[GeoStL] Re: Question about a trackable and what's safe in a cache
- From: "tnands" <sydstyr@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:17:44 -0600
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I'm going to offer an alternative. Contact the owner, ask for his or her
address and then return the bug to him at your own expense. Let the owner
make the decision what to do. "Back in the day", even with the stated
"rules", things were probably a bit more relaxed and a lot of the better
maybe even required something like this in order to be retrieved! This
cacher has been playing this game for over 7 years and his bug has survived
for six. That's almost unheard of. There's obviously something about this
implement of potential maimery that strikes a chord with people or else it
would have slipped away under a car seat, been used as a cat toy or dropped
off the face of the Grand Canyon. Deliberately moving it to a "remote" cache
is not in the spirit of the game. If this were me and I caught wind of
someone coming along, essentially playing cache police and hijacking my bug,
I'd be seriously pissed. Send it back to the owner and then hope you never
"find" crack pipes, condoms, human excrement or portable meth labs.
Nancy
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Ledbetter"
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Question about a trackable and what's safe in a cache
> -
> I got a lot of useful responses to my question, and then I got this.
> Based
> on your dismissive attitude, I can only guess you never cache with
> children.
> As Mike stated he did with the scouts, I often let my own kids 'find' the
> cache, even if I see it first. I wouldn't be happy if they found this
> item.
>
> I have taken a similar item from a cache before due to a safety call. The
> fact that this one is a trackable with a long life was the only reason I
> didn't immediately do so for this one.
>
> Thanks everyone for all the reasoned responses. The suggestions I'm going
> to run with is to simply log it into and out of some of my cache finds,
> and
> take it to events to allow discovery. If I end up at some extremely
> remote
> and difficult cache, I may eventually drop it there. (The cache I found
> this one in was in a VERY accessible location.)
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shane Placeway" <placeman@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 12:37 PM
> Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Question about a trackable and what's safe in a
> cache
>
>
>> -
>> I wasn't making an argument. I was making fun of how long this thread
>> has
>> become over such a non-issue.
>>
>> --------------------------------
>> Shane Placeway
>> placeman@xxxxxxxxx
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