DontPanic67

Create a few caches in parking lots near security cameras, place a large note about people stealing geocoins and trashing caches, oh and to "Look up and smile for the camera". A lack of anonymity (and some paranoia) might be enough to let him know that their activities have been noticed. As for unfriendly caches, micros in Stinging Nettle or Roses with HUGE thorns!

Something I find funny in all of this is that the OP has not said anything since starting the thread. I have to wonder if they thought nobody would look any deeper? I guess they don't read the forum much either...

It all depends on the location and the rock hide. This hide is between two trees with a bunch of holes and I had almost tripped over several river rocks and concrete debris littered all around the area. Once I went thru the holes in the trees that COULD hold a micro, I kicked over a couple of rocks before calling it a DNF. Here's one I put together - I just needed to paint the head of the cache white and speckle it a little with black.

I'm notorious for picking up junk along the way -- "oooh, I think I can make a cache with that .." -- and have a giant speaker with a huge magnet on it. If I ever get that sucker off, you'll be able to find a magnetic 50 cal. ammo box stuck somewhere. Thing one - Is that a plastic Wyler's bullion cube bottle on top? Thing two - A 50 cal ammo can with one of those big bass speaker magnets? Oh, this sounds like fun!!! Another source for big magnets would be older full height, hard drives. The voice coil magnets in those were pretty powerful as well.

Cub scouts, webelos and made it three weeks in Boy Scouts and could not put up with the click of a-holes that were there. Life is to short to put up with stupid people. My fondest memories of cub scout day camp was the shooting range. Growing up in a farming family, I already had a lot of experience with a rifle at 10 years old. It was fun having a leg up on the city kids for a change!

I just archived a cache because the area had really gone sideways. It was a secluded and quiet area but it seems a couple homeless peoples crept in to live in the catch basin behind the GZ and then there was the generic 'bike sketch' was cruising by every time I checked the cache - it was time to archive this one...

I loved it!!! The narrator's comment about the 'First to find' cacher's was a hoot!

Mace? I would have kept it too!

All this 'Geek Speak' is giving me a hard drive!

Timmy!

Looks like a false plate? If that's it - nice job matching the rust of the original structure!

Something I've found with a couple varieties of duct tape (silver & camo) is the lifting edges and corners can be molded with a lighter. OK, I like to use a torch but it's the same idea... Heat up the corner and press it into a hot pad until it cools off. This also helps anneal all the edges together too. I agree, paint is the best way to go but sometimes "simple, stupid" also needs to be reliable.

You mean the ones that will be worth something? Actually, I keep "Good Luck" coins, Geocaching buttons. For the larger caches, I have P-38 can openers. Kind of sharp but only lethal with a LOT of time and effort.

Yeah, it's a sure bet they were not keeps ships stores in Altoids tins...

Two Cents from a security and network admin - The technique you are describing is a form of 'social engineering' where a data criminal drops CD's or USB sticks labeled with something enticing in a location they know will be picked up and played. It is a surprisingly effective ploy as most people are just curious enough and just careless enough to make this work. When you factor in the fact that most people care more about what is plugged into their home machine but their work PC is the tech guy's problem when it gets trashed. One measure of protection is to turn off autoplay for all drives and this keeps most of the USB malwares from launching but it is not as secure as just not plugging the thing in in the first place...

+1 There are very few areas that I will not go and very few injuries that I am not willing to risk, but caching on someone's front yard always feels a little too invasive for me. I've never felt more anxious caching as I did with someone's yard cache. We left because the uncomfortable was too much to handle. I've left several caches in front of houses too. It's just something that freaks me and my family out having strangers wander around the house so I try to extend the same respect to others. Another type I've passed on is the cache in front of a restaurant window, having all those muggles watching while I lift a lamp skirt or rummage through a bush, no thanks!

I've got the "Geocache Navigator" by Trimble and really like it. I also have a Magellan eXplorist GC and the advantage I see with the Geocache Navigator on my Blackberry is that I can go into a unfamiliar area and find some goodies! If I don't have the time to prep a pocket query for the eXplorist GC then it's no good. Just my 2¢ worth.

Probably some legal implications to using landmines. Wouldn't you have to up the terrain rating to a 5 star?

I know what he meant, and it's called a kilt, not a skirt, but only a Highlander knows for sure what's under it. How do you get the Highlander to stand on the co-ords for that long? I understand, falling down drunk, but sooner or later they will get up and move around...