WVNascarGrl

Actually the bickering and yelling was on the end of the mayor. No matter how much my friends tried to explain to him he just wanted no part of it. Said "he didn't want that stuff in his town" Hopefully some local cachers can talk to him about this and give him an overview of caching - with actual documentation (which wasn't available at the time) Guess time will tell.

This morning a friend of mine went caching in Bethlehem, WV for Bethlehem Community Park cache that was hidden recently by a local cacher. He was pretty much ambushed by the mayor of said city. Asking what he was doing, what caching was. He didn't seem to like AT ALL what this caching was all about. He questioned the liability if a cacher would be injured on the propery. (I'm sorry, isn't this a public park - where ANYONE would be at risk for an injury? Not just cachers? What about that?) Anyhow, after much bickering and yelling this lovely mayor decided that he wanted NO caches in his city. All must be removed. He said it was for "security reasons" and "that he didn't know what kind of people these caches were going to be bringing thru his beautiful little down". I've been concerned about something like this for quite some time. I just have a feeling that our hobby is going to be stamped out by all the security hype these days. It's just a darn shame. Well I'll tell you one thing, it will be a cold day before I visit any of the businesses or parks in Bethlehem. You can thank your wonderful mayor for that. sorry to vent - it just irritates me.

Actually I wanted to stick around and watch the excitement but FFEMT said that probably wasn't a wise idea. I think I've been watching Dogg the Bounty Hunter a little too much cause there for about 3 minutes I was debating on whether to try and capture the guy. I could just see it now: **in stealth mode action** "Hello, in your runnings thru the woods here, did you happen to notice a tupperware container covered with sticks??"... WHAM!!! CAUGHT!!!! HEADLINES: "Suspect caught by GPS welding geocacher. -Details at 11!!" LOL

How ironic that I would be on here Monday and Tuesday reading about folks strange adventures while caching. Only to have one happen to us last night. For more details go here and check out my log: Bopp Playground Let's just say this made for an interesting caching adventure.