GatoRx
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I'd certainly use the service if my cell phone had the capability; unfortunately though, it doesn't. I'll keep this in mind for the next time I buy a new phone though.
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You know my story Greg - so I'd be happy with an event in Jax or Gainesville.
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One of the first caches I found had all kinds of stuff from many decades ago scattered around nearby. If I remember correctly, there were a couple of trucks, some appliances, and hundreds of empty beer cans and liquor bottles; everything (not counting the bottles) was completely rusted, and a lot of it had bullet holes (it was a pretty backwoods place until a few years ago.) I guess the area was one heck of a party site way back when.
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Originally posted by donnelson:Guess now all to do is hop around town and get Waypoints for the Food Banks an Shelters.
and get some 35 mm film cases for micro caches.
I will be doing this soon in the Phoenix Arizona Metro Area. anyone who would like to help in this endeavor let me know. especially if you work close to one of the locations and can get the waypoints. perhaps we can make a "Team Fight Hunger"
A good place to start finding food banks and shelters may be through local churches. Some of them distribute donations directly from the church, and many collect clothing and food to take to places that are devoted specifically to this sort of thing.
A couple more ideas: If you live in a city with a children's hospital, there may be a Ronald McDonald house nearby, which provides housing for families of children staying for long periods of time in the hospital. A member of my church often collects toiletries for the families to use - things like sample sizes of toothpaste, soap, shampoo, and shaving cream. If you contact the House itself, they could probably give you a good idea of what could be used.
Hospice centers are another option. I live right next to a hospice house called Hope Lodge; its right down the street from a major teaching hospital, and provides housing for cancer patients who are coming from out of town to receive outpatient chemotherapy treatments that require them to be in town for several weeks to months. They don't necessarily need food or toiletries, but often ask people to donate things like magazines they've already read, or VHS tapes - mainly things to give the residents something to do while waiting for their next round of chemo.
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Not sure about the county its in, but its supposed to be in south Florida this Saturday. Check out the post here.
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If you do have to use it (hopefully you wouldn't need to in a defensive situation), make sure your aim is good. The aunt of a friend of mine had a snake in her backyard and, not really knowing what to do, decided to try killing it with a flare gun. The flare hit the ground just in front of the snake, bounced over her fence, and landed in a neighbor's palm tree. The tree caught fire, of course, and the fire department had to be called. No major damage was done, but it certainly shows the need for care with one.
At least the event resulted in a funny story.
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I like the idea, and would probably hunt it, just to see what an ammo box full of pennies looks like (I bet it would have an interesting smell too... ammo box and penny...) And considering how much that would weigh, you probably wouldn't have to worry too much about someone running of with the cache.
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Most definitely! The very first lesson I learned while benchmarking was to not trust the coordinates - if I had, I would have been swimming 200 feet out in a large river. Now I leave the GPSr in the car, and just go by the location description listed with the mark.
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I don't know if you'd be interested or not, but there are some letterboxes throughout the Keys. I recall reading about one that has four boxes to it, and when you get the stamps from all of the boxes, the images can be put together for one big picture.
It may not be something you're interested in, but it sounded like a neat idea to me.
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Since no one else is offering, I'll give it a shot.
About five or six years ago, I was down in the Keys staying at a place on Sugarloaf Key (I believe that was the name of it.) There was a small rental place on the island, and they did have kayaks - I don't think there were any tours offered, it was just a "hop in and start paddling" sort of thing.
I don't remember how close that is to Islamorada, and it may not have that sort of thing anymore, but hopefully its a start for you.
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Originally posted by infosponge:The park has a nice view, but I can't imagine the need to place a cache there so great that they had to use the only patch of vegetation...right next to the port-a-pottie. The smell was terrible. I would have just said "oh well, I guess I won't put a cache in this park..."
It could have been worse - on the other side of the vegetation patch (a little further from the port-a-potty) there was a used condom on the ground. Imagine how bad the hunt would have been if you'd put your hand on that, and then had the guy almost urinate on you.
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Originally posted by Cache Canucks:when you go into a voting booth to vote for a political leader, do you write a paragraph or two beside the tick mark you place on your ballot to explain _why_ you voted the way you did?
Well, I'm a Florida voter, so I don't use tick marks, I punch out chads. No wait, now I fill in circles like on exams in high school. No, now its on a touchscreen. I never know how I'm going to vote...
When all else fails though, and the person I voted for didn't win, I just call in the lawyers.
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Originally posted by Team GPSaxophone:What network?
If its Tom Brokaw, it must be NBC.
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In the first cache I hid (the only one at the moment, but another should be coming soon), I put a t-shirt featuring one of the animated members of the band Gorillaz. I won a prize pack of stuff from the band after answering a Simpsons' trivia contest in the local paper; the shirt was too small for me, and it seemed like a nice item for a fellow cacher and fan of the band. It was taken by the first finder, who managed to beat another couple who really wanted it.
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So that's why you said its only accessible during the week.
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Yep, the smell from the nearby port-a-potty is pretty bad at that park (and the cache is about 4 feet from it, so you get a really good wiff...)
The park is mainly used by fishermen, as its right on a major river. I can understand the need to go when you've been standing around all day, but I guess he was lacking in common decency. Hope you enjoyed the other parks around town though.
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Originally posted by crashmore:Yeah thats because their donuts are almost as addicting as crack is. Once they get you hooked your done for
Ever notice that when the "Hot Doughnuts Now" sign is lit up, your car seems to drive itself into the parking lot?
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Originally posted by Jamie Z:You have got to be kidding me. Her entire arm, encased in a condom? This is almost good enough to test myself. Er, if the idea of doing that wasn't so bizarre.
Jamie
I kid not - I wouldn't have believed it unless I saw it myself. She may have been using one of the "extra thick" condoms, but I'm pretty sure it was just a run-of-the-mill, normal thickness condom. I wouldn't try it with a lubricated condom though - might be rather messy.
And to possibly correct my previous post, I think it may be 15 liters of air, not gallons. I can't locate the exact amount at the moment, but liters sounds more reasonable.
As far as the original question for the topic goes, I don't have any particular problem with people putting condoms in caches, I just have a problem with people trying to use them for their manufacturer-intended purpose after they've been sitting in a cache. The risk of breakage during use is just too much for them to be considered safe to use. As for putting water in them, I don't care for the taste of latex in my water... and I'm not even going to think about water from a lubricated condom.
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Originally posted by dave and jaime:doesnt heat and cold affect the 'supple-ness' of latex?
Yes, the latex used to make condoms can become "brittle", and thus more likely to break during use, when exposed to temperature extremes - that's one of the reasons that its not such a good idea to carry a condom around in your wallet. If the heat from being in your pocket is enough to render a condom unusable, imagine what would happen if one sat in an ammo box in the sun for a summer.
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I once had one fit approx 3 gallon (I did not measure, but it looked about like a 5 gallon jug- don't correct my math) before it broke.If I remember correctly, FDA requires that condoms be able to hold 15 gallons of air (it may even be 25, I don't remember exactly.) They pull random condoms from manufactured batches to test for this. That amount is for "fresh" condoms though - they haven't been subjected to general storage. During a class I had on teaching sex ed, the professor took out a condom and stretched it over her fingers, past her wrist, then her elbow, all the way up to her shoulder - and this was over her left arm, and she was wearing a diamond ring - without it breaking. They're strong, but put condoms in the wrong environment and you're better off just throwing them out.
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Perhaps this could be an idea put in the Discussion section of the forums as a suggestion for a new site feature - "Markwell Separation."
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Originally posted by Rubbertoe:I was watching TLC or Discovery Channel or something the other day, and they were showing these folks in the middle of nowhere - base jumping into this giant hole in the ground. I wasn't awake enough to catch the name or location, but it is this huge cave/hole/whatever - people jump in, then get pullied back out. I was hoping one of them would place a cache there.
I saw that one too - the "Cave of the Swallows" or something like that, in Mexico. I got dizzy just watching the guys lean over the edge to look in... It was pretty cool to watch all of the birds come circling out of the cave mouth (it would have gotten real interesting if one of the guys jumped when the birds were flying...)
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Originally posted by Dinoprophet:"Local Nerd Actively Seeks Discarded Happy Meal Toys, Golf Balls"
That sounds about right...
Or perhaps "Technology Laden Geeks Invading Military Surplus and Dollar Stores"? Something to that effect anyway...
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Hmm, lets see...
more time to geocache
a new leatherman
Lord of the Rings 4 disc DVD set
Star Wars Epidose II DVD
sure do hope I can come up with a few more things...
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I am so boycotting this thread that I've handcuffed myself to it, in an effort to draw so much attention to it that people stop paying attention to it.
And I'm going on a hunger strike.
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Self-made 1st aid kits
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I think the idea sounds great, although I probably wouldn't trade for one unless my usual supplies were out and I was in need.
Being a pharmacy student, and having nurses for parents means that you find yourself with a lot of first aid items.
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