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My brothe Millerdude lives in Vegas and he has done like 223 in one day or half a day maybe something like that in a few hours on the E.T. Hway. He plans on getting me out there this summer when I go visit him to try to break his record and definatly bust mine of 105 caches in 7.75 hrs in Colorado. I asked him if he planned on killing me on such a power run cause I loose fun after 40. Congrats to all the record busters and happy caching

I have the "Texas Spirit Quest " Series here in Texas and I have not run across any problems with my cache hides. I have also found pleny of caches hidden in cemeteries even with people there in the cemetery visiting and I wasn't even looked at while I had hunted for a cache. As for my cache placements in the well maintained cemeteries that are very much active I place my containers in the bushes outside of the cemetery itself. I have found pleny of not very used and very much forgotten cemeteries and I do place my caches within a tree or bush in the cemetery. I haven't had any logs on any of my cemetery caches that are of anybody getting questioned or feeling very uneasy about my cemetery caches. I just hope I continue to have good luck with my caches cause alot of cachers seam to enjoy my series. As of anylaws for cemetery caches here in Texas I don't beleive I have heard of any buy I know there is for playing around at night or even during the day to prevent vandalism and/or disrespect for the dead.

You see, that's why I despise over-enthusiastic, self righteous police officers. Some of them really do take the job a little too seriously and believe they are the boss of everyone. They are servants for the innocent, nothing more. Maybe he was an over-enthusiastic, self righteous cacher. maybe he wasn't straight-forward with the officer from the beginning. Not knowing the whole story and blaming the police gives cachers a bad name. If anything I would point blame towards Groundspeak. I love caching but I firmly believe there are way too many urban caches that no matter how stealthy a caches thinks they are could easily be mistaken for mischievous activity. I would fully support written permission being required for caches. I know the cacher and he isn't over-enthusiastic at all, Some people beleive officers don't take there authority to far but some do. Yes there are some cacher like me that doesn't take the over use of power lightly but there are proper proceedures in place to deal with that. They charged him for taking an officer from his line of duty I don't see how that can be a legal charge. The main point in all of this is an officer miss using his power due to his embarassment for his over reaction. Groundspeak isn't to blame for some of us cachers placing caches on private property and yes I do have a couple that are and I may arcive them. Groundspeak has made this great caching game for all of use to enjoy and they do have there guidelines that not all of us stick to. They can't police everylocation and know that the blank space that the coordinates show are a lamp post hide on a private parkinglot or a medicine bottle hidden in a bush up against the wall at a walgreens. So I beleive Groundspeak doesnt need to handle any of the blame.

and this the cache seeker might have been a little over-enthusiastic in the exercise of his First Amendment rights. My thought too "illegal use of the mouth after his first release". Why is everyone so fast to fault the LEO? You say " illegal use of the mouth" You say something about a cacher you don't even know. I know him personaly and he is a minster as well. If you don't know him don't say anything.

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. this letter that this topic is about was sent to me by the cacher that had this unfortunate incadent happened to. Condor1 didn't write it so claiming he did and the way it was written claim he did was out of bounds. I know Caleb.Osborn personaly and I have found the cache that was the center of this over reaction by the Midland PD. Yes there are plenty of caches hidden on parking lots and yes I have a couple and I am sure plenty of y'all may have some as well. I know this topic is for the over reaction of the PD and that is what I have to laugh at cause common sence shall come into play. The said cache was in a lamp pole away from any buildings and not near any federal, state or any other building that would be targeted by any idiot that would do any such thing as a bomb. They closed the loop around the town in that area and 2 streets and several buildings around. The brought the robot to remove the cache and all. The officers and the reactions taken by the Midland lawenforcement were emberrased for their over reaction and did what they could do to make up for their over reaction by arresting and charging him for their ignorance. There wasn't any laws broken so how can there be an arrest? They where pointed that out by his lawyer and they must have realized they had to back off. I beleive that any officer and/of DA that has done overuse of power need to be reprominded as they repremend the general public for going 2 miles over the speed limit. I know a lil more into detail about what was told to Caleb but im not going into this topic with it cause the officer might catch some backfire from it and I do hope he does. I have been questioned by law enforcement more then once and had my ID check right along with my sister Kayebear40s the officer was polite and told us that he couldn't stop us for what we are doing and we had our rights. He just advised us if the property owner didn't give permission for the cache to be placed there and he saw us looking on his property he had the right to charge us with criminal trespass. The only concern the officer had with us is that the location wasn't the safest and advised us it maybe safer to get it during the daytime.