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" > > > _______________________________________________ > Az-Geocaching mailing list > listserv@azgeocaching.com > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > Arizona's Geocaching Resource > http://www.azgeocaching.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~