At 01:16 PM 8/9/2002 -0400, you wrote:
the sport and our caches are in public places accesible by all. The thought 
was that some people who read the article might think caching itself is a 
bad sport and there are people who would seek caches to destroy them just 
to be hateful. I think this is fresh in the minds of people right now and 
the time is more likely to be now rather than later for this to occur. As 
the article pointed out, there are vandals out there who seek to destroy 
and have no respect for others or historical artifacts. Perhaps we are 
being overly sensitive, but I think everyone is a little on edge this week 
and feeling defensive after being wrongly accused in a public forum.

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There has been no indication that there is going to be an army of people, 
or even a single person for that matter, who will be heading out with the 
sole purpose of destroying caches.  The only negative that I have seen was 
the gentleman who posted the message to the list about his property, and 
even though I doubt that geocaching is the cause, he has every right to be 
upset about the trashing of his property.

I also don't mean to offend, and if I do I apologize, but I see this as a 
knee-jerk reaction to a perceived problem that may or may not exist.  I 
still contend that if there are those out there that are going to be 
anti-geocachers, one weekend will not stop them.  If they are intent on 
destroying caches, they will start with the easy ones and then move on to 
the harder ones.  If it gets to a point where there are only member's only 
caches left they will simply spend the $35 so that they can destroy them also.


Scott
Team My Blue Heaven
www.myblueheaven.com/geocache