[GeoStL] Re: Some Don't Care for Cemetary Caches
- From: "Hardwire" <hardwire@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 18:05:37 -0600
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This one looks like a follow up article...
http://tinyurl.com/7amdl
http://www.mysanantonio.com/salife/stories/MYSA102305.1P.gps.mystery.1bd9693
5.html
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Here is an article from the local paper:
Death ends high-tech scavenger hunt
Web Posted: 12/13/2004 12:00 AM CST
Mariano Castillo
San Antonio Express-News
Police searching for a man participating in an Internet scavenger hunt found
his body Sunday after he apparently fell in Eisenhower Park on the far
Northwest Side.
James Chamberlain, 64, failed to return home Saturday from the scavenger
hunt, known online as a "geocache."
His wife reported him missing just before 9 p.m. Saturday and gave police
coordinates on a global positioning system that Chamberlain was using as
part of the contest.
Those coordinates led police to the park, where they found his car.
A police canine unit and helicopter searched brushy area around the park
throughout Saturday night, aided by the Heidi Search Center and San Antonio
Park Police.
Sunday morning, searchers found Chamberlain's body, dressed in blue jeans
and a T-shirt, off one of the park's nature trails, park police Sgt. David
Rodriguez said.
Chamberlain's family gathered at his home Sunday afternoon. They declined to
comment, except to say his death appeared to be an accident.
Police apparently did not suspect foul play.
An autopsy was scheduled for today.
A "geocache" is a high-tech treasure hunt in which participants use a
handheld GPS unit to find items hidden by other players.
Courses are downloaded from the Web, where thousands of starting coordinates
for caches can be found.
In the most common variation of the game, participants replace an item they
find with another of equal value.
The Web site geocaching.com showed several courses go through Eisenhower
Park. Several of those were no longer active because park police had asked
scavenger hunters, called "geocachers," not to go off the trails, according
to user comments on the site.
Two courses that met the park police's criteria were available to download,
including one near where Chamberlain was found.
If this was the geocache Chamberlain was on, he was searching for a film
canister with a Web address that would reveal coordinates for a bigger cache
at Huntsville State Park.
"From what I understand, he found it," Rodriguez said of the canister.
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