[GeoStL] Re: caches near railways.

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As I started reading this story, I was feeling pretty sorry for the guy. And
even had a moment of anti-gummint outrage course through my veins at the
reports of the judge's treatment of the guy......until I noticed the dates
involved.

This all occurred on 11/9/2001. Barely 60 days post 9/11.....when paranoia
of further terrorist attacks was still running at a *fever* pitch. Given the
time frame and recent events, playing with ammo cans in such a location was
not exactly the brightest move in the world. 

     -= Russ =-  (aka: BottomFeeder)

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> [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Glenn
> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 2:52 PM
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> Subject: [GeoStL] caches near railways.
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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
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> 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
> 
> ---------------------
> Glenn
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