+Treasure Hunters Inc. Posted February 11, 2003 Posted February 11, 2003 The Surgeon General has announced that geocaching without common sense, a stick to prod with, anti-venom kit, goggles/safety glasses, a helmet, safety shoes, and rubber gloves, may be hazardous to your health. $1000 Bill geocaching is living in a 30 foot circle Quote
+briansnat Posted February 11, 2003 Posted February 11, 2003 quote:The problem doesn't arise from the hollow that has the cache in it, it is from the hollows that are investigated by people looking for cache's because they look like "likely" hiding spots. Since I started visiting this forum, I've seen posts complaining about the dangers of caches in urban parks, underwater, near cliffs, near roads, in trees, caves, in tick infested areas, among litter, near broken glass and more. Now we have someone who is sounding the alarm about hollow logs and stumps. Maybe I should just forget about this sport. It's too darn dangrerous. I guess I'll have to stick with skiing, whitewater canoeing and playing goalkeeper in an indoor soccer league (you wanna talk dangerous, try the last one!). I'm sure Mr. White Rhino means well, but he's just another example of those who are trying to make our world a safe and vanilla one, with foam bumpers on every surface. I'm willing to bet that way more geocachers have been hurt by stumbling over logs, or in car accidents on their way to the cache site, than have been bitten by an animal while reaching into a hollow tree. I've read hundreds, if not thousands, of logs and have yet to read of such an incident. I'm not going to say it won't or can't happen, but it's a relatively minor risk and one that can be greatly reduced by using little common sense. Taking a shower is probably more dangerous statistically speaking. A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. -Barry Goldwater Quote
+Bluespreacher Posted February 11, 2003 Posted February 11, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Mopar: quote:Originally posted by Mr. Snazz:I'm not trying to start a fight, but... if the numbers "don't matter", why is it that they are so often brought in to play in order to discredit a poster? Actually, I don't think I've EVER said the numbers don't have some effect on things. I think to some extent they DO matter, and I've never been afraid to say it. Experience matters in everything else we do, why not geocaching? Go on a job interview and tell them that experience doesn't matter. Lets see if they hire you as the new CEO even though your fresh from that pizza delivery job and you don't actually even know what CEO stands for, but it pays 1.2mil a year, so you can do it! I think the guy who was last running the Fortune 500 Co is more qualified then the delivery boy. I think that someone who has only found 1,2,or 8 geocaches in his life is probably not qualified to tell people with 50, 100, or 1000 cache finds what the best way to hunt/hide a cache is. Everyone is new once. I'm still learning. I sure know after finding 2 caches I wasn't qualified to tell people how they should hide a cache, or what the best GPS is for caching. Know what? After 125 finds I'm STILL not qualified to tell someone how they should hide a cache, or what GPS is the best. I think I can offer other people opinions based on my experiences, but thats just it, MY OPINION. If you have virtually no experience geocaching, what makes you think your qualified to say "hiding caches here is wrong", "GPS A is better for caching then GPS B", or "I'm writing a book/movie/play about how to geocache"? + _Tae-Kwon-Leap is not a path to a door, but a road leading forever towards the horizon. _ I agree with everything you said. I hope you (and I ) get over this cold! Bluespreacher "We've got the hardware and the software, the plans and the maps ..." -- Citizen Wayne Kramer Quote
+Bluespreacher Posted February 11, 2003 Posted February 11, 2003 quote:Originally posted by jeff35080:Okay.... if hollow trees are bad, how 'bout an area that is stalked by a masked, machette yeilding, invincible maniac? Look here: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=53735 Jeff http://www.StarsFellOnAlabama.com http://www.NotAChance.com If you hide it, they will come.... Sounds like a great cache ... but so far away! Keep on caching, Bluespreacher "We've got the hardware and the software, the plans and the maps ..." -- Citizen Wayne Kramer Quote
+wimseyguy Posted February 11, 2003 Posted February 11, 2003 reply to this thread with sarcasm, know it allness, or silly walks. Do get out there and have fun and be careful. These changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes; Nothing remains quite the same. Through all of the islands and all of the highlands, If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane Quote
+OzzieSan Posted February 11, 2003 Posted February 11, 2003 quote:These are the concerns people in my line of work have with caching and why many of them choose not to allow geocaching on the lands they manage. And what about all the other activities? Hiking, climbing, boating, cycling... Are they also not allowed because of the hazards involved? Anything you do in the great outdoors comes with some risk but yet we always seem to single out geocaching! quote:And yes, more that one park visitor has been bitten or otherwise injured by unwisely sticking hands, heads ect. in to animal dens. Where they searching for a cache? If so which one? quote:Just like the ones who determine whether or not cachers should be allowed to hide caches on public land. And what is that suppose to mean? Dont get me wrong I know what it means but how does that relate to your post? I kind of read it as a threat. KO PS Sorry to see you get thrashed so early in your caching adventures! Quote
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