HicksFam

That's not a very nice thing to do to your fellow geocachers, as they'll be the ones suffering the verbal abuse from the nosey neighbor. Agreed...but some people aren't very nice.

The solicitation and commercial bits of the guidelines so not apply to cache content, only the cache page. Ah, yes, thanks for clearing that up.

Here in England my house borders a woodland area which is owned by the Ministry of Defence and used almost daily for training. On two occasions, we've been looking for a cache only for a soldier to appear from the ground covered in camo gears, gun in hand, and quietly move off to another site. Thankfully they don't use live bullets in training exercises but it still a bit spookey when they suddenly appear in front of you!

My wife and I were discussing this subject only last night - we came to the conclusion that some people might hide a cache somewhere that they know is going to annoy a nosey neighbour, just to harass them. It would be wack of course, but not impossible.

I've made some ice-cream container size cache's reading to hide this weekend. I've taped my business card to the inside of the lid. I figure that there is nothing in the rules against it and as I went through the time to put the cache together, I should be allowed to. EDIT: Just found this in the rules: "Geocaches do not solicit for any purpose. Commercial geocaches are disallowed."