theweirdozone

Duplicate post, sorry.

Hello everyone. I am adding this thread because I was one of the two people who found the cache on the day in question and is now possibly subject to charges for inciting a panic. I just want to clear the air on a few things. First, many of the statements in the news articles are just not true. One article says that we dropped the container and ran to the car. In fact, I couldn't fit it back on the guardrail, and then I realized that I was trying to put it in the wrong area. As we cached, we did not see anyone watching us. We did not run to the car. As far as a beeping sound in one of our pockets, one of our cell phones was ringing which we answered. The cache in question is located in Bridgeport, OH, which is just across the river from Wheeling, WV. The cache number is GC195FQ. As of right now, I believe that the charges may be dropped as the police dept. learns more about geocaching. There has been an enormous response from the local geocaching community, which we appreciate. In my opinion, the police dept. took the appropriate action in the situation. However, I feel it was just a misunderstanding and no one needs to be charged. The outside of the container was not labeled as a geocache, which is one of the main problems. Obviously, I have seen the container and I know what it looks like in person. We placed the purple kaleidoscope in the container. I think that part of the problem is that the Wheeling area is almost saturated with geocaches. People are running out of places to have quality hides. As such, cachers are resorting to locations that have more traffic and are more commonplace. As the sport increases, I see this as an evergrowing problem. The more caches we bring into the city, the higher the chance that this will happen again. The best solution is to try and keep the police departments aware of caches in their area, and above all, to label the container so bystandards will be able to identify it as harmless prop. I hope this helps all of you, and feel free to ask questions. Thanks for your support.

Hello everyone. I am adding this thread because I was one of the two people who found the cache on the day in question and is now possibly subject to charges for inciting a panic. I just want to clear the air on a few things. First, many of the statements in the news articles are just not true. One article says that we dropped the container and ran to the car. In fact, I couldn't fit it back on the guardrail, and then I realized that I was trying to put it in the wrong area. As we cached, we did not see anyone watching us. We did not run to the car. As far as a beeping sound in one of our pockets, one of our cell phones was ringing which we answered. The cache in question is located in Bridgeport, OH, which is just across the river from Wheeling, WV. The cache number is GC195FQ. As of right now, I believe that the charges may be dropped as the police dept. learns more about geocaching. There has been an enormous response from the local geocaching community, which we appreciate. In my opinion, the police dept. took the appropriate action in the situation. However, I feel it was just a misunderstanding and no one needs to be charged. The outside of the container was not labeled as a geocache, which is one of the main problems. Obviously, I have seen the container and I know what it looks like in person. We placed the purple kaleidoscope in the container. I think that part of the problem is that the Wheeling area is almost saturated with geocaches. People are running out of places to have quality hides. As such, cachers are resorting to locations that have more traffic and are more commonplace. As the sport increases, I see this as an evergrowing problem. The more caches we bring into the city, the higher the chance that this will happen again. The best solution is to try and keep the police departments aware of caches in their area, and above all, to label the container so bystandards will be able to identify it as harmless prop. I hope this helps all of you, and feel free to ask questions. Thanks for your support.

Just testing.

Well, not only can I not access the wap site because of the char 64 problem on my Motorola E815, but now even the rtr.ca/geo site won't work for me. Whenever I go to the zip code screen, it just keeps recycling when you type anything in. Suggestions, solutions, anything?

I'm getting this error on the Verizon Razr V3C that I just got yesterday. The http://rtr.ca/geo site works, but as someone else reported, you can't see coordinates because a login is required. Oh good... it's not just me. I also get the same error with the same phone. Me too, same phone, same provider, same problem. I am having the problem with my new Alltel Motorola E815. Add me to the list. I noticed some fixes for the Motorola's in the past, but have no idea what any of it means. Hope someone can figure it out.

I was doing some thinking and came up with a question that I'm sure someone has already asked. I was wondering if it would be possible to develop a rating system for people that have visited a cache. I know in Wheeling, WV where I live, there only used to be a few caches, and now there are probably 30-40 and more every day. For someone not from the area, it would be nice for them to have a rating to pick which cache to visit. Obviously, some caches have more time and effort put into their design and hiding, and it would be great for someone visiting a town to be able to identify those more easily. This would also help in setting up the ability to identify the best caches in different states or even different countries. Just a thought I had, and I'm sure you've heard it before. Let me know what you think.