RTW wrote:

<big snip>

>Why hide one in front of the local library (or inside it as 
>someone has done!) or on the front steps of the post office or police 
>station (ok, no one has done that yet, but I can see someone doing that 
>someday!) or in any other location that will arouse police or security 
>suspicions?
>

It's been done, Scott. Check out GCGA7A or, more specifically, my log of
 [URL=http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=0b4ccb77-b494-432f-aed9-2c42520abd7a]02/28/04[/URL].  
Of course, this cache has been archived but it was around for almost a 
year and quite literally right under the nose of the authorities.  I 
agree with you though on the over-abundance of "stealthy" urban micros.  
Many times I have passed over caches because I felt they were too 
"risky", at least at the time.

-- Sprocket

P.S. I know the above cache is OOS, so that's probably why you've never 
seen it before. ;-)