Placing a cache that is likely to be mugglized

[+Confucius' Cat]

(inspired by the thread about not being seen)

 

I've been thinking of placing a micro in a playground or such, in plain sight but just a little above or below sight line, just to see how long it would stay.

 

I ran a week long game at camp this year with chrome matchboxes and placed many of them right out in the open and they lasted quite a while, even with 200 kids looking for them. (some quite intensely)

 

In many cases, kids would come and ask for clues while they were looking straight at one.

 

I wonder if it would be fair to the caching community to place a cache that you guess would not last?

 

I can always move it just a little and hide a new one.

 

I would try to keep a cache there and close to the coordinates. Of course the log papers will disappear with the cache boxes.

 

Whatcha think?

 

Caint never did nothing.

GDAE, Dave

[+sept1c_tank]

Most of my caches are begging for those dopey muggles to plunder them. But none of them have been compromised yet.

 

I have two caches that are so high traffic, I am surprised they are still there.

 

And, (OT), yes...I think it is fair and makes the game just that much more exiting.

 

==============="If it feels good...do it"================

 

**(the other 9 out of 10 voices in my head say: "Don't do it.")**

 

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[+Renegade Knight]

One of my caches was in the branches of a tree in a park. Grated it was a densly foliaged tree. It lasted just under a year before I got tired of it and archived it. Reading the logs I had a few muggles find it. One when it fell out of the tree and they got it on the ground.

 

I've had better hidden ones last a much shorter time.

 

My opinion is go for it. You never know.

[+Pat Patterson]

That reminds me of playing hide and go seek at dusk and laying in the shadow of a big tree.

 

I say go for it. it will probably last a long time. you could do it as the first stage in a 2 step multy that way the olny thing you loose is the film can or match box and a slip of paper with the real co-ords on it. It would seem to me that some virts could be better handled this way. The real cache could then be in a much safer but ugly spot.

 

Pat Patterson

Garmin 12XL

Some have graceland, some have mecca. We have the side of a gravel road in Oregon.... How did we get to be the better off?

[+NattyBooshka]

hmmm... reminds me of Douglas Adams' SEPs in Hitchikers

 

Maybe in a very busy place something on plane view wouldn't be noticed!

[+carleenp]

I have one in plain sight in a park. I don't know if it will last or not, but I thought it would be fun to place. So, I say go ahead and do it.

 

[+SamLowrey]

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Originally posted by NattyBooshka:

hmmm... reminds me of Douglas Adams' SEPs in Hitchikers

 

Maybe in a very busy place something on plane view wouldn't be noticed!

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I think about that concept all the time.

 

I miss Adams....