[Az-Geocaching] GeoTheives, and Nightly News

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I agree with the comments about "GeoThieves"....frustrating, somewhat
costly depending on how you set up your caches, but I feel it is a
risk worth taking. This is pretty obvious, but I will say it anyway.
If we all stopped hiding caches due to losing money/time to the few
dishonest people that are always around, the game would come to a
screeching halt (faster for those who have already found many existing
caches.) Geocaching depends in cache hiders, not cache seekers, to
maintain itself. (I feel like a commercial for geocaching! "So, please
go out and hide a cache today!".... that's a joke)

On another note, did anybody see last night's NBC Nightly News on GPS
technology? They mentioned about every (new) conceivable use for GPS,
except ANY of the games/sports applications. I was surprised, I was
expecting at least a mention of geocaching, or another of the games.
Using it in cars is not new, blind people are using voice-directions
technology (I don't know what else to call it, like a mapping program
that talks to them.) That's really COOL. And, they even track CATTLE
on ranches with GPS technology!!
Good but brief explanation of the satellites, too.

Trisha "Lightning"
Prescott (below freezing last night)



On Thu, 05 Dec 2002, Scott Wood wrote:


At 07:02 AM 12/5/2002 -0700, you wrote:
Stealth
applications take some time...Friends Again will be the name). I just
find it very frustrating that after putting time and effort into a item
that is stolen. a knee jerk reaction would be to say this a a ill
placed
cache but the cache has been around for over 3 months and not 2
days....
When we first started hiding caches I gave this a lot of thought.  I
decided that there was always going to be a certain percentages of
caches
that were going to be plundered in some manner.  Because of that I
decided that it was much more important to find a great place for a
cache
instead of spending a lot of time or money on the physical cache
itself.  The only thing that I am upset about if one of my caches
disappears is the log book, nothing else has any real value.
As an example, there is a cache out in Red Rock Canyon near Vegas that
is
a pringles can.  It is a very cheap cache container, and the mere
fact that it is a pringles can helps you in retrieving and replacing
the
cache without attracting any undue notice.
 
Scott
Team My Blue Heaven
www.myblueheaven.com/geocache


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