>From: "Brian - Team A.I." >Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com >To: >Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Box game brings out bomb squad >Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 11:40:47 -0700 > >I posted this on the gc.com forums in a thread about a similar situation in >which a Disneyland cache (micro) was discovered just before an attraction >reopened, resulting in a delay while it was investigated: > >...society has been conditioned to a state of hypervigilant paranoia, >resulting in stupid scenarios like ammo cans being blown up under a rock >pile. It wouldn't matter if the ammo can was clear plexiglass, with nothing >more than a fully translucent logbook that made it clear the object being >looked at is nothing more than an object, and not an explosive device. >Someone would still freak out over it, and thousands of dollars would be >wasted. Heck, there could be a blanket understanding/approval by law >enforcement for a specific type of cache container that we were allowed to >use, and yet someone would still call and we'd find TBs blown sky high by >disruptors. > >Maybe it's just me, but I don't take everything I see as a >surgically-altered Osama, and freak out >everytime I see someone breathe. maybe we should have something similar to the stupid motorist law... when someone freaks out and calls out the feds to check on a potential bomb or something... and it turns out to be a geocache or something.. then that person pays the bill! Scott Team Ropingthewind _________________________________________________________________ MSN Toolbar provides one-click access to Hotmail from any Web page – FREE download! http://toolbar.msn.com/go/onm00200413ave/direct/01/