Vernon Twp Crawford County Pa a NON GEOCACHING COMMUNITY?

[+emtfire10]

Ok being the decent geocacher that I am. I have been in the process of getting

ready to place another AGT in Crawford County. I have been looking at the

Crawford County Convention & Visitors Bureau/ Spoke with the Exec Dir for the

CCCVB & have full permission & cooperation of placing a AGT there.

 

Went down on the 30th of Aug, spoke with Erin about it also, we decided to where

the placement would be & so forth. So I went about & shot the cords for the

placement, cme back & started working on the page for it.

 

Now knowing this is considered a "business related cache" & so forth, I shot an

email off to oneof the Moderators asking for his opinion on the proper submit of

this cache. I went down to Vernon Twp Police Dept earlier this AM to explain to

them that I was putting a cache container on the outside of the CCCVB & with

their full cooperation & permission. Along with explaining to what geocaching is

& about the AGT program.

 

Needless to say, I was STONGLY WARNED againist placing such within the

jurisdiction of Vernon Twp Crawford County by the Chief of Police. With his

words of a person will be ARRESTED on the spot if found geocaching in Vernon

Twp, charged with tresspassing & a possible charge of creating a catastrophe

(sp?) if Fire, Ems, Police & the Bomb Squad is called out for such. If a cacher

is caught & arrested (which he admanmently made clear he will arrest them

personally if need be)

 

I explained to him the approx amount of geocaches within the Twp borders & again

he was rather shocked to say the least. He then left the room for a moment as I

spoke with one of their Officers about geocaching & brought back the Twp

Solicitor. I again explained to her what geocaching was & the intent of the AGT

Program. She had stated that she had heard of the program before & was also

notreally sure about it.

 

She had also explained that the Twp would & is completely againist the idea of

geocaching within the Twp borders, becasue they (the Twp Leaders may feel that

we geocachers are trespassing on their property. They would have NO PROBLEM if

the cache was INSIDE a said business though.

 

So needless to say, if anyone is geocaching in Vernon Twp Crawford County (This

includes Rouch Park & the EBT Bike Trails) you are subject to arrest.

 

I went back & explained the problem to Juanita Hampton the Exec Dir of the

Crawford County Convention & Visitors Bureau & agreed upon placing the cache

container inside their office with posted hours of operations & so forth.

 

Now the first question I have is whom or how do I go about with Groundspeak in

getting their permission to place such a cache within the CCCVB?

 

Whom do I speak with?

[+emtfire10]

I also did CLEARLY explain the Police Chief that the container being used WOULD BE a clear lock-n-lock container with the geocaching sticker & proper contact information for on & within.

[+Relheok]

Good luck with that prosecution. This is where the motto, "It's better to ask for forgiveness then to beg for permissions". Then again, depending on how big your county is, just move to the next and make sure at voting time you voice your opinion. Perhaps, more education on GeoCaching would help them.

[+emtfire10]

I did also put this thru our local boards here in NW Pa and needless to say was really happy with the responses there. As I stated to them, I am going to wait until Tuesday to figure out what I am going to do with this cache. I also have a alt spot located if need be.