What Is A Muggler?

[lostandfound4]

We are very new to this. What is a muggler?

[bogleman]

A sometimes negative term used for non geocachers - the uninformed.

 

start here?

Edited March 14, 2006 by bogleman

[+mizdeeds]

We are very new to this. What is a muggler?

Muggles are those poor souls who haven't yet discovered this wonderful sport!!

 

Edited March 14, 2006 by mizdeeds

[+Renegade Knight]

A muggle is a non cacher, typically in the vicinity of a cache.

 

A muggled cache is one that has been taken.

 

A muggler is the random person who took the cache.

 

A cache maggot is a repeat offender.

[+Renegade Knight]

Some people get muggles wrong and call it mugglers.

 

"Watch out there are mugglers around" So it could be that as well.

[+Team GPSaxophone]

We are very new to this. What is a muggler?

Muggler is a term used by people that didn't read the glossary correctly. The correct term is "Muggle"

It comes from the Harry Potter books but in our world means "non-cacher"

[+BlueDeuce]

 

Ruedi Muggler

 

From a long line of Mugglers. (Note: In the woods and no GPS!)

Edited March 14, 2006 by BlueDeuce

[+Prime Suspect]

Some people get muggles wrong and call it mugglers.

 

"Watch out there are mugglers around" So it could be that as well.

You're right that muggler is wrong. Here's how I think it came about.

 

The original term was "muggle". Later, people started to refer to caches that had been stolen or vandalized as having been "muggled". People who heard the term "muggled", but were unfamiliar with the original "muggle", assumed that the people who "muggled" must therefor be "mugglers".

[+tozainamboku]

You're right that muggler is wrong. Here's how I think it came about.

 

The original term was "muggle". Later, people started to refer to caches that had been stolen or vandalized as having been "muggled". People who heard the term "muggled", but were unfamiliar with the original "muggle", assumed that the people who "muggled" must therefor be "mugglers".

 

I like RKs other response as well.

 

Early on in the sport someone wanted to have a name for the those people who would see you wandering around staring at a GPSr while searching for the cache and wondered what you were doing. The word muggle was suggested. This word was taken from the Harry Potter books where it refers to an ordinary person who isn't a wizard.

 

Sometime muggles find caches accidently. Usually they just sign the log but sometimes they take the cache. Perhaps the muggle is the gardener or groundskeeper and thinks they are removing trash, or perhaps some kids found a hidden treasure and take it. Soon caches that went missing were said to have been muggled.

 

But, as in Harry Potter, they are evil wizards. On a few occasions, there have been people that use the GC.com website and GPSr to find caches and remove them. Sometime they are land managers who are removing caches placed without permission but in other cases they are simply maggots.

 

Other than maggot there is no (accepted) term for muggles the remove a cache either due to ignorance or in some official capacity. Perhaps as RK suggests, muggler could be used here.

[+Sputnik 57]

The OP has the answer, but I didn't want this thread to go without a link to GeoLex - The Lexicon of Geocaching.

[+Airmapper]

Sometimes they can be easy to identify.

[+Miragee]

And sometimes people tell you who they are:

 

 

[+Polar B's]

 

But, as in Harry Potter, they are evil wizards.

Ok, not to be picky here, but the original context of muggle in Harry Potter is a non magical person, not a evil wizard.

 

To stay on topic, Muggle => a non geocacher

Edited March 14, 2006 by Polar B's

[+BlueDeuce]

 

But, as in Harry Potter, they are evil wizards.

Ok, not to be picky here, but the original context of muggle in Harry Potter is a non magical person, not a evil wizard.

 

To stay on topic, Muggle => a non geocacher

 

I had to read that twice too. He meant cache mugglers.

[+tozainamboku]

 

But, as in Harry Potter, they are evil wizards.

Ok, not to be picky here, but the original context of muggle in Harry Potter is a non magical person, not a evil wizard.

 

To stay on topic, Muggle => a non geocacher

 

I had to read that twice too. He meant cache mugglers.

 

I meant to point out that cache maggots, unlike muggles, know about geocaching and are likely to be using a GPSr to find the caches they steal or loot.

[+Team GPSaxophone]

 

But, as in Harry Potter, they are evil wizards.

Ok, not to be picky here, but the original context of muggle in Harry Potter is a non magical person, not a evil wizard.

 

To stay on topic, Muggle => a non geocacher

I think he meant "...there are evil wizards"

 

but those wouldn't be muggles, since muggles are non-magic people