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I loved that line. I reckon folks in Waynseboro have a history of blowing up scragly oak trees in closed business parks. I caught that one too. I was wondering what the heck gave them reasonable cause that a Christmas ornament looking coke bottle in a tree in a deserted business park was explosive in nature. Odd, maybe...but explosive? Oh, it was "Based on their experience, knowledge and training ....."

This is not a laughing matter! HOW TO MAKE A COKE BOMB

Well, I guess I too would be alarmed if I was out for a walk and came across one of these hanging from a tree. COKE BOMB

My sentiments exactly!

Oops - double post!

That's a very pretty location! Don't know that I can match it but I have a couple of puzzle caches placed around Lake Arcadia in central Oklahoma - B-P's Legacy! and Imperial Defence! - you can't go too wrong with a lakeside view!

I absolutely LOVE his line where he says, "it's called electrical tape because it conducts electricity." OMG!!! Be sure to check out his video on Cool, but I like THIS one the best!

Just broke the tie!

From gc.com's cache placement guidelines: Mystery or Puzzle Caches For many caches of this type, the coordinates listed are not of the actual cache location but a general reference point, such as a nearby parking location. Unless a good reason otherwise can be provided, the posted coordinates should be no more than 1-2 miles (2-3 kilometres) away from the true cache location. This allows the cache to show up on the proper vicinity searches and to keep the mileage of Trackables that find their way into the cache reasonably correct.

Sounds to me that the issue you're having is less about puzzle caches and more about you wanting to know where every cache in Jersey is hidden. Unlike many of us, you live in a location where it's still possible for someone to have found every cache in the area (most of us gave up on that idea a long time ago!) and the fact that you haven't is causing frustration. But face it, if you've found every cache there is, what new challenge is there for you? You'll just be sitting around your computer waiting for that new cache that you didn't hide to pop up. So, no offense, but saying that you don't want to put the effort into finding a new hiding place because it COULD get rejected seems like a bit of a cop out to me.

Well, you can't have your cake and eat it too. If you're expanding the spacing restrictions yourself (and I'm not referring to you personally), you're likely to run out of territory a lot faster! Seems as though there may be a need for a mindshift in your caching area.

Work cutting, yard ignoring, wife pleading, cop explaining, muggle swearing, thorn bleeding, tick flicking, bushwhacking, the list goes on .........

Yeah, I think everyone should wait to log online until the FTF logs. Then folks will be showing up hoping to be MEFF and the logbook is half full. Hey, the same sorta thing happened to me yesterday but I jumped the queue and logged FTF anyway - SEE LOG HERE! To the OP, don't let experiences like this get to you. Geocaching is an activity with guidelines instead of rules that people choose to interpret and play very differently (how many times has that been said?). Just take pride in your own accomplishments, give a little bit back to the sport, and you won't go wrong.

Just stumbled upon your thread, read it in its entirety, then spent an interesting few minutes on the internet and on Google Map Search. Here's what I've discovered: 1. The Bailiwick of Jersey has a 48.1 mile coastal path that circles the island. 2. A majority of caches on the island are placed in coastal locations with pockets of concentration on the south and southwest coasts, fewer on the east, north, and west coasts, and a scattering across the middle. 3. There are a total of 21 Unknown caches on the island (14 of which you've already logged and 2 of which you own) leaving 5 potential "trouble" caches with which to contend. Now, ASSUMING these 5 Unknown caches are all placed in scenic coastal locations, that would potentially eliminate no more than 0.5 miles of prime coastline (at an average distance of 0.1 mile from the shore) for placing a new cache. Therefore, the chances of your intended new cache(s) conflicting with one of these 5 Unknown caches would seem to me to be pretty slim. Of course, since you do have a finite geographic area to deal with, this is a situation that is likely to get worse (from your point of view) rather than improve. So, here are a question and a suggestion I have for you: QUESTION Have you actually had a cache rejected because the co-ords were reportedly within 0.1 mile of an Unknown? If the answer is YES, then you were probably just unfortunate. If the answer is NO, then your concern would seem to be without merit. If you've NOT submitted a cache for review then you might have a problem dealing with rejection. SUGGESTION Rather than sit around and complain about not knowing where these 5 Unknown caches are hidden, get out there and place a few more caches of your own before all the really good real estate is taken! P.S. There are some good-looking spots on that there north coast you might want to check out!

Here are a couple of recent threads on this topic - I'm sure you'll enjoy the second one! What's in your geocaching bag? Geoarsenal

Here's one! Pocket Monsters!

This guy

Yeah, what gives?

Do you leave your mark on the cache, and how do you open them ammo cans?

Only just saw this post but aren't you being a tad facetious? I can clearly recall my state of mind in February 2005, and can assure you that I was being entirely earnest. I have followed my own advice, and am far more abstemious today than I was then. I guess what I meant to say was "Weren't you being a tad facetious?"

Hmmm, somebody didn't do a thorough job of altering last year's rules! How to Play: Check back here each month to find out what goal has been established for the Jeep 4x4 Geocaching Challenge for that month! Once you find a participating Red Rock Crystal Pearl Jeep Commander Travel Bug, write down the tracking number that is stamped on the metal tag. Take a photo of your travel bug with the goal for the monthly contest in the photo. Visit http://geocaching.com to create a user account Visit http://jeep.geocaching.com and enter in the tracking number to visit the web page for the green Jeep Travel Bug you found Upload the photo to the green Jeep Travel Bug’s page to submit your entry. NOTE: If the Red Rock Crystal Pearl Jeep Commander Travel Bug is not in the cache when you arrive, take a picture of your GPS unit showing the coordinates of the cache and take a SECOND picture completing the monthly goals to enter. Then visit http:/jeep.geocaching.com, visit the listing for the cache page that the green Travel Bug was not in, link to the Travel Bug page and submit your entry.

Only just saw this post but aren't you being a tad facetious?

Yeah, what happened to Lauren in the end?

This log for "Oklahoma's Lamest Cache" (a lamp post cache, since archived) had me in stitches! The hider was Darkmoon, the finder was Kand. "I found this cache on a sweltering hot summer day (actually it was cloudy and kinda rainy). The choice of hide site itself was ingenious, as who else but Darkmoon could have been sensitive enough and intuitive enough -- indeed, enough of a poet and artisan -- to have realized that every lamppost in this parking lot needed a microcache in its base in order to achieve its highest order of spiritual and inner fulfillment in its time on earth? And who else but Darkmoon could have, and would have, been courageous enough to respond to the heartfelt cry of this lamppost for a microcache of its very own, and who else would have been strong enough and resourceful enough -- and creative enough -- to have found this magnificent 35mm film canister, and lovingly crafted it into a cache container, and then lovingly and religiously placed it in such a daring and scintillating spot, a spot so magical, so special, that my eyes fill with tears as I write this log entry, just as they did in that sacred and holy parking lot earlier this afternoon, whence and where those beneficent tears mixed with the sweat on my face on that hot summer afternoon, and then those sacred tears of joy and love streamed off my face and bathed the tiny paper logbook as I prepared to return it to its magical 35mm canister, its special chalice, then to return it lovingly to its special designated altar, its resting spot where it can lie nestled in safety, guarded by the noble tall cylindrical sentinel known generically to the heathens and the uninitiated as a "lamp post" but known to any true red-blooded and sincere geocacher as a "Sentinel of microcache guardianship with attendant beacon of yellowish-white light from GE 5169Y sodium vapor lamp at apex". And, after I had replaced the sacred vessel inside the sacred altar known as "Sentinel of microcache guardianship with attendant beacon of yellowish-white light from GE 5169Y sodium vapor lamp at apex", I fell to my knees, overcome with joy and awe, and I prayed to the Holy Lame Urban 35mm Microcache, thanking it for its beneficence, and thanking it for its blessing, and then, further overcome by its magnificence and by my comparative shallowness and banality and unworthiness, not to mention my sins, I cast my torso upon the hot scorching pavement, wailing and crying and screaming, and flailing my fists against the hot unyielding pavement, now covered with the blood of my righteous and wrathful self-directed fury, at the injustice that one so unworthy as I should have dared to have touched a sacred Lame Urban Micro 35mm Film Canister, and with the thought that I had -- without the requisite 22 hours of prior cleansing and fasting -- also dared to approach its sacred altar, known as a "Sentinel of microcache guardianship with attendant beacon of yellowish-white light from GE 5169Y sodium vapor lamp at apex", in the first place. And, so finally, my homage to the sacred cache was complete, and satiated and bloody, yet filled with bliss and joy at this exposure to The Sacred and The Holy, I returned to my car. Signed logbook with tears and blood, took nothing, left five $100 bills as a small token of my offering to this cache and to the Lame Urban micro 35mm Film Canister Cache Gods. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this wonderful cache and religious icon, and for this chance to once again worship the Demigod of Lame Urban 35mm Microcaches. Thank you Darkmoon!"

Yes, but some great pics there you must agree!