No.
Score one for the republican zombies who think things like "All Muslims are Terrorists" and allow people like Tom Ridge to convince them to live in fear. It's the very people who extol the horrors of the "people who hate our way of life" who are destroying our way of life, through their simplistic fear-mongering. More Duct Tape for EVERYONE!
The reality of the situation is that, despite the fact that far too many people have incorrect ideas and live in a ridiculous state of fear (Anyone else notice most of them live nowhere near NYC?), we need to be conscious of these facts when we play our games.
Despite the usefulness of ammo cans as caches, should we consider using other containers more prevelantly for the time being, at least in 'sensitive' areas?
I've heard alot of good suggestions such as painting the caches a bright color, etc, but it still doesn't help the most important problem, which exhibits itself with one word:
IGNORANCE
I can wax philosophical on the thousands of compound ways in which ignorance rears it's ugly head, even in such a narrow scope as the topic at hand, but there are only so many problems we can fix.
The simple fact of the matter is that most people don't know what Geocaching is. Imagine how we look to the regular person ('Muggle', if you will, but I think it's using derogatory language like that which compounds our problem of public perception) when we're stumbling through the woods with a strange black box (My Legend C is black, I realise not All GPS' are) rummaging through tree stumps, etc. You'd get kind of nervous too, especially if the government was on the television all the time telling you that today's a "Red Day" and to duct tape your windows and wear your gas mask.
If we make more effort to educate these people, they'll recognise it for what it is. I remember a time when I first began playing paintball, when the field opened at our local ski area, when we were all seen as a bunch of gun-nut militia wackos, and people doing other summer recreation gave us a LOT of distance when we came near. The fact is it was mostly alot of 14 year old kids (was I really THAT young?) going out to have fun. I've never fired a firearm in my life.
It took alot of education, and I saw some wonderful things happen to teach people, like setting up a free target range and inviting people to try it out. When people saw that it was firing a little ball of paint, and it was a LOT OF FUN, they stopped looking at things with such skepticism.
Get out to your local parks; get involved with volunteer trail maintenance groups and start spreading the word about geocaching - what it is, how it works, and what to look for. Create pamphlets, convince your local park systems to create official cache placement rules, and publish information about geocaching in it's newsletters, etc.
With a little bit of work and education, people will start seeing a strange box under a bridge and their first reaction won't be "Oh my god someone is trying to blow up <insert your population 10 village here>!".
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