[GeoStL] Re: subject for newspaper story
- From: <barbarastl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:22:35 -0500
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>
I love the idea of including the tidbits about your family and CICO in the
article - great idea! However, I'm not sure I'd include the story of Gage
Wayment (the little boy who wandered away from the truck). His grandmother,
Carol Wayment, filed suit claiming negligence on the part of the county
sheriff?s office because the searchers didn't use "established and well-known
search-and-rescue techniques" and said that this contributed to the boy not
being found before he died. It seems as if that reflects negatively on
Geocaching. BTW, the father eventually killed himself because of the guilt.
> From: "merkin" <merkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2004/01/09 Fri PM 12:37:32 EST
> To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [GeoStL] Re: subject for newspaper story
>
> -
>
> My five-year-old daughter sees geocaching as time with her family, as well as
> "Treasure Hunting". My wife enjoys it because it's time spent outside in the
> sunshine, and that helps with her severe depression disorder. I like getting
> off the couch and away from the TV. We're new to Missouri, so other people
> "point things out" to us via caches that we probably wouldn't ever know about
> otherwise. And last, you know how guys love to use electrical gadgets but
> hate to ask for directions? This way, we cover both bases at the same time.
>
> Add Cache-In-Trash-Out and you're set.
>
> A couple of years ago, there was a small boy in Utah who wandered away from
> the truck in an effort to find his deer-hunting dad. The story didn't end
> well (the boy wore out the soles of his foot-jammies and froze to death in
> the snow two miles away from where he'd started), but Search & Rescue
> contacted the local Geocaching group in an effort to get GPS grids set up by
> people who knew how to use their equipment. Every square meter in a
> three-mile radius was searched and accounted for. That's a body of knowledge
> that would be welcome in any community, I'd think.
>
> Merkin4
>
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: <barbarastl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 11:53:36 -0500
>
> >-
> >Glenn,
> >
> >I like Drei's idea, and would add to it by listing a few sentences about
> >many of our members to emphasize the diversity of our group. For instance:
> >
> >Jen uses Geocaching as part of her homeschooling program.
> >
> >Judy mentioned to me that she was instructed to walk more as part of her
> >knee rehabilitation, so she's Geocaching as physical therapy.
> >
> >You can mention Chris as a teen who sets up his own caches.
> >
> >There's also Molly the Geocaching dog, Jim the "tree hugger" (hey! someone
> >else said it first!), etc.
> >
> >Barbara
>
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