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CSpenceFLY

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  1. One of the best things you can do is learn to use your GPS on a smaller scale like in your yard. I recommend sitting with the manual for a few hours and just play with the GPS to learn how it functions then mark some spots in your yard and learn to use the features before heading out into the big wide open.

  2. She's up to 16 caches stolen...there must be something that can be done about this Geo-muggler.

     

    You could kill them with kindness which I recommend, orrrrr

     

    mod note: removed inappropriate image.

     

    BASE jumpers use the old tar and feather technique.

     

    I had one of mine stolen and later returned to "teach me a lesson" about rocking the boat. If I wanted to I could prove who did it and call them out but it's not worth it.

  3. It may have very well been a joke, but all it takes is one mischivous prankster(all I could do to keep it clean) to mess things all up.

     

    One very, very busy prankster, I might add. Particularily since he has to stake out all of those cache sites at one time! I mean, he might be able to mess ONE cache up, but you're talking about one prankster messing it ALL up, so he's gonna be one busy guy!

     

    Nice avatar, BTW. :P

     

    They would not have to stake out the cache site to mess things up. They could just go around and collect caches.

  4. I’m amazed at some of the responses. The thought that someone would take an opposing moral stand with some of my terminology never occurred to me.

     

    Murdering the bum was a joke and I’m aware that “bum” is a derogatory statement. When I wrote it, I felt reasonable certain that my comments would be read by very few bums.

     

     

    Funnily enough as soon as I read your post my first response was to quote the 'apart from murdering the bum' bit and say something like, 'seems reasonable under the circumstances'. However I curbed my natural mischievous instincts.

     

    However after reading the thread I will say that there is an objection to the use of the so called 'derogatory' word bum in describing the person, but it is not what has already been pointed out.

     

    The objection is that there was no need to make any observation at all about the person who saw you find the cache, *anyone* seeing you finding/hiding the cache should be cause for concern.

     

    I find it funny that there was objection to using the term bum but not to the thought of murder. Go figure.

  5. I would contact the owner first. Maybe offer to adopt the cache or ask for it to be archived so you can place a new one. If you are not interested in placing a cache there I would not worry about it if they are disabled. The ones that piss me off are the ones that are gone and you can't get the owner to do anything.

  6. I think it's a bad idea to over promote this activity and an even worst idea to take it into the schools. Kids today are disrespectful at best.

     

    I agree. Introduce those who are interested. Maybe even an open house event were those interested can come. But I don't like the idea of general introductions to general people many of whom won't be interested, and some of whom will go on to get some kicks by finding a new venue to cause trouble.

    I fully agree. Had some bad experience with school kids and some of my caches over the summer. All near places where a teacher introduced (forced) kids to Geocaching using my real caches.

     

    As a teacher, I have to routinely "force" my students to do certain things - chemistry labs, chemistry problems, watch chemistry videos. That doesn't make them bad simply because I had them do something I, in my professional capacity, felt was educational in some way.

     

    As for TV vs live - they don't "out" a specific cache in many cases for the class trips. Sometimes they do. Many people in this discussion are saying leave Geocaching.com out of the discussion, and it is almost always mentioned in tv/news articles. We don't see droves of caches destroyed following it being mentioned there, and I don't think you see droves of them being destroyed after a class - maybe ones specifically pointed out, sometimes, but again, I think the risks of getting more people interested outweigh the risks of having an occasional cache muggled, which happens already anyway.

     

    You just made a point against your own opinion.

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