[Az-Geocaching] Re: Sparky's Stash

[Brian Cluff]

I have noticed that acceptace of an item in the wild is mostly a matter
of time.
Broken down tractor on the side of the road, an eye sore.

Same broken down tractor on the side of the road 40 years later and
covered with rust (given that it's not all shot up) is suddenly a kodak
moment.

Seems to hold true with just about anything.  Builds that were
considered horrible when they were new and had people picketing hopeing
to stop them from being built later in live have people picketing to
keep them from being knocked down.

Anyway, I guess "antiqued" caches are probably a pretty good thing :)

Brian Cluff
Team Snaptek

On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 08:33, Mike Schwarz wrote:
> Trisha, Sparky's Stash is an old, rusty, yucky-looking can.  I 
> cracked up when I read n4/c's log for it, that it should be put 
> into the Smithsonian, in a display called "Early Geocaches".
> I will admit that it blends in well with its surroundings,
> so I don't know if replacing it with a new can is a good idea.
> 
> Mike (Malthusian)   :)
> 
> At 20:54:27 -0700 5/25/02, Trisha wrote:
> >
> >Oooh, Mike, now you have me curious....for all of us "non-Phoenix"
> >cachers who may never get down to ASU.....what kind of container?? :-)
> >Trisha
> >
> >
> >Mike Schwarz wrote
> >
> >> 
> >> On Thu, 23 May 2002, Ken Henson wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Today (Thursday, May 23) I visited my cache, Sycamore View.  On
> >the 
> >> >> cache page there is only one entry.  The log book has about six 
> >> >> entries.  The last entry, May 18, made by Space
> >Men stated that he / 
> >> >> they took the cache box.  It was an ammo can.  The rest of the
> >cache box 
> >> >> contents were left at the site.  The log book and the contents of
> >the 
> >> >> cache had been placed in a Ziplock bag that was in the cache box
> >along.  
> >> >> Someone had added their trash to the bag with the log book.  The
> >log 
> >> >> read that this site should not be listed on the web.  Only
> >special 
> >> >> people should be allowed to visit this special sacred spot.
> >> >> 
> >> >> Maybe, just maybe, I would get a different group of visitors at
> >my 
> >> >> caches if I made them �Member  Only� caches?
> >> 
> >> Ken, sorry to hear about that.  You've made us aware of the fact
> >> that people may actually be using the site to plot evil acts of
> >> theft or vandalism.  I would urge people to never leave an item worth
> >> more than a couple dollars in a cache.
> >> 
> >> The ammo boxes definitely make the best containers, as far as 
> >> protecting the cache's contents, but now, sadly, we've seen that 
> >> they may become a target for thieves.
> >> 
> >> I don't think too many people would want to take the container for
> >> "Sparky's Stash" on the ASU campus.  Maybe we should make all of
> >> our containers look like that.   :)
> >> 
> >> Mike
> >> "Malthusian"
> >> 
> >> 
> 
> 
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