I was looking at the logs of this Yo Ho Ho Bozo, and his profile. He says that he travels the country plundering caches...leaving only the log book and the container and a skull and crossbone stamp in the log book. I would imagine that he has had several names with geocaching.com and done this before.
The owners of these caches should report the plundering to the people at geocaching.com. It won't stop it, but at least he'll have to get a new name...they should be able to trace the computer if he is using the same one, and eventualy his access to the site and creating caches to put his loot in will be taken away
Hopefully this will stop soon, or he will move on to another city to do this there.
I did have one thought, however. Instead of the usual bickering exhibited on this list serve, perhaps we as a community could band together to right this wrong. I know that I was looking forward to visiting the Pushing Tin cache as I am familiar with the movie that was referenced and would love to watch them coming in like that.
In all of the cases, I believe the cache container and log book are still in place. Now would it be possible for the memebers of this list serv, in the next couple of weeks, to visit these caches and restock them...whether we have been to the caches before or not...if you've been there post a note, if not, log the cache.
Leave an item or two, and not the usual divoted golf ball, or chewed on Mc'D's toy, but something fairly decent, like a still in box Hot Wheels car, neat key ring, etc...you know, dollar store items.
If the 25% of this list serv who are regular cachers would do this that would be about 40 - 45 cachers, I think. Even if each one only visits 1 cache and leaves an item, each cache would have 5 items in them.
Would this be a good idea? Is it possible for us to band together as a community to help out some neat caches, and people, rather than continue our usual bickering?
I hope so. And I plan to visit these cache in the next 2 weeks to do exacly as I have said here. I invite you all to do the same.
Thanks,
Joe
TeamBlunder
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Casteel
To:
az-geocaching@listserv.azgeocaching.com
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 10:42 AM
Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Re: Cache Pirates
Well, it's official. azcachemeister visited Pushing Tin this morning, and confirmed what we had hoped was NOT the case.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=67154
The only items remaining were the cache container and the logbook.
Brian
Team A.I.
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