Urbo doesn't seem like a bad guy. In the past month he has been pretty active locally (yes I'm a Miami cacher myself) and has hit most of our (GeoBear18 and myself) caches. I would describe him as overly enthusiastic. When two of our microswent missing, he and his crew logged them as findsbecause they found their probable hiding places. When visiting a recently place multi-cache, they took the final cache container home with them because they lost/forgot the suggested tools for opening it.
Conclusion? IMHO Urbo needs to need to take a deep breath and relax. Geocaching as a sport is open to anyone and can be played by any rules. Geocaching as its managed through GeoCaching.com is still open to anyone, but in an attempt to keep the sport clean, and going as long as possible (because I agree that our days of free form play our limited) you need to play by the rules of the site. Rules that are there to keep things fun. Keep things legal. Keep the general public from seeing us as sneaks, litter bugs, and terrorists in training. And if Urbo has a problem with that, there are other GeoCaching sites where he can post his brilliant hides.
Between GeoBear18 and myself, we have 29 caches in the wild with only one denial. A 29 to 1 ratio because we stick to the sprit of the rules rather then arguing the details.
GeoCaching.com is a privately owned bossiness. A business where its proprietor (the fine Mr. Jeremy) generously grants us the use of its resources for free. Personally, I have no problem putting minor limits on my actions and imagination in exchange for the genuine hoot of having access to such a wide variety of caches, and to have our 29 available to such a wide audience.
To both Jeremy and Crow Robot... Keep up the good work.
