[GeoStL] OOps

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This seems to be happening more and more as geocaching gets more and 
more popular.

Cacher is arrested while looking for a cache. 

WHERE?? The cache was placed at the edge of a parking lot at a shopping 
area.  Sound familiar?  Parking lot caches are everywhere. Caches on 
restaurant porches are everywhere (except around here).  Lots of folks 
and many other reviewers view these "openly accessible areas"  as public 
property and freely accessible to anyone for anything.  I have always 
felt that parking lots and restaurant porches were private property made 
available to the public for use as originally intended. Such as, parking 
for the mall or for entering/exiting the restaurants.

Why is getting permission important? Ask the arrested fella and he might 
be able to fill us in on a few of the finer points.

Also remember , when caching, the cache seeker assumes all 
responsibility for finding a cache.

Would having permission helped in this case? Not sure but if there was a 
statement like  "**permission obtained from mall management to place 
this cache" on the cache page, it might have helped the guy being 
stopped explain things to the officials. 


This almost reminds me of the nearly published headlines, "Two 
Geocachers shot by angry landowner while looking for cache on the Katy 
trail"  Fortunately  we escaped unshot. :-) 


glenn

 


 

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