glenn37216

Don't get caught lifting lamp post skirts here in Nashville by Public Works or Nes. They have a zero tolerance policy for disturbance of these since may people have been electrocuted and killed around light poles. There is no "first time warning". It's a straight hefty fine. It's even against the law to staple/tape up yard sale signs to nes/metro poles.

Well I'm confused more than ever now. I'm still not sure how caches can be approved just by assuming one has permission to place a cache along a city highway and or on public right of way property. The reason why I'm asking these questions is because I actually work for Public Works in Nashville. I've had extensive conversations with supervisors in the streets and roads division. They all have told me geocaching can land me a hefty fine if anything is stuck to or placed on city property without permission. This includes guardrails , off the city owned roadway , light pole skirts , water drains inlets , guide wire micro's etc. I guess I'll just stick to the hunting part of geocaching. But then again , they also told me just lifting up a light pole skirt can get you into trouble. Yikes ! Might as well stick to park hides. :/

I've been doing a ton of research to come up with a clever cache placement worthy of 5 stars . Upon my venture of looking at possible placement locations I've learned something startling. Over half of my geocache finds are placed on city property without the proper permission. Daily submissions that are being approved seem to be placed illegally too. According to a supervisor I spoke to that works out of the East Center Public Works Div of Nashville, because of city ordinances only Metro Parks are able to issue Permits for geocaches. I've also spoken to NES supervisors who have told me they will fine you up to $500.00 if you even touch a light pole skirt they own . But yet everyday I continue to search underthem for smileys. Even Metro Water has told me the magnetic cache hides in their curb drains are illegal and are not supposed to be there. Both NES and Metro Public Works have said NOTHING is to be placed on or around CITY owned guardrails or under lightpole skirts because of legality issues. Your not even supposed to tape yardsale signs to Metro/NES poles. It's a 50.00 fine for the 1st offense.. 150.00 fine for the 2nd. I guess my question for the reviewers is how are cache owners getting permission to place along highways , guardrails in water drains when its illegal to do so? Who are their contact references? Are some placements "assumed" that no contact or permission is needed because its city/public owned property?

Wow some great responses here. I decided not to use a well hidden trail cam on my next woodsy cache hide. I was thinking of doing this because of the price of the container I'm going to use and the fact that we have local cache thieves in my area. I see no need to since I have access to remote HD security cams facing the exact cache location and parking GZ cords.

recently , I found 4 klonopin and 2 joints in a prescription drug cache near me . The cache was placed under a lamp post skirt in a known druggie part of town. I emptied the container , signed the log and got the heck outta there as quickly as my dodge journey would take me .

Just wondering peoples thoughts on this subject. I'm thinking of adding a trail cam out in front of my next cache placement. I think it would be kinda fun to see peoples reactions and what not . it also may deter cache thieves in the process. Is it ok to mount a trail cam as long as its posted in the cache description ? Any incite is greatly appreciated ! Glenn37216

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Is this something that is against Groundspeak's geo guidelines? Just curious because I've seen geocoins and TB's magically appear in my own cache hide that are not supposed to be there. Any opinions ? >