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Of course, this cache has been archived but it was around for almost a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. ;-)