tabulator32

Thirty-five!

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Two scary thoughts: 1. The bomb scare that started this thread said it used a lunch box type container. I suggest that no matter WHAT type of container you use, it may strike someone as a hazzard. If you use a Barbie Doll Thermos and someone calls the cops, it will probably still make the news as a bomb threat. (May as well use something strong and durable and just try to make it look less threatining and make sure you LABEL IT PROPERLY.) 2. The possibility that some freakin' idiot out there will actually make a container and label it with geocache stickers or other geo-identification and actually put a bomb or something else insane in it can really be detrimental to the sport. There are always some losers or lunatics who would do something like that in an attempt to make THEIR dangerous package look LESS threatening. P.S. Don't mind my bantering. I just really despise terrorists.

From another discussion on this forum site: --------------------------------------------------- Law & Order: Criminal Intent NBC May 08 09:00pm EST Series/Drama, 60 Mins. "The Unblinking Eye" A young actor is wounded and his fiancee killed, leading detectives to look into a high-tech treasure-hunting game called geocaching. --------------------------------------------------- Are we just getting a lot of bad publicity, or WHAT?!

Served standard four years in USN CG67 - USS Shiloh - Guided Missile Cruiser Operations Specialist 2nd Class yep...interesting stuff.

Me neither, I was in the Army, not the Navy I WAS in the Navy and I have no idea.

Then it would not count. I am sure "archaeological sites" must refer to officially registered, posted and staked archaeological sites. How else could they possibly enforce it?

I just heard them say they are on page 41. The GC bill is on page 43. Oops. They just said they are going to page 38. Hmm. Do they skip around?

Note to self: No GeoCache hunting in Chester, California for the next few days.

GeoCaching is fun. Fun things become more popular. Popular things become bigger. Bigger things get more recognition (both good and bad). The bigger it gets, the more "issues" will appear and the more people will try to regulate it. I will hate to see the day GeoCaching loses its self-regulation, however, it will gradually be overcome by bureaucrats and well-intending organizations created to save us from ourselves. As GeoCaching draws more and more people, it will become more and more economically viable and financeering predators will commercialize it, making it even more succeptable to regulation, and it will eventually have as many rules and regulations as a meat-packing plant and will be about as fun. Anyhow, I digress. I love GeoCaching and I hope it never changes. (Watch out, though...it will.)

For what its worth... 1. I think the vast majority of caches would be well out of reach of very small children who might injure themselves with a laser pointer. 2. Most very small children who DO hunt geo-caches usually bring a parent who might assist them in such adventures. and, most bizarre of all... 3. The toy vending machines at the grocery store lobby near my favorite coffee shop will randomly vend a very small laser pointer complete with batteries for a "luck of the draw" shot of 75 cents. Other possible "rewards" from the same machine include a metal "toe ring" small enough to be swallowed and various mini automatic pistol replicas on keychains. All of these are about eye-level to a five year old from the machine's perspective. I would campaign against toy vending machines in grocery store lobbies before I complained about the cache I hiked a quarter-mile to get at. (I would just like to comment that I don't mean to down play the importance of child safety, nor do I mean to offend anyone who made any posts on this topic.) I think the lunk-head who brought a laser pointer to shine in the cockpit of a commercial jetliner may have some explaining to do and a fine to pay, but I, personally, wouldn't have a rule against laser pointers in caches.

I'm curious. When you click on the link in CoyoteRed's auto-signature, it takes you to a copy of the bill in question (16-17-605). Section E of the bill says... "(E) The provisions of this section do not preclude a person from being charged with a violation of Section 16-17-600 in addition to a violation of this section." What is 16-17-600?

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