Kacky

It was good intentions until he started letting people log the find when they did not find the cache. Then it became cheating, and downright hurtful to people who ARE there and DID find it..

I'm supposed to be retired from radio, but now that it's easy & cheap to work from home, I do a little bit of freelance for a local AM news radio station. The news director is feeling a little burned out lately and did not want to try to fill all the newscasts for Memorial Day, so he basically just handed them over to me. 8 miinutes total airtime - an unprecedented luxury on commercial radio. I wasn't sure I could fill it, but when I got rolling, it turned out I had to leave things out! The station is already doing lots of great veterans' and memorial programming, so guess what I decided to tackle?? I also submitted it to the news page, for what it's worth. It's HERE if you'd care to listen.

Not only are they over there giving their lives to save our flabby butts, but they can't even take a break to claim a geocaching find because it's also been claimed by people who aren't even there? Yeah, real supportive.

Guess that makes it all right. Carry on. How cynical, to use our troops as an excuse to pad numbers.

If the bug has reasonable instructions and it will be fun to help it on its journey, I go for it but I don't expect every owner to be having fun with it . edited to remove unkind remarks

Okay, I have to ask. . . Does anyone know what "DRR" means? Is it a team name? Does it have occult significance, perhaps a code needed to attain the 37th degree initiation in the Ancient and Sacred Order of Upright Freemasons, Scottish Rite, Fifth Convocation, Fourth Synod, Third Conference, 22nd Revision? LOL @ your funny take on the longish names! As a present and past presiding officer of one of the Masonic bodies, I wish it WAS that exotic! OK, back on topic - I'd delete their logs too. Play the game, people! I would also wonder, if they're in that much of a hurry, what kind of environmental damage are they doing?

Sorry, I really thought they were the reason for the thread.

There's no nudity in the above-posted nipshots either, but some people will find them offensive because they serve to remind us that if you're a woman, it does not matter what you accomplish in life. The only thing that matters is how attractive you are to immature men. I personally am not offended because I appreciate the reality check.

I never talk about it at work. I work in the news business and it seems (locally speaking) that the more publicity, the worse it gets. All county forest preserves are off limits to caches unless you have a permit and pay an annual fee. Besides, most reporters I know are a little aloof and would never risk good shoes looking for a Rubbermaid container of quarters, McToys and golf balls. I've debated that one with myself and I think our area can handle it. There's a travel bug that's MIA that was launched with instructions to get geocaching on the news. The bug has been stolen, but I'm doing a story anyway and it airs on Memorial Day. Here

Every cache will be visited by its share of people who don't care about stealth or who will beat on the cache site. So we really need to keep them in mind when choosing a spot. I sure wouldn't want to be on the toity and have a bunch of hooligans come crashing around looking for a cache, or lurking about waiting for me to get out of the way.

I have to tell them, because they wonder why I keep showing up at Eastern Star meetings in an evening gown with twigs in my hair.

Or maybe 26 bucks. Don't forget a souvenir item too, like a laminated card with the name of the cache and the date placed.

It's been my experience that when you introduce a new concept to some people, they will become sarcastic as a defense because they're embarrassed that they didn't know. So..... you're welcome.

Hear, hear!

So has rape. Don't mean we gotta put up with it.

LOL Oh my goodness, does everyone who comments on your looks want to have sex with you? To be honest, most women don't say anything. When I'm talking to them, they are always looking at my bicepts and I have to remind them "Hey! My eyes are up here!". It's generally the women who work construction that are the biggest problem. It's like a curse, isn't it?

LOL Oh my goodness, does everyone who comments on your looks want to have sex with you?

I have a right not to be propositioned by a stranger in the first place. That's a threat of sexual assault. In my state it's illegal. Sex in public is illegal too. Kacky, you may not like it, and you may wish to claim that it is illegal, but in our culture, women get propositioned all the time, and in all kinds of places, including by strangers. Why suddenly get so huffy only when it is a male being propositioned? Is it okay when it happens to others but not when it happens to your own gender? Personally, I agree with Headybrew that if and when you are propositioned, all you need to do is make clear that you are not interested. That kind of reply has always worked for me, regardless of the gender of the person who had propositioned me. In more than one case when propositioned by people of both sexes, once I had made clear that I was not interested in sex, we ended up getting into some very interesting conversations and had some fascinating dialogues. What it all boils down to for me is that people are just humans, even if they just propositioned me two minutes ago. Of course, I tend to be very comfortable with myself and with my boundaries, and thus -- except when I am having one of my grouchy, evil anti-social days -- I really do not mind being propositioned by people (or by space aliens ), regardless of their gender. It is quite easy to smile in reply and say "No, thanks!" Maybe it's not obvious I am a woman? Thought the icon would give it away. Anyway, I suppose if it is ok to have that happen to you, you can smile about it and say "no, thanks". Even if it is a person who would go away when told "no", it's not ok for me, to be asked. It's not the same as being offered a piece of gum. I don't see this as a thread about homosexuality.

I have a right not to be propositioned by a stranger in the first place. That's a threat of sexual assault. In my state it's illegal. Sex in public is illegal too.

We're talking about broad daylight, and someone following me trying to have sex, or running into people who are, kinda IS my business.

Following is NOT ok. And imagine if they knew his nickname was Cowboy X!

Maine, right now before bug season and while the tree cover is relatively light.

I don't mind PDA's (none of my business actually) but my tolerence ends at the same phase it would for heteros. The police need to hear complaints often. A letter to the editor of the newspaper might be in order too. That's what it took to get a crackdown on our local one. It only takes one day a year for the cops to do a sweep and publicly i-d the ones they catch. You'd be SURPRISED at some of the names. Being gay has nothing to do with it. Why should anyone enjoy a Cloak of secrecy and be allowed to hijack public places?

You are right, when you tell it to waymark, it waymarks the exact spot where you are standing. After you punch in the GC number, use the "down" button (2nd button down on the left side) to highlight the co-ordinates at the very bottom of the screen. Then press "enter", which is the third, or biggest, button on the left side. Now you can use "down" and "enter" to punch in the latitude and longitude of the cache, for instance N 44 05.858 W 070 13.442 which is a cache just north of you in Lewiston. Keep at it! It does get easier! The cable is a nice thing to have. Mine didn't come with one, but someone had an extra one they gave me. These cachers are a generous bunch! With the cable, you just press a couple buttons on your computer keyboard and it loads the co-ords instantly. Someone told me they run about 35 bucks. It's good for me because I am scatterbrained and I punch in the wrong numbers sometimes. Hope to see you out there!

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