[Az-Geocaching] Cache bandits

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Oooh, Mike, now you have me curious....for all of us "non-Phoenix"
cachers who may never get down to ASU.....what kind of container?? :-)
Trisha


I agree with you also, people are catching on to locating a remote
place with "stuff" to rummage thru and take. Human nature....ugh. I
can't believe that creep would take the ammo box~! 



Mike Schwarz wrote

> 
> On Thu, 23 May 2002, Ken Henson wrote:
> >
> >> Today (Thursday, May 23) I visited my cache, Sycamore View.  On
the 
> >> cache page there is only one entry.  The log book has about six 
> >> entries.  The last entry, May 18, made by �Space
Men� stated that he / 
> >> they took the cache box.  It was an ammo can.  The rest of the
cache box 
> >> contents were left at the site.  The log book and the contents of
the 
> >> cache had been placed in a Ziplock bag that was in the cache box
along.  
> >> Someone had added their trash to the bag with the log book.  The
log 
> >> read that this site should not be listed on the web.  Only
special 
> >> people should be allowed to visit this special sacred spot.
> >> 
> >> Maybe, just maybe, I would get a different group of visitors at
my 
> >> caches if I made them �Member  Only� caches?
> 
> Ken, sorry to hear about that.  You've made us aware of the fact
> that people may actually be using the site to plot evil acts of
> theft or vandalism.  I would urge people to never leave an item worth
> more than a couple dollars in a cache.
> 
> The ammo boxes definitely make the best containers, as far as 
> protecting the cache's contents, but now, sadly, we've seen that 
> they may become a target for thieves.
> 
> I don't think too many people would want to take the container for
> "Sparky's Stash" on the ASU campus.  Maybe we should make all of
> our containers look like that.   :)
> 
> Mike
> "Malthusian"
> 
> 
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