WOLFB8 wrote:

>ok folks now there bitching at the rock art place.... I wonder if shelly is behind this one too.... check this out....a another catcher sent me the link thinking it was one of my caches but it is a virtual sign from the past by wererwe ....ken you out there
>
I absolutly love Ken's 2 cents on this matter, it really puts things 
into perspective.
I would have probably taken a similar "offensive" photograph and used 
the exact same logic.   To me it's like being at the grocery store... we 
all know not to eat the food that we haven't paid for, and they put 
protective wrappers and such so that we can't touch the food, or eat it 
without violating the wrapping... but sometimes the stores will take an 
item and put small pieces of it on a plate so that you can more closely 
examin it and taste it for yourself.  They don't always have someone 
there offering it to you, it's just a given that you can partake of 
whats on the plate.  If they want to put up a sign that says, don't eat 
what's on the plate, I would be happy to not try it, otherwise I'm 
probably going to try it.

It's the same with displays, you rope off everything but one and they 
don't remind you about their policy  with a sign when they have made one 
item comepletely different for all the rest and also put it right in 
someone's face like that, you have to expect them to have a closer look 
and probably touch it.

With that said... you have to wonder if they truely don't want ANYTHING 
to happen to ancient stuff like that, why they continue to leave it out 
in the elements to erode (I'm assuming this rock museum is outdoors.. 
they all seem to be)... not to mention the damage that acid rain can do 
to rocks in just a couple of years.  It would take a hell of a lot of 
body oil to equal a little bit of acid rain.

Brian Cluff
Team Snaptek