cmarrero

I wrote to the sysop of the pirate caching site about the action of his group and this is the reply: Thanks fer yer input. The New Jersey Pirate who clames to have taken all the caches is an imposter to the real Pirate who only moved the items about 100' of so. As fer the hooligans, Aye I have me a few and I understand the need to leave somthin fer them. Thats why all the Pirate who list on me site are asked to follow me rules. We started by removing everything except the log book but now we leave a nice pack of Pirate toys. The cached we did take are slowly being returned with better stuff and more of it. My group no longer takes the whole cache and if we did it would be replaced with in a short distance of the first cache. It be people like ye who help me to work out the trouble with PirateCaching.com Thanks again, The Captain

quote:I don't know about you, but I have better things to do than waste time chasing down the contents of my caches (_if_ they are re-hidden. Judging from some of the posts here, this isn't happening in many cases). Bluehook 11 and Sailing Adriatic have been hidden but the A$$ doesn't even follow the rules set on that site. The concept need a lot of work PLUS we do need a statement by the SYSOP of geocaching.com to put this to rest. Worst case we will need to start making members only cache, but that will Suck for people that can't pay, also get rid of the monthly and keep the yearly in place. I think 30/yr will get rid of the pirates, unless they are crazy enought to pay $30.00 a year to loot caches.

Ok Now for my 2 Cents because I encounter the missing loot. I kinda like the idea according to what I have found the 2 caches the Pirate took is in the same park so we are going to try to reclaim it for the cache owners today after church. Now the idea is good but this A$$ can't even follow the rules on the game he is playing. He didn't leave a log book and he didn't leave any little toys for the kiddies that is what my young ones look for. Age 6,5,2,1 if this person follow his own rules then he would have made if fun cause this kids would have a toy and us adults would be out looking for another cache to help of the owner kinda like a search and rescue. I do think that the concept need a little work, also the guy needs a better website. And there should be no looting caches like the ones that where put out by kids for kids, Or based in kid location, like a kiddie park. The ones in that are adult based or not like a 1/1 should be fair game. Now on to archiving cache in responce to pirates, I think that would not be worth it. Maybe noting in the online logs that a pirate was there so people that will visit know what they are in for. But if we are going to archive every cache the we should just shut down geocaching.com and forget the whole concept. sooner of later they will get tired of doing this and just stay home. I can't think of how 1 person can get the jolly off on doing this every single weekend. Well those are my thoughts on the subject. Now let me step down from the soapbox