[GeoStL] caches near railways.
- From: Glenn <GLNash@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:52:20 -0500
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Placing caches near railway can be dangerous.. to your wallet. Ouch...
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Taken from
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=21328&log=y#322202
Hillwilly's Day In Court
If most of you don't know what this is about this is an update on what
happened with Tunnel Vision 1909. On November 2, 2001 Hillwilly's cache was
blown up by the BOMB SQUAD in Dorris California. The FBI got involved and
charged us with Criminal Trespass and Criminal Vandalism for placing the
cache on railroad property. You cannot be within 150 feet of it. This
happened to be the weekend of the most terrorism that was suppose to hit
all the bridges and tunnels in the U.S. since the 9-11 attacks. There were
some people at the cache and replacing the ammo can back on the hillside
when the train conductor came out of the tunnel and noticed them. In turn,
he called the police and in turn they called in the bomb squad and the FBI.
They ended up coming to our house and investigating us and dropped the
terrorist charges. The other charges were then filed against Hillwilly. He
had to go to court on May 3rd. last Friday and here is the outcome. The
judge started out with a 1 hour commentary on every case to be presented
except ours in which Tonto, fell asleep and was snoring through it.
Hillwilly went up before him and took the newspaper article that was
featured in our local newspaper with him and Quad doing Geo-caching and
promoting it, along with alot of caches and groups of people with the
cache. The judge threw it aside and wasn't interested. He proceeded to
start telling him the charges of Criminal trespassing and vandalism.
Hillwilly sprayed some gold paint where it wasn't suppose to be. The
sentence was then read. It goes as follows: 1 year jail time, 1 year on
probation to stay out of any kind of trouble, 1 year license suspension in
the state of California, and to pay all the expenses incurred for the bomb
squad, the railroad having to change 2 crews out because of a 4 1/2 hour
detainment and closing down of Hwy. 97. They had to taxi 2 crew men in to
change shifts and 2 crew men had to be taxi'd into K.Falls and put up in a
motel for the night then be taxi'd back to Redding the next day. The
expense just for that was $1650.00. With all the fines and fees attatched
to all of this, the grand total was $2030.00, which we had to pay right
then and there. To be kind ,for the moment, the judge told him he would
drop the 1 year jail time. He was not to be near the train tracks ever
again unless he was on the train. This was pretty hefty for playing a
harmless game. Tonto mentioned taking up donations, maybe not a bad idea.
The thing we didn't understand was the suspension of his driver's license
for a year. Pulled that out of a hat. I'm mentioning all of this so it
hopefully won't happen to anyone else. If you have any caches on RR
property pull them or move them, and you shouldn't go and get any one elses
either. This is probably the most expensive cache we will ever do and the
most talked about. I want to thank all of you for your thoughts and concern
for Hillwilly. Happy Geo-caching to all. Di
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Glenn
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