Mugglers Beware

[+Waterboy]

In an effort to deter vandalism at geocaches we have enlisted the aid of security officers. The attached photo shows one of these officers patrolling near our Eagles Nest cache. Notice the camouflage uniform. Be warned, these officers are armed to the teeth.

If you are interested in a position on a cache at other locations in the northeast, please email resume to Waterboy With Wife.

[+Team Bam Bam]

Cool pic!

 

We also ran into another of your employees - a large, black, furry one on the way to Helispot last year.

[+Polgara]

Awwww, that snake was just taking advantage of the beautiful hiking weather, can ya blame him?

 

HOWEVER

 

I'll keep my distance!

[+BMSquared]

That would be a really cool pair of boots!

[+rufnredy]

Do I need to pay an agancy fee for this one? He is guarding my Sky Meadows cache.

[+rufnredy]

Or for that matter, this lovely thing was inspecting cachers near the Tribute to Daniel cache in the Frederick area. Came right up to me and asked what I was doing hanging around the fence

[+Team Shibby]

That would be a really cool pair of boots!

And a new baby rattle for Team Bam Bam!!

 

Kar

[+Team GPSaxophone]

What's with calling them "Mugglers"? the correct term is "Muggles"

[+BMSquared]

What's with calling them "Mugglers"? the correct term is "Muggles"

I think they mean those who would "muggle" or destroy caches. Hence "Mugglers".

[+Jerseytrex]

Or for that matter, this lovely thing was inspecting cachers near the Tribute to Daniel cache in the Frederick area. Came right up to me and asked what I was doing hanging around the fence

I think I could handle running into one of these. I don't ever want to meet any of those snakes up close.

[+Team GPSaxophone]

What's with calling them "Mugglers"? the correct term is "Muggles"

I think they mean those who would "muggle" or destroy caches. Hence "Mugglers".

Well, "Muggler" sounds too much like "Mugger" to me. I for one wouldn't want to visit a cache if "Muggers" have been in the area.

 

Muggles, on the other hand, are just "non-cachers". Not all non-cachers do bad things to caches.

[avroair]

What's with calling them "Mugglers"? the correct term is "Muggles"

I think they mean those who would "muggle" or destroy caches. Hence "Mugglers".

Well, "Muggler" sounds too much like "Mugger" to me. I for one wouldn't want to visit a cache if "Muggers" have been in the area.

 

Muggles, on the other hand, are just "non-cachers". Not all non-cachers do bad things to caches.

Muggler is a reference to a non-cacher who has 'muggled' a cache... hence they are a muggler. Since they were the ones who muggled a cache.

 

Rowling

[+BMSquared]

Well, "Muggler" sounds too much like "Mugger" to me. I for one wouldn't want to visit a cache if "Muggers" have been in the area.

 

Muggles, on the other hand, are just "non-cachers". Not all non-cachers do bad things to caches.

Muggler or mugger, the point was the humerous fact that they posted a rattlesnake as a guard for the cache.

Edited May 26, 2005 by BMSquared

[+Team Rampant Lion]

One of these "Security Officers" mistook me for a "Muggler" last weekend while I was looking for one of dobsonian's new caches near Lake Hopatcong. I have a snake bite about 3" above my ankle.

 

Ironically, it wasn't recognized until yesterday. I distinctly remember the pain of the bite but wrote it off to being poked by a stick or branch after jumping down off a rock. I didn't hear or see anything. It's been aggitated all week but I remember my son identifying we were in the middle of a field of poison sumac and thought that was why it was still burning. When it was looked at, sure enough it was a snake bite.

 

Sneaky little buggers aren't they?

Edited May 26, 2005 by Team Rampant Lion

[+Peconic Bay Sailors]

Interresting facts about Timber Rattlers I read here...

Facts About Rattlesnake Bites[\b]

Death due to a rattlesnake bite is unlikely; only one rattlesnake bite fatality has been documented in Wisconsin since 1900. Timber rattlesnake bites in Wisconsin have averaged one every four years in recent history (1982- 1997). Five additional bites have occurred as the result of intentional handling of rattlesnakes, with 80% of these involving the abuse of alcohol. Rattlesnakes can control the injection of venom when biting; up to 60% of all poisonous snake bites to humans are "dry," containing no venom.

[+BMSquared]

This thread is getting interesting.

 

TRL, are you OK? Any symptoms? I would think that a large snake would have gotten your attention a little. Maybe a juvinile?

 

Peconic - I never heard of that before. That is a really cool factoid. I love the "alcohol related" foolishness.

 

Since my experience at Return to Rocky Mountain, I am seeing snakes everywhere..even in the shower. Now I find myself looking forward to winter.

[+Team Bam Bam]

Muggler or mugger, the point was the humerous fact that they posted a rattlesnake as a guard for the cache.

Thank you, Captain Obvious.

[+Team Rampant Lion]

This thread is getting interesting.

 

TRL, are you OK? Any symptoms? I would think that a large snake would have gotten your attention a little. Maybe a juvinile?

Yes, thanks for asking. The bite site is still swollen and regularly "warm" (a burn sensation which is why I thought it was poison sumac or ivy). Other than that, I am fine.

 

My guess, is that this was a small, non-poisonous snake. I probably put my big foot in his living room and he wanted to show me e didn't like it. Scary to think of the potential to put my foot where a bigger, poisonous relative might live.