[Az-Geocaching] Please consider the container you hide

[Scott Wood]

At 10:29 PM 7/9/2005, you wrote:

>I leave you with some reading from today and ask that containers be 
>clearly marked with contact information.

As typical Americans who get our information from the TV news, we rarely 
ever get to see what the devices that terrorists use look like.  When I was 
in the military, I did get to see a lot of what they used.  Depending on 
where they hide explosives, they go out of their way to make them look like 
items that are not out of place.

Simply adding contact information to the cache container will do absolutely 
NOTHING to prevent law enforcement from acting in the way that they are 
trained to act when this sort of situation arises.

The fact is, we live in the world we now live in.  We can't change 
that.  There is no such thing as a cache container that will automatically 
be left alone by law enforcement if they see people acting strangely around 
it.  With the growing number of urban caches, this is only going to get 
worse and worse.  That is one of the reasons I don't care for urban caches, 
it is impossible to not look suspicious when looking for them.

As long as caches are being hidden in high population areas, this will 
continue to happen.  We might feel better about ourselves by putting out 
messages asking us to give it some thought, but it isn't going to change 
things.