[GeoStL] Re: Another reminder to avoid railroad caches!
- From: Mike Lusicic <lusicic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:25:36 -0500
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Oh, I forgot, the other scary part is this little sentence at the end:
"We're going to interview Cook, tally the costs and then meet with the
prosecutor,"
Like we need to be responsible if someone is so paranoid that they see
everything as a bomb. I can think of a whole lot of "suspicious" things that
might need to be investigated because it "could" house a bomb. We need to stop
parking cars in public places because there might be a bomb in the trunk. What
is the difference between that and an ammo box? I guarantee you can fit more
stuff in the trunk of the car. So do you have to pay and suffer prosecution
because you parked you car in front of someone who is paranoid? The fact that
they are serious enough about this to even TALK to a prosecutor says to me that
is pretty scary. And we thought that St. Peters was ridiculous about requiring
SLAGA to have liability insurance before anyone could place a cache in the park.
I guess I better step off the soapbox before I REALLY get going.
Mike Lusicic wrote:
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>Well, lets think about this. What about a micro? Cannot put it in a
>public place because it could be mistaken for a poison gas cylinder or
>maybe it is full of anthrax? I am with Rich. This terrorism scare is
>making life in this country less free each and every day, and there is
>just too much crying wolf... or the sky is falling to suit me. I fear
>what they may up with next. Especially in an election year where someone
>can claim how safe they have made is from terrorism by banning
>geocaching because it is so easy to confuse with a terrorist bomb or
>other instrument of destruction.
>
>Chris Binder wrote:
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>>Well...it's common sense to not put a cache near a railroad, road bridge,
>>tunnel, or a government facility. It's the guy's fault anyway.
>>
>>~Chris
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>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "GC-RGS" <gc-rgs@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 4:57 PM
>>Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Another reminder to avoid railroad caches!
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>>>"They need to find another game."
>>>
>>>Ouch, I don't like that last sentence.
>>>
>>>Rich
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>>>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Pam Ekey" <pekey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>To: "Geocaching" <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 4:45 PM
>>>Subject: [GeoStL] Another reminder to avoid railroad caches!
>>>
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>>>>Here's another reminder why we don't hide caches near trains or railroad
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>equipment! This is from today's Indianapolis Star:
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>>>>Web game leads to bomb scare
>>>>Associated Press
>>>>October 27, 2004
>>>>
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>>>>HARTFORD CITY, Ind. -- Police shut down three businesses and evacuated
>>>>
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>>>everyone inside after a competitor in an Internet scavenger hunt placed a
>>>box under a train behind an ice cream shop.
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>>>>They were allowed to return about three hours later after the Delaware
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>>>County Bomb Squad determined the box was not dangerous, the Star Press of
>>>Muncie reported today.
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>>>>The bomb squad was dispatched Tuesday afternoon after police received a
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>>>report that someone had put the box at the Tin Lizzy, at Indiana 3 and
>>>Indiana 18, about 45 miles southwest of Fort Wayne, said Blackford County
>>>Sheriff Kevin Mahan.
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>>>>Investigators said David Cook of Gaston, a 37-year-old computer
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>consultant, had placed the box under the train as part of an Internet game
>>>called geocaching.
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>>>
>>>>The game is similar to an on-line scavenger hunt, Cook said. Someone
>>>>
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>>will
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>>>hide a box somewhere and then place the global positioning system
>>>coordinates on a Web site. Players then get the coordinates and go looking
>>>for the box.
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>>>>When they find it, they remove an item and replace it with a simple
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>trinket or toy, sign the book and go back to the Web site and log it. Cook
>>>said he had found the box and then put it back, along with others at an
>>>
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>>old
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>>>cabin and in a cemetery.
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>>>>"I feel horrible about the whole thing," he said. "I've heard of
>>>>
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>>>high-profile cases where boxes placed near government buildings were
>>>mistaken for bombs. But I've never been involved with anything like this,
>>>not even remotely."
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>>>>Mahan said he did not know if Cook would face charges.
>>>>
>>>>"We're going to interview Cook, tally the costs and then meet with the
>>>>
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>>>prosecutor," he said. "People have to understand that I've been to three
>>>
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>>FBI
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>>>and CIA briefings in the last two weeks, getting briefed on terrorists and
>>>terrorism. They need to find another game."
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>>>
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>>>prop2=""var prop3="updates/news"var prop4=""var prop5=""var
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>>prop6="news"var
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>>>prop7="local_news"var prop8=""var prop9=""var prop10=""var s_code='
>>>'if(s_code!='
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>>'){s_it('gpaper138')if(s_code=s_dc('gpaper138'))document.write(s_code)}elsed
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>>>ocument.write('')
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