JASTA 11
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I cast my vote for 'Technu'. It's produced by Oak-n-Ivy Brand. When the Mrs gets PI it's serious. Last time, she ended up in the hospital. Me, I could practically roll around in it without much trouble. It has two parts, the first is your standard clear calamine lotion, the other (the best part) is the Technu. It removes the irritating oils before they can mess you up. Works on skin, clothes, dogs, ect. You can find it at most any pharmacy.
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I was doing a lengthy multi in a state forest near my house. It was raining, but I really wanted to ride my new mountain bike. On my way to stage four I found myself going downhill on the path. Across the path, up ahead was a fallen tree. It would need about eight inches to clear it. So as I got close I pulled up on the handlebars, and they just rotated in my hands. The mounting bolt was loose. So, needless to say I didn't get over the log, but I almost made it over the handlebars. I would have cleared both if it wasn't for my groin impacting the steering column.
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We found a cache once that had an animal skull (pretty sure it was an opossum) in it. Talk about a cruddy trade item. Got hit with a nasty stench when I opened the container. Darn thing stunk to high heaven!
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Thanks Isonzo, all of them look great. I'm gonna try to get them all. My wife will probably divorce me
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I have to laugh!
That would be some justice!
What comes around, goes around. What a creep. 
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I'm deaf in my right ear, but only when I'm driving with my wife.
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We'll be in the area this October. It's been a few years since we've visited there. We're looking for some suggestions from you local folks for caches with a nice hike or paddle involved. No urban micros or magnets please. I've hunted around on the website and found a few interesting ones, but you can't always judge just by looking at the cache page. Any recommendations are greatly appreciated.
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I'm not a fan of these roadside memorials, but I still wouldn't look at it as another smiley for my stats. In my opinion, playing a game at the site of somebody's demise is insensitive and disrespectful.
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We've come across a couple of shanty-towns while caching in SW Florida.
While setting up our latest paddle cache we came across a 35mm camera. Film still in it, but ruined.
The worst was while doing some CITO on a canoe trip we pulled out a grocery bag with dead kittens in it. Some people just plain suck.
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Short and sweet: If this goof had an issue with the placement, why didn't he just email the owner first. Posting hate notes on the cache page and (possibly) stealing a cache is just malicious.
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That's a pretty [bad] thing to do. Unfortunately, there's not much can be done unless they are caught in the act doing something like this. People like this are spineless little vermin who hide in the anonymity of this website.
[Potty language edited by moderator.]
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Having read the postings I think that this clown has some real issues. Mental issues. I don't believe that he is any sort of Official GC.com Reviewer. I'm of the opinion that 'The General' is a sock puppet for another user. The General (or whoever he's speaking for), with his grand total of five finds, has taken it upon himself to be the local "Geo-cop". It doesn't matter that your caches were reviewed and approved, he knows how to review them better! Maybe he thinks he should be the local Reviewer.
There are a couple bad elements like him in my area, one of whom berated a friend of mine about some penny-ante crap so much that my friend isn't hiding caches anymore.
Anyone who truely appreciates this sport would find a much better way of giving constructive criticism.
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It's not uncommon to encounter them while caching in Florida. We were caching in the Naples area and came upon a shanty-town not far from a busy intersection. I had two small kids with me so we left. It's just another 'situational awareness' thing that you have to keep in mind down there.
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There's one guy in my area who posts these huge, self-centered, ego-laden dissertations in his logs. He'll also email you after finding your cache and criticize. He acts like some sort of 'Cache-Cop', saving the world of geocaching. People like this are just on some huge ego trip. It's better to just let them go on and ignore it. If you can see that he's an a**, so can everyone else. It's not personal.
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It's more for geocoins that TBs. People like to "collect" the icons. People discovering my TBs hasn't been a problem with me. I haven't noticed many people doing so.
Now my coins are a different story. I have one geocoin that I knew was in CA and suddenly all these "discovered" notifications were pouring in from an event in FL
. It seems that my coin's tracking number was on a printed list that was circulated at the event. I just don't get the point of that.You haven't even seen the coin and the only thing you discovered was a number on a piece of paper.
If that's the case, perhaps you should delete the logs. I think I would.
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You don't have to go west of the Mississippi for some great adventure caches...come to Florida (in the winter) and hunt for:
or Red Scorpion
or Where the Green Fern Grows one of the few caches in Florida where you need a staff to deal with the steepness of the terrain
or
by the way, anybody coming to the Tampa area i could get set up to do Multiple Gators in a heartbeat... kayaks r us.
We'll be around Clearwater in October. I'll keep that one in mind. Thanks!
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If you are in Boston (BOS), there's really only one cache you can realistically do. You don't need a cab ride for this one, just the airport bus to the subway, then take the subway one stop inbound, then it's a short walk. There are other caches that are closer in straight-line distance, but Logan Airport is on a penninsula, so you'd have to run down one of the taxiways and jump in the harbor and swim across to do them.
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As my father used to tell me: "If you can only do one thing, then do it well."
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In this game as in a lot of games...The only person you are cheating, is yourself!
Absolutely right. Last year I was out in central Missouri for business and was researching some local caches. Looking at the logs, I noticed that a cache owner was logging his own caches as 'finds' multiple times! Every time he did maintenance, or dropped off a TB-logged as a find. This guy also listed several benchmarks as finds, even though the benchmarks were listed as destroyed back as far as the 1970's. At first it made me angry, then I realized that if I figured this out, so could others in the local caching community. He's just making a fool of himself. So knowing this I would add: The only one you are impressing is yourself.
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I'm one of the lucky ones who doesn't seem to ever get it, but my wife is the exact opposite. She ended up in the hospital a few years ago from it. There's a product, I believe it's called 'Renew'(?), anyway it comes in two parts:one large bottle with the standard calamine-like lotion, and a smaller bottle that has a lotion to use right after you think you've been exposed to the PI. It removes the oils before they can irritate. It'll work on your dog too, before he passes it on to you.
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A short drive north to the LBJ Grasslands will get you to a pretty area with quite a few hiking caches.
Texas Double is the 2nd oldest cache in the state and is near the center of the Grasslands. Don't let the name fool you, the grasslands are quite hilly.
I'll be sure to check it out. thanks for the suggestion!
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I'm visiting the Fort Worth area soon and was looking for a few good caches to hunt. I'll be staying north of the city off of I-35W near Alliance. I'm hoping to find something 'Off the beaten path' aka: no micros in lamp posts or guard rails. Micros are okay, if there's a decent hike or historical site involved. I'm hoping for something to remember. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated! Thanks.
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[so what you're saying is, basically is, whenever some idiot calls in a bomb threat on a hospital, petty crimes like vandalism, littering and trespass become SUPER FELONIES for an indeterminate number of miles around?
i really don't see the logic behind an unsubstantiated (no doubt anonymous) complaint changing the response to an incident that no one has any reason to believe is related.]
Now, now. It's not polite to put words into other peoples mouths there kitty cat! The man ran out of the building, told the guard "Today will be a very bad day". Minutes later, a package was discovered. It had wires and all the trappings of a pipe-bomb. Soon after, the reports of the very classy middle finger-pointing 'Lite-Brites' started coming in. The suspect from the pipe bomb has been arrested and arraigned. So much for anonymity. How would you expect the police to react in this day and age? If they blew all this off and something did happen, I'd bet you'd be amongst the first to call the talk shows, or blog, crying about why the government didn't do more. I hate big government as much as anybody, but for once, I'm glad they responded like they did. Even if it's for some dumb stunt a big corportation paid a couple of losers . What do those two care anyway? It's not like they pay taxes.
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I can't believe some of the people out there. Just a prank, a marketing stunt? What most of the people don't realize is that when these 'things' were first reported, there was a bomb threat at a local hospital, with a suspect telling a security guard 'Today will be a very bad day'. In addition, there were reports from another city of toxic fumes in a subway. So what are the emergency management agencies to think? I'd rather have them err on the side of caution. What would all the bleeding hearts have to say if something had happened? Turner is to blame as well as the two imbeciles who placed them. Someone earlier wrote that they aren't surprised since we're the same ones who keep re-electing Ted Kennedy. They're right, I can't argue that. Teddy couldn't care less about bombs in Boston, he's bombed in Boston more often than not.
What comes around, goes around. What a creep. 
. It seems that my coin's tracking number was on a printed list that was circulated at the event. I just don't get the point of that.
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No music. Just whatever sounds are there. No cars, radios, nothing. We avoid most things urban.