Trinity's Crew

I do spend more time reading the forums than I do caching, but that's because I read the forums at work and later in the evening. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

I guess this means he knows what a "geocide" is now... Edit: removed emoticon.

I would like to take this opportunity to say that I think Ifishaz is right and everyone else is wrong... I'd like to but I'd be lyin'. Ifishaz, take a step back and look at the reaction your post has caused. You are fighting a losing battle. Even if you do get a couple of people to agree with you, the overwhelming majority of the people who posted think the cache placement is a bad idea. It also violates the guidelines. If you want to fight against oppresion, just keep wandering near the airport with YOUR GPS unit. I'm sure you'll be detained soon enough.

From "The Straight Dope" on the origin of "hobo": As usual, there are various theories: (1) bearing in mind that a hobo traditionally has been a migrant worker, not simply a vagrant, it comes from "hoe boy," a migratory farm worker. (2) It derives from the expression "hey, bo," bo being a sardonic corruption of the French word beau, a dandy. (3) It comes from "ho, boy," which was apparently what railroad mailhandlers in the northwestern U.S. yelled when they heaved mailbags off the trains. Take your pick.

Okay, if y'all want this thread to die, I'll add my post. That should kill it. It usually does! Or maybe I'm just paranoid.

That part of that sentence keeps nagging at me. I know you probably didn't mean it this way, but it comes out like unless you get a smiley it isn't worth the effort to go meet a prolific and nice geocacher from out of state. Sorry about that JoGPS. I believe that Snoogans point is that many people were denied the opportunity because, without a cache listing, they weren't aware of it. There are other methods of getting the word out, (forums, word-of-mouth, etc...) but none as efficient or visible as a cache listing.

I think it's an invitation to the creation of sock puppets. I agree.

Oooh! Berate me! Berate me!!!!

Create a sock puppet (fake) account, flame the site owner and anyone else that disagreed with you. I'm sure there are plenty of other ways too.

Mmmmmmm... Butter Brickle.... My favorite... Hey, wait a minute... What happened to the "BAN MICROS" thread? It seems like it was hijacked by ice cream junkies. I say let's ban ice cream filled micros! (Unless they're filled with butter brickle!) Edit: Added brickle bracket.

No.

It WAS tempting to keep the YJTB I found in February, and I did hold on to it too long. (I emailed the owner and told him I was holding it for a while, though. When I did release it a local cacher was happy to log his first Jeep and I was glad to have been able to give him the opportunity. Even though they probably will just disappear again, if LaPaglia actually gets any tags back, it may allow a few more cachers the opportunity to log a YJTB. Good luck! (And let us know how it goes!)

Still open?

A simple note on your cache page(s) explaining your deployment (or any other situation) would alleviate any problems you might have with degraded/damaged/archived caches during an extended absence. Many or most in the geocaching community would gladly restock/maintain/repair your cache(s) while you served. The key is communication. If you explain the situation, reasonable people will be glad to pitch in and do whatever is necessary. Edit: Added below. It is the absence of information that causes confusion. As I (and Welch) said before, if you can't be bothered to explain what you are doing, you may not like the solution that others come up with.

We'll have to agree to disagree on this one El Diablo. I don't think it's a good idea to leave disabled caches laying all over the place on the off chance that they might be listed somewhere else. As Welch said in a previous post, "Being misunderstood is just one of things that you risk happening when you don't bother telling anyone what your doing." If you can't muster the courtesy of a response to inquiries about disabled caches, you run the risk of having others assume that you simply don't care about them anymore.

If the cacher is unresponsive, you will NEVER get all the facts. How much time needs to pass before the geocaching community decides to "clean up" the mess that he left behind? This isn't meant to be antagonistic. I really want to know what you deem a reasonable waiting period.

Interesting: NO REPLIES!

Very interesting: 20 REPLIES! Edit: Accidentally posted twice so I may as well change the number!

Very interesting: 19 REPLIES!

I think you could send a SASE to the PO box NOW for the current contest. Once the winners are chosen, you'll receive the list. Seems like plenty of time to me.

Do you notice any irony in your post? Not really... There's a difference between beating someone up and stepping in to defend someone who is being beaten up. In both cases you are swinging your fists, but for very different reasons.

me three.

Sounds like a vacation cache... Good luck getting it approved!

From your last post I surmise that someone retrieved a Jeep travel bug from a cache and placed it in their own cache only to have it turn up missing when the next cacher attempted to find it. You believe that the cacher(s) who removed it from your cache may have kept it, only pretending to drop it off. Don't sweat it. You can't do anything about it. Maybe they kept it, but maybe someone came along after they dropped it off and didn't bother to log it. Just try to cache with integrity and hope that others will follow your lead. Edited to remove unneeded space. Edit: This jeep is still moving as far as I can tell... No harm, no foul.