set of hands, then yeah I'll whip the puppy out if they need the helicopter.

I use mine for coords for helicopter pick ups aslo. I recently got posession of our police departments garmin and updated the software on it and then entered all the helicopter coords along with other coords that they find useful. The chief was impressed and from now on I'm in charge of the gpsr's that they use . (they're buying more whooopie!)

I had that happen to me and I reported it to PAYPAL's TOS dept. Turned out it was a scam also... it looked real, it had the link, yadda yadda yadda, but I was concerned. PAYPAL doesn't mind if you "think" something might be 'phishy' and will work with you if it's not. I'm glad you didn't enter your credit card info. It will cost you $$$ if ya do! I just read recently in Elkhrt Truth website of Elkhart, IN where this happened to a lady and it cost her app $600.

I agree with what Sparky says, and not just cuz you'd get me if you dialed 911. Well you wouldn't anyways because I'm not in the timber rattler area . P.S. On a different note, Sparky I love your home page!

While I wouldn't call what I leave my "signature" items I've been leaving Breast Cancer Awareness pins in caches I go to. My mother has breast cancer (which has come back after a few months remission) and it's sort of my tribute to her. She got interested in geo-caching the same time I did but can't cache because of her health. Other things I've left are organ donor pins and other pins I collect because of my being an EMT. I'm also good about leaving batteries and I like those little pin on compasses because they help in heavy leaf cover. It all depends on who's with me (meaning my children) on what we take from a cache. If I have my oldest (14) it's usually nothing unless there's a Where's George Bill. If it's my 7 yo though, if there's a bouncy ball in the cache, it's hers! She's a big collector of the dang things. When I've cached by myself I have taken stuff, like a euro; and when my gf came with me one time we hit pay dirt and found a bookcrossing book (I took it) and she found a Fuzzy Zeller card (she's a huge Packers fan, *shrug*). Those were seperate caches though. Recently I went caching and there was really nothing to take, a ciggy, a lighter, matches and some mctoys. There was a cool Boy Scout patch but I didn't want to take it because I was worried about the next cacher. So we left a pin and off put it back where we found it and off we went. I contacted the owner about it because I know him and low and behold he thinks it's being used for some kids contraband! My oldest daughter said we should have cleaned it out but I wasn't comfortable with that idea. Also where the cache was placed is not the place it's supposed to be hidden! And the cache owner can't reach it. So we'll be accompaning him soon to help him clean it out and replace all the good stuff. Boy did I ever feel guilty, lol. Lisa V EMT B-IV EMS, we don't save your life we just prolong your miserable existance.

I'd go with fox also. I see one every time I go home from work at around midnight. And aside from the poor baby's tail, that one looks like my buddy who waves good bye to me on evenings when I work. Ok, so he doesn't wave. But I do see him all the time. Lisa V EMT B-IV EMS: We don't save your life, we just prolong your miserable existence.

Beating them senseless is too good for them. No, something with more flare should be done to them. Something inventive and unique. Having them give a seminar to recently incarcerated gang members on the sublties of table manners and what they represent would be better. While dressed in a thong made of chicken feathers and platform heels. Lisa V EMT B-IV EMS: We don't save your life we just prolong your miserable existance.

First I'm glad I am hundreds of miles AWAY from these boneheads (please feel free to edit that word for your own STRONGER word I did this for the whole keeping this a family site thing) These guys are immature baffoons. How many of you believe they all live at home with their mommies? Somehow I would guess that they do. I agree about with the post about them not only being a threat to geocaching but to humankind as well. This is scary, if they're doing this to caches what else are they doing to things and small animals? Second, omg am I going to get googled? Will they trace my ip addy? Well I'm at work today so neener neener! You'll trace it back to the EMS room at Menominee Tribal Clinic. I wish that some of the links weren't broken or "down" I'd have loved to see it all, or maybe not. Mopar, man, YOU ROCK. I like it when people recognize injustice and start pointing it out. GeoHo is one lucky lady to have ya. Lisa V EMT B-IV

I just went caching today and found my first cache on my list. (I had 3 picked out today) I had been to that cache last year and had my little one with me and didn't find it, of course a whiney kid will sort of cut your seeking short. I never logged it as a dnf because I vowed I'd be back and I was really new. So FINALLY today I got a chance to get back and found it with no problem. (No little kid either, just my teenager who's got a nose for this) Woohoo got to log it as a find. That's a good thing in my book, makes me feel good about myself. Then on to the second cache. We got within 40 or so feet of it but were running away because in my haste to leave to get to these caches I sort of forgot my bug spray. I'm not going to log this as a dnf because I'm going back to that dadgum spot covered in deet with my clothes washed in deet LOL. I didn't get close enough to really search because we were getting light headed from the blood loss and the mosquitos were getting really fat and happy. Besides sometimes when you go back to a cache you get to start with a fresh perspective. I'll make sure to make a note that I'd been there before but was turned away. I think that's only fair. I have, by the way, logged dnf's before but I really had searched for the cache too. And now that I'm not such a newbie, I'm really get the hang of this. Also it pays to take the 14 yo teenager (read cache blood-hound!!) with me. She's got a knack for it. 'Course it could be that she's a teenager and does the EXACT OPPOSITE of what I tell her, so if I think oh the cache is that way she's usually looking in the opposite direction and finds the dang thing! My personal opinion is if I searched and searched and didn't find it I'll log it as a dnf. If I didn't search that hard or had to turn back then no log, and be stubborn and keep looking til I do find it. That way I get a smiley which to me is like a GOLD STAR. LOL Lisa V, EMT Emergency Medical Services: We don't save your life, we just prolong your miserable existance!

Well, just 54166 here but thought I'd add myself to this thread altho I thought it was about Wisconsin Geo-cachers and not about yjtb's. *shrug* who knows. Lisa V EMT

I have a micro and a regular sized cache. When I placed my micro cache, I asked for the largest pill bottle the pharmacy had at a large national retailer (can I say Wally World here?). It was long enough for me to put a pencil in it, but it wasn't a new one. I also was able to put a really small notebook in there with the geo-caching page and a small pencil sharpner. It's all worked out well and it's a popular cache that has received lot's of praise. I did wrap it in cammo tape tho just to help with the "disguising".

As a fellow EMT I agree with what Ken243 says. That's some pretty sound advice. I hope everyone remembers it.

Yeah, I know this topic sounds strange, but really it has a point! So there I was coloring my hair today, when I open the box of L'Oreal Color Experte and go to get the goves out to begin the process. When low and behold, the containers the gloves come in are perfect for putting in a plastic grocery bag and put it into a cache for someone to CITO with! Each box of hair color comes with two sets of gloves, so two containers. So I guess I'm reccomending that if YOU absolutely have to color your hair, I reccomend buying the L'Oreal Color Experte, because you'll have those little containers. Now I'm trying to figure out how to get myself more before having to color my hair again. Lisa V EMT

I was in Girl Scouts all the way until Senior. Then I became a leader when I lived in Indiana. I remember my mother teaching us orienteering and our trekking all over Mt. Diablo State Park in California with our little compass' clipped to our jackets. Both my daughters are now very involved with geocaching, and of course are in Girl Scouts. I have been asked to teach geocaching to my youngest daughters Brownie Troop in the Spring.

My micro-cache, Watching the Boats Go By is in a very flat area and the bridge to it is very wide. So, yes it is wheelchair accessible. Altho right now they're working on the road up to the parking lot of the park, so you have to park a ways back. Still tho, I think you could make it over to the bridge, we just checked it out and walked through the grassy area (it's all a park) it's very flat and well maintained. So ad mine, please.

Sorry Renegade but not something a psychic would come up with. I read about this description in the paper here in Green Bay. I used to live in Goshen and still seem to think that the place described is around Bristol or Middlebury even though the authorities are checking leads. P.S. don't forget that when getting off at the county road 17 exit if you go north, you go onto a two lane road.

I work on an indian reservation in Wisconsin. I know that there are some very spiritual people in this tribe. While I'm sure that the woman DW is talking about is not of the same tribe, I also know that there are things I cannot explain up there. Dogs have an uncanny way of knowing if someone is good or bad. They sense it far before we do. Parker "knew" that this woman was not a threat to him or DW. With that said how can anyone say that she was a charleton or anything else to that matter? Parker sensed she was not a threat. I truly believe that there are people on this planet who can communicate with other beings other than humans. And once again, how do dogs "know" stuff? How does my dog know when the school bus is returning with his kids? How does he know it's Friday, when my husband returns home? And then when he doesn't return home because he's delayed, why does this dog whine and worry until he hears my husband. Usually we have to call him and hold the phone up to the dogs ear so he'll settle down. And one more, how does my dog know that a certain neighbor live behind us while another lives across the street? I think we have to just accept this for what it is. It happened.