BulldogBlitz

future geocachers. Future sumo wrestlers. More in keeping with where this thread has gone; future diabetics and heart patients whom we will all share the cost of treating. only if there is government (i'm sorry...gubmint) healthcare. at this moment, i don't think anyone other than me and my insurance (or just me when i was uninsured) has paid for my ailments.

future geocachers.

as to buying a piece of technology in one part of the world and it working elsewhere... i almost sympathize with them. DVD region codes.... i suppose as soon as they start charging you for the signal, that might come in to play.

Me too. That reminds me... I have to do three more caches before Saturday! i suppose i should find 29 for me. either that or just tag it as "memorable".

oh... this reminds me of another... a cache in another city, far from home listed their cache... described it as "not just another piece of trash" or something to that effect. as far as i could tell, it was supposed to be a fake coke can outside of a dumpster. went to the cache... didn't find it, didn't log it as not found. but did look for about 20 minutes at the stray garbage in the area wondering why this place of business has a dumpster on the frontside - and so messy.

i saw someone replace a few logs... and actually put in their online (and paper) log "FTF!! new log!"

correct you are!

a solid portion of the gc.com users don't feel this way.... they'd do almost anything for a smiley. some of us would go the extra mile and gripe in a forum FOR that smiley. talk about letting an object control how you feel....

"i picked that area for YOU to cito" it is a lot like a woman calling into the radio station the other day.... "every time i drive by this one spot in my neighborhood there is all this litter strewn everywhere, when is someone from the city going to come down and pick it up?"

one.... there's been a couple of multicaches that give no indication of how many stages, in a heavily traveled part of town (lots of chances for any stage to be removed accidentally or intentionally). not many finders on it to this point. has me scratching my head what the point is supposed to be... puzzles or mind-reading? two.... any cache that is on the ground in waist deep poison ivy. i drove away from one last week. they could jack the difficulty on that one up to 5 for me.

grr....now i gotta find my manual to even know if i can check this "zero point"....

...with that bit o' sarcasm, suppose it was a good thing the gub'mint didn't do an outright ban on interaction with gays in the 80s, as the aids epidemic took full hold in a lifestyle which did little to slow the spread.

depends on the toy... my son opened a cache the other day, three mctoys and a bone from some animal. the bone is in the car.

i recall that brief time that mcdonalds put beanie babies in their happy meals too. i'd say the sales of happy meals intended for little kids shifted to women over 35. i'd rather not have a choice regulated to me. along that vein, i have been known to buy something like that, just for the reward, and throw the food out. i know my mom bought three boxes of cheerios for me 35+ years ago... when that third box went uneaten, she figured out what i was doing and refused to continue buying them. oh... and i collected camel bucks too. never once have i smoked a cig (didn't buy any either).

Really? Can you name one area where there is a minimum find count (or any other requirement) before you can hide a cache? well... i think this is part of the discussion, there is no written rule anywhere that dictates that. the individual caching communities tend to self-police.

i'd rather my insurance company refuse to cover those things. i'd rather swim in the pool of like-minded folks. if you want to ride a bike (motor or pedal) without a helmet... naked...through the artic circle... that is your choice. not mine, and certainly not mine to pay for any hospital bills that come from your lifestyle. ...and before it is suggested, i'm not saying that the insurance company dictates to me how i should live.... only that they offer a product which fits how i choose to live. there are those of us in the world who won't die because the parachute didn't open.... or smoked too many cigs.... or lived on the san andreas fault.

accuracy...consistency....precision... etc. reading through this thread, it would appear that there is some false assumptions by some posters that once a cache has been reviewed, those coordinates are "correct". the nail is just another point... but it serves a purpose, the starting point. doing this at an event, would put everyone participating relative to that first stab in the dark. i like that cheyenne GC, too bad it is so far from me.

i love it! There are a few hounds here who are verbose on their FTFs, and then on the ones they fail to get FTF - enjoy telling everyone their excuses for not getting out there 10 minutes after it was received on their smart phones. ....now let me see how it can be twisted into fitting a "power trail"....hmmm.

...but in some areas, that is precisely what it takes to place a geocache... only sacred cows may place a cache, if you don't fit - you must quit.

they could just place that in each forum sub chapter, at the top. when someone new joins up, they can ask why there are only three posts (or just read the one post asking that which is now locked) in the forums if there are 3,000,000 geocachers in the world....

Whoever has the power to tell you that you can never place another geocache there again or he will have you arrested- and follow through with it. Every parcel of land in the USA has an owner or a manager. It's a matter of public record. can that land be taken away from the deemed "owner"?

i was impressed. until i went out and did 7. now i am the world record holder!

who truly owns the land?

Yes, it would be out of line since they weren't the ones who down-graded the contents over time. I am a big proponent of trading up and I prefer to leave stuff for the kids. As far as I'm concerned adults can go out buy carp for themselves. At least with an ammocan you can actually leave something. I'm not so sure Carp would be good in a cache it might tend to stink it up a bit. Mmmm carp...the other white meat. I'll stick to bass. Bass-O-Matic

hamster spit works great. the only drawback, it takes so long to get the amount needed. better be a small piece of paper.