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Geocaching Crackdown?
thejuggler writes "Some cities and counties are banning or considering banning geocaching in their parks. "It's good, clean, wholesome fun - just do it someplace else," said Brian Adams, chief of resource protection for the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway, which has banned geocaching. The geocaching.com website claims there are over 600 caches within 100 miles of the twincities."
if geocaching is being banned in public parks then the terrorists have already won.
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Mine is not a "definition," rather a point being made. The Caches that are left are, for all intents and putposes, junk in a box. It's not a building, like the Washington Monument, but just a collection of "stuff." So, if I carefully wrap some horse dung, place it in a container, and put it on the roadside that's not litter? Somehow because I plced it there purposefully it mystically transforms into something else? Give me a break.
*sigh* A Monument is MEANT to be there you clod. It's supposed to exist at that place, as planned by the city leadership, park rangers, et. al. It's not garbage. It's not the same as a pile of shit in a box.
You're the one who has no idea. If you think that any monument is the same as the "caches" left you are seriously on some kind of trip.
"So, if you bring bottled water to a park, are drinking fountains litter (since you have no use for them)?"
Nope, the fountains fall into the idea of a building. They're integral to the park itself. I'm not leaving my bottles there, filled with a note saying "FF7 was here" either. Same for the trash recepticles that exist.
"If you never feel the need to sit down, are park benches litter?"
You assume that I don't sit. The benches are, again, integral to the park itself, are a building (per-se) and are meant to be there. Your comprihension is flawed.
"What I am getting at is that there are already several unnatural objects in public parks, because they provide a convenience or possibly a fun factor to that park; and yet you do not seem to specifically object to their presence. What then is your beef with geocaches?"
Unnatural, yes, like a bench or a waterfountain--these serve a purpose to the general populace of the park. A geocache (nice way of saying "shit in a box") is just some containter with a note in it ("Joe was here. Welcome to 67 degrees N, 15 degrees W...") It's an abandoned container (tupperware for instance) with a note inside. It wont degrade in the soil. It's there until someone removes it. And the park clean-up crew has to deal with them. Gee, how would you like to have to go all over the place and pick up someone elses crap they leave behind? This is more likened to litter/garbage and grafitti than anything else and it's not a legitimate item.