+JEMdrop Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 by the way, i wish that i could find one for $2. Our local $1 sells the laser "kit"-- 7 different (mostly) shapes (hearts, bugs, etc) and the batteries ARE included. They also sell spare batteries for $1 a piece Quote Link to comment
Mars-El Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 I can't believe people are complaining about stuff found in caches. Hell, when I was a boy we used to find litters of hungry rattlesnakes or flimsy sacks full of mustard gas in the caches. We would be taking our lives into our hands EVERY time we opened a box. Explosions were commonplace. The danger made us tougher and more aware of the invisible voices that yelled every time we got hopped up on homemade vodka. believeyourbeliefs@juno.com Quote Link to comment
+JEMdrop Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 BTW don't you guys find that ammo cans are dangerous? I pinched my finger several times when closing them! That HURTS! And that's why Mwenechanga closes the metal cache boxes _I_ don't want to get hurt Quote Link to comment
+blazerfan Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 (edited) Laser pointers are fun for cats... might even be useful for other things They are annoying in movie theaters, concerts and sports games. I remember a concert I went to once were they stopped singing for a while because the lead singer kept having a laser pointer blind him. I have aslo watched a basketball game on TV were everytime they'd use a specific camera someone would shine a laser at it and render it useless... I'm sure they think its funny but its highly annoying for the rest of us. I can't even count the number of times I've seen them in movie theaters. Personally the annoying out weighs the fun and useful in my opinion... I'd never leave one. Edited April 12, 2005 by blazerfan Quote Link to comment
+flask Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 huh. thanks for the stuff abut classifications. turns out MY pointer is a class IIIa. cool. Quote Link to comment
+team_malaglot Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 no...stupid people with laser pointers should be banned. Quote Link to comment
+suzylou Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 Laser pointers are fun for cats... might even be useful for other things They are annoying in movie theaters, concerts and sports games. I remember a concert I went to once were they stopped singing for a while because the lead singer kept having a laser pointer blind him. I have aslo watched a basketball game on TV were everytime they'd use a specific camera someone would shine a laser at it and render it useless... I'm sure they think its funny but its highly annoying for the rest of us. I can't even count the number of times I've seen them in movie theaters. Personally the annoying out weighs the fun and useful in my opinion... I'd never leave one. That's exactly what I wanted to say...I don't care if a kid is stupid enough to blind itself, but I'd rather not have laser pointers shone at me, or at something I'm trying to watch. Quote Link to comment
+Corp Of Discovery Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 no...stupid people <snip> should be banned. Ahhh....thats better. Quote Link to comment
+TheAlabamaRambler Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 We need to ban doors. Doors are very dangerous! Have you ever approached a door only to have someone open it and hit you with it? It hurts - it could knock you off balance and cause you to fall, hit your head and die. As a child a car door once pinched my fingers and I have avoided doors ever since! Doors can be a source of physical and pshychological damage and trauma, especially in children or the elderly. I once was riding my motorcycle in California and some nut-job swerved over and opened his door, trying to hit me, so yes, doors can be used for homicide. (Actually, that may be normal for California - my ten years there was like living in a granola bowl - what ain't fruits or nuts is flakes! Strange place for a Southern boy!) I had glass doors on my lake house and poor little birds flew into them regularly, breaking their wee little necks, so doors are a danger to wildlife. Doors can be locked, and when you need to get in or out, you can't. BAN DOORS! Quote Link to comment
+GSVNoFixedAbode Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 We need to ban doors. <snip> BAN DOORS! ...not all doors surely? Outdoors are fun. [ducks before the rotten tomatoes start flying] Quote Link to comment
Find Now, Log Later? Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 (edited) If some ultimate authority were able to "ban" every sophisticated piece of technology that had been reduced to a mere "high-tech toy," there would be no geocaching. I don't have a problem with any legal and tradeable item someone might choose to leave in a cache. But what does it really matter, anyway? From the logs I read, only a small minority of geocachers actually bother to trade at all ... that aspect of the game has, for the most part, withered and died. It probably won't be long before the commonly seen "TNLNSL Thanks" is shortened further to merely "SLT." Edited April 19, 2005 by Bassoon Pilot Quote Link to comment
+TheAlabamaRambler Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 But what does it really matter, anyway? From the logs I read, only a small minority of geocachers actually bother to trade at all ... that aspect of the game has, for the most part, withered and died. Interesting! That's not the case in the 1000 or so traditionals I have found in 10 states and the dozens of threads on this and other geocaching forums! Please remember that new cachers who do not yet know better read these threads and may tend to believe what the "established" community has to say about the game! I don't deny your reported experience, only state that mine has been totally different! From my perspective this game is growing and improving daily, and trading trinkets is at the heart of it! Quote Link to comment
+bigredmed Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 (edited) But what does it really matter, anyway? From the logs I read, only a small minority of geocachers actually bother to trade at all ... that aspect of the game has, for the most part, withered and died. Interesting! That's not the case in the 1000 or so traditionals I have found in 10 states and the dozens of threads on this and other geocaching forums! Please remember that new cachers who do not yet know better read these threads and may tend to believe what the "established" community has to say about the game! I don't deny your reported experience, only state that mine has been totally different! From my perspective this game is growing and improving daily, and trading trinkets is at the heart of it! I see a lot of TNLN where I am from. Some of my caches are still trade locations, but others are just a string of TNLN's. The withering and dying part seems a little hyperbolic. Trading still goes on, but it seems to me that most of the cachers that persist beyond the 50 or so finds that mark the 50th percentile of all cachers, either start TNLNing primarily or trade sig items and TB's only. The trade down syndrome eventually trashes the cache and it either gets restocked by its owner, or it fosters a bunch of TNLN's. Edited April 19, 2005 by bigredmed Quote Link to comment
+Miragee Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 That is what I've noticed also. If the cache has been around for a while, it often doesn't have anything in it worth trading. I was third-to-find on one cache the other day and it was nice to see how well-stocked a cache can be at the begining of its life. Quote Link to comment
topsy woe mount Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 staring at the sun is probably worse for your eyes. I got permanent damage from it. Quote Link to comment
+tabulator32 Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 (edited) For what its worth... 1. I think the vast majority of caches would be well out of reach of very small children who might injure themselves with a laser pointer. 2. Most very small children who DO hunt geo-caches usually bring a parent who might assist them in such adventures. and, most bizarre of all... 3. The toy vending machines at the grocery store lobby near my favorite coffee shop will randomly vend a very small laser pointer complete with batteries for a "luck of the draw" shot of 75 cents. Other possible "rewards" from the same machine include a metal "toe ring" small enough to be swallowed and various mini automatic pistol replicas on keychains. All of these are about eye-level to a five year old from the machine's perspective. I would campaign against toy vending machines in grocery store lobbies before I complained about the cache I hiked a quarter-mile to get at. (I would just like to comment that I don't mean to down play the importance of child safety, nor do I mean to offend anyone who made any posts on this topic.) I think the lunk-head who brought a laser pointer to shine in the cockpit of a commercial jetliner may have some explaining to do and a fine to pay, but I, personally, wouldn't have a rule against laser pointers in caches. Edited April 27, 2005 by tabulator32 Quote Link to comment
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