condor1

I Review in the Annual Festival category and it is very difficult to get posters to include some verifiable support for these festivals. If you go forward with this proposed new category then may I suggest including a mandatory posting requirement to provide verifiable support documentation in the form of a Web Source, Poster or New Article stating that this is an Annual Display. I can't review for the category as I already review in way to many other categories, Sorry

What the heck does this mean?? Were you (the letter writer) causing a scene or was this yet another case of law enforcement abusing their percieved, god-like, authority?? This just burns my butt. The more I hear these stories the more anti-cop I become. And NO, I have never been arrested, ever. No personal axe to grind. No I was not the letter writer...........caleb is a geocacher and waymarker in Midland Tx who got the dirty end of the stick. He was looking for a cache and a overly civic minded muggle reported him to the LEO's of Midland. Can you believe it. I have been (interviewed) by LEO's 4 times and have never had a problem like he had. Looks like its going to cost him a pretty penny for that lawyer.

One other thing is that if you look at his profile of hides you will see that he archived all 16 of his hides including an Earthcache. This guy will probably quit caching all together.

He didn't place the cache he was looking for it. I have been stopped by Law Enforcement officials 4 times. I have printed up business cards with the Geocaching Website and a brief description of what Geocaching is. Each time I have had no problems. The officers were satisfied as I did not try to make any excuses and told them straight up what I was doing. I even found the cache and showed it to them one time.

This is a general letter that was sent by a fellow Geocacher (caleb.osborn) The following is his story up to the 26th of Jan 2010. The incident took place in Midland, Texas Here is a link..... Bomb Scare in Midland, TX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fellow Geocachers On Friday, January 8th of this year, I went geocaching with my son. We had a great time and found lots of geocaches. It was about time to go home when my son asked me, “Let’s go get one more geocache, Dad.” I told him that we would. On the way there, I was pulled over by the policemen and placed in handcuffs because somebody thought that I had planted a pipe bomb at Academy Sports. I explained to them that I had been geocaching. They took me back to Academy Sports where I was interviewed by a police detective. I again explained about geocaching and after they had determined that it was not a bomb but rather a geocache, they took me back to my car. A few minutes later, they arrested me for Interference with the duties of a public servant. They took me to jail until my wife could come and bail me out. We then set about finding a lawyer to defend me. We found one; a good one. This past week, he was able to meet with the district attorney and tell her what had happened. Once the police report was filed, she immediately dismissed the charges against me under the grounds that what I had done was not a crime and did not meet the elements of the offense. That happened today, Jan. 26th. I was then able to get my gpsr, cell phone, and bond money back. The reason I write this email is to serve as both a caution and a request for aid. The caution is that this same thing could happen to you. It was not fun, and I am very grateful that it is over with. You do not want it to happen to you, trust me. My request for aid is such that we need to brainstorm and think up ways that we can help the police officers and general public know and understand more about geocaching so that this doesn’t happen again. It may be worthwhile to let businesses know about geocaches that we may have placed on their grounds if we have not done so, and when we go to search for them to let them know that we are doing such so we don’t look suspicious. I don’t know if that would work or not, but something needs to be done. I would also like to thank all those that prayed for me or thought of me during this trying time. Thank you! caleb.osborn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Can you believe this trash. Will our game suffer? Will it flourish? I guess time will tell. And had this on my watch list to find today. Guess its time to update my list for the Un-Exploded ones.

See what you think of my profile Page......... condor1 I have been doing a lot of experimenting and finally have it down pat. Contact me via my GC email link