Team Truncheon

See... this is the kind of response we should see... none of that 'cache cop' junk here. This was a virtual i took the kids to 7 years ago, and i sent the requirements to the CO at that time. In the log i asked if it was ok that i claimed the find even though the answer was sent eons ago: "Hey, so for taking so long to respond about your question regarding "counting" the Rookwood Readers. Of course you can! Thanks for visiting our cache! Crappiefisher and Murex"

Thanks, MJS. I think I will let GC know... but this CO's attitude about it still rubs me a little raw. It's not like I was trying to get one over on him. And yeah, I should have made my son log his own finds, true that... but he was pretty young to remember some of those early finds, and he would still be logging the first 50... i love him to death, but he's really becoming the stereotypical slacker teen... Tis true. At least make him keep his account up to date. Builds character! Or something like that. oh yeah... he already knows that keeping his account up-to-date by himself is part of the deal. that was part of the agreement we made when he asked for his own account. i will be on top of him about that... told him that if he didn't post his own logs timely, i would post the log for him with something embarrasing so he would have to at least fix it. lol. and i added a friendship to his account to my girlfriend's daughter, who he thinks is cute, so there's more motivation to not have dad add embarrasing log posts...

I guess this guy just needed to prove the fact that there is at least one butt-head in every crowd. Yeah, there's always at least one... lol Well, if i contact GC and have them reinstate the log, I wonder what will happen when I log my other son's finds and he deletes that one, too? Hopefully he won't make an issue out of that log, also... sheesh!

Let GS know, they should reinstate the find. That sort of back logging is allowed. You also should be able to log his finds on the PMO caches. Personally I would have made him do the relogging- but that is me. Thanks, MJS. I think I will let GC know... but this CO's attitude about it still rubs me a little raw. It's not like I was trying to get one over on him. And yeah, I should have made my son log his own finds, true that... but he was pretty young to remember some of those early finds, and he would still be logging the first 50... i love him to death, but he's really becoming the stereotypical slacker teen...

Well, I have a situation that i'd like some opinion on, if you please - My kids and I have been caching for over 7 years. we found all our caches under our team name, and physically signed the logs only one time with our name. My 12yo son, who cached with us when he was 5, recently requested i set up an account for him, which I obliged. I went and logged online all of the previous finds he was with us on, which aside from a few archived premium caches (and one that was locked), I had no trouble doing by reviewing all of the team's past logs. His total cache count, including the current/recent finds, ended up being 315 caches. Come to check his profile a few days later, and notice that he had one less cache listed, so i checked his email, and sure enough, someone had deleted his log. When I posted the logs, I made sure to clearly indicate that this was a new account, that he (my son) had found the cache(s) with the family, and even put some sort of description of the cache area to help verify he/we were actually there. Not only that, but my son's geo name is similar to our team name, and ours were the only logs for that day - it is obvious what was going on when the cache was logged, if he had bothered to check. The thing is - it was found almost 7 years ago. I wrote the cache owner asking why. The response was that he could not 'verify' that my son was actually there, especially since it was almost 7 years ago. Granted, this is only a crappy micro in front of a mexican restaurant, so it really shouldn't be a big deal. This CO told me to have my son go by and resign the log and then he could then log the find. Problem is that we live in a city 500 miles away, and have no plans on revisiting that area any time soon. I personally think this is childish on the CO's part, but I guess he can delete the log if he wishes. I am very close to deleting my log on that cache too, and might check my logs to see if i found any more by this guy and deleting those, as well. This guy has hidden over 250+ caches in his area, and I highly doubt he is 'verifying' each and every cache to make sure each and every online log is valid. This CO apparently lives in a highly touristed area, so i'm sure there has to be a degree of 'late logs' that people have forgotten to post. I am all for ethical caching (i scoured my logs to make sure i was not posting finds to my son's account that he had not visited), but this guy being a cache cop like this leaves a bad taste in my mouth...absolutely no one else has deleted any of his logs.

i think i figured it out! I kept exiting out of the 'add new hardware' dialog when it popped up after connecting, because i thought it might be a glitch with windoze... after all, it should have already recognize the CO from previous connections, right? wrong. i guess it adds some spanner code to the registry or sumpfin, because now it sees it. hooray! now i need a good mapping program that can work with the info... on edit - yes, g-o-cashers, i wasn't allowing it to add the drivers, assuming windoze should already see the CO. it might be a good idea to include this little tidbit about allowing drivers to be installed if you add this info to the wiki. thanx for all the input everyone!

thanx vaucluse, but i've done that and i'm running in spanner mode already. i followed g-o-casher's instructions exactly, but still no dice.

hmmmm... can't seem to get spanner to recognize the colorado. it doesn't see the gpsr at all. could it be because i'm inside and can't get a sat signal? anyone else have this issue with spanner and the colorado?

Ha! this just happened a couple weeks ago in my town. a cacher was checking out a park for a place to drop his first cache...and found another cache hidden that was in queue to be approved.

I'll throw my name in the hat, as well! Thanx!