sacred6

I know this thread is rediculous!

? is that a real song?

I feel irrational so confrentational to tell the truth i am getting away with (murder) caching!

I have no clue.

oh boulevard wats bleeped up(never mind)

I need to calculate what creates my own madness and I'm addicted to your punishment and your the master and I am waiting for disaster!

Guess I better go to church on Sunday.

we need papa roach! Just kidding to much cursing.

Naw! Just a lot of time to waste and I don't like TV very much. The boat thing, yes I should have been, although we were going on shore in 3 feet of water

There needs to be a official geocache song or at least a adopted song to geocaching. What do you guys think?

I lurk around on the prowl like a fox looking to get away with murder!

also Confucious you are like everywhere in the forums do you have like teleportation powers or something?

Let’s discuss the common themes that lead to angst here in the forums, at events, and between hiders and finders. (Please add to the list. There are far more misconceptions than I have time to list.) Can't decide whether I disagree or not. Feel free to disagree, but this is how I see it: The Basics Geocaching boiled down is just high tech hide and seek. It’s nothing more or less. To play, you or someone else hides some sort of container (usually, but not always) with a log book of some kind using a GPS receiver. The hider is expected to do so while staying within the guidelines set by geocaching.com to get their cache listed here. A volunteer reviewer will publish or deny the cache based on the guidelines. Then comes the fun part… A finder chooses to hunt the cache. If they find it, they sign the log book and if the cache has trade items, they make a trade if they so choose. The finder then has the choice of writing about their adventure online, but they don’t have to. The Basic Misconceptions: Most of the misconceptions I see with regard to geocaching seem to come from a sense of entitlement from both hider’s and finders and no small amount of unrealistic expectation. Hiding: Some folks think that the hider owes them some sort of adventure that they couldn’t get at home on the couch eating popcorn and watching a movie, or playing a video game. (I.E. A beautiful view, a fantastic location… In short, something they couldn’t find doing any other activity.) The hider in fact doesn’t OWE you anything except to be honest in hiding a cache within the posted guidelines. That’s it. Many caches exist to do nothing more than to give the hider one more hide number and the finder one find number and there’s nothing at all wrong with that as long as the guidelines are followed. Finding: Some cache owners are very proud of the effort, time, and expense that they put into their caches and rightly so. However, the finder’s online account of their find is NOT interest paid on the hider’s expense. The hider is not, in fact, owed anything except a decent attempt to rehide their cache after you found it. They chose to hide a cache as a means to participate. That’s all. The fact that folks do participate in finding it should be enough. Even if a cache merits long descriptive logs from most finders, it’s unfair to hold every finder to that standard unless there’s a clearly stated logging requirement (for whatever reason) which is the owner’s prerogative. Trackables: A travel bug/released geocoin/Jeep is just a thing that has been cast out upon the geocaching continuum to fend for itself. It is also a hapless pawn to chance. It is private property that has been placed in public trust. Whatever is attached to the TB tag belongs to the TB owner and no one else. The value of a TB is relative to the person who released it and the person holding it. The positive rule of thumb here is to hope for the best and expect/accept the worst. The Trackable Misconceptions: Again, most of the misconceptions I see with regard to trackable items seem to come from a sense of entitlement and unrealistic expectation from both owner’s and interested parties. If a TB is private property that has been placed in public trust and also a hapless pawn to chance, then many, mannny TB owners either can’t, or won’t, accept that they have taken a gamble on releasing their trackable item and also don’t realize that “Public Trust” is an oxymoron. When you gamble and lose in the real world you either quit, or pony up for more disappointment in hopes of a win. Anything more is unrealistic. Perception IS reality. The fact remains that our perceptions of geocaching change with experience, but the guidelines for how it's played change much slower. As yet, the guidelines and very few rules that exist don't seem to support the sense entitlement and unrealistic expectation that causes so much angst. So, that's all I had time for, but I believe that the subjects I mentioned are the root of ALL geocaching related angst. I'll leave the branches to those that care to discuss. Whether you agree or disagree let's hear what you think.....

I s'pect that's because you're only 13. Probably.

You get some sort of points or special award for that, don't you? And I think the rules have something about double points awarded if you can kill someone with a micro. Maybe leave a live scorpion as the FTF prize in a film canister! YOu think thats funny? THAT IS DANGEROUS. Children go on these geocaches and have a great time. Yet we have sick deviants like you that try to make this some kind of cuthroat activity. If I wanted to do that I would go join a gladitorial battle with a bunch of sick freaks like you so I could eviscerate all of you fools and stick you up on spikes. Does that entertain you? ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED <Edited by moderator to remove potty language.> well im only 13 and I go on caches out in middle of areas were cars are rushing past me and I don't care.

I have had a similer experiance were people were jumping fences, walking around near the school in our subdivision, and other stuff. I have been thinking these guys maybe have drugs around there. I think you should probably report them.

what do you do when you get a email about your pocket query and it has no results and you check it and it has no errors?

Thanks!

No, but I think another good place for one of these would be madagascar.

I, being a new cacher would like to know whether or not you can make your own travel bugs.

What do u mean some1 elses possesion?

I know i have also been confused with that. You are not alone Deuce.

I would like 2 know the difference between grabbing,finding, and discovering a travel bug.

Yeah i think cowboy may be right. Sorry fellows!

also how many warnings u get?