[GeoStL] Re: Geocache game forces Wal-Mart evacuation
- From: "Jim Bensman" <junkmailno@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:54:01 -0600
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Well I guess I spoke to soon, having permission and putting a Geocaching
sticker on the container did not suffice. But they certainly make something
like this less likely. I am also a fan of clear containers that someone can
see inside without opening it.
Jim Bensman
"Nature Bats Last"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:geocaching-
> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Lusicic
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 1:05 PM
> To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Geocache game forces Wal-Mart evacuation
>
> -
> I recall also, one of the first times I heard about a cache being hit
> by
> a "disrupter". It was placed on private property and with the owner's
> permission. Unfortunately, he did not inform his staff of the
> situation,
> and they reported the "suspicious" activity. So even having permission
> is NOT a guarantee that things like this will not happen. The property
> owner needs to educate the staff. But that isn't going to stop the
> hyper-paranoid bomb fearing good citizen who has been propagandized to
> see a bomb and suspicious activity everywhere they look from reporting
> it. It is going to happen. Next thing you know, the bomb squad will be
> called to hike 15 miles into a desolate area because someone planted a
> device to blow up a pine tree as part of a terrorist plot.
>
> Mike Tollefson wrote:
> > -
> > >From the cache owner:
> > As one of the members of TeamEmtFireKids & the member whom placed the
> cache originally @ the Titusville Walmart, permission was granted last
> winter by the Store Mgr to place the cache.
> >
> > Can I blame PSP, or the Erie Bomb Squad for blowing it up? In reality
> no, they were doing their job. I respect what they do, understand what
> they do & why they do it. As I come from a family of LEO's &
> Firefighters of 3rd generation.
> >
> > Was the container marked properly? The container was a clear 2qt
> Lock-n-Lock by Rubbermaid. It was camo taped to match the pine tree it
> was originally placed in. A small "Official Groundspeak Geocache"
> sticker on the lid, with email/cellphone contact information
> (laminated) inside of it with the logbook.
> >
> > Looking at the video, from where the Bomb Squad had detonated the
> cache at, it was in or towards the middle of the parking lot. This is
> not where the cache was originally placed at all. The cache was placed
> @ the end of the parking lot, in a small pine tree near a retention
> pond. (Clearly away from the building, far end of the parking lot)
> >
> > This cache was not easy to spot in its hiding place either, quite a
> few times I have gone over to check on the cache, parked right in front
> of it & could not see it. So it to have been moved out into the open,
> prior to calling PSP, Titusville PD & the Erie Bomb Squad by someone or
> something.
> >
> > The cache lived a short but good life of 13 months & 1 day, helped
> quite a few TBs & coins out & last but not least gave 79 cachers a
> smiley
> >
> > This goes to so you that getting permission doesn't stop these type
> of incidents. This wasn't even an LPC but hidden in a pine tree well
> away from the store.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Mike Griffin <griff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:39:12 AM
> > Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Geocache game forces Wal-Mart evacuation
> >
> > -
> > "Such boxes have been placed in public areas without permission as
> part of a
> > game called geocaching, said Hudson."
> >
> >
> >
> > I guess the frisbee rule didn't apply.. Either that, ot they just
> don't know
> > about the frisbee rule... LOL!
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Glenn Nash" <glenn.geocachingadmin@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "SLAGA" <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 7:57 AM
> > Subject: [GeoStL] Geocache game forces Wal-Mart evacuation
> >
> >
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