Geohashing Meets an Angry Rancher With Firearms

katicli writes "Geohashing, an obscure xkcd pastime which involves going to random coordinates generated by md5 hashing, the date, and the opening status of the stock market, appears to have just gotten far more interesting. The official wiki reports a warning for other geohashers intending to go to the spot designated for June 14th in the San Francisco area, as several avid fans of xkcd were met by an angry rancher and firearms."

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Why is this modded troll? It's the most accurate

[Fross]

By the account on xkcd's wiki page now:

- the meeting was NOT on private property, it was in a public place.
- the attendees did NOT venture onto private property.
- the other side of the road from where they were, was private property, owned by someone who drove up, with guns in sight, and proceeded to take photos of their numberplates (without permission, one presumes)

(this is all taken/derived from the wiki entry.)

I can't vouch for the behaviour of the meeting attendees, but by all means the property owner acted like an asshat, in an intimidating fashion. However the dialogue went, arriving with guns (and note, NOT on his own property) is not a cordial way to start investigating what is going on.

This is news to slashdot, perhaps the headline should read "Warning to geohashers: outsider-hating, gun-toting rednecks may crash your meeting on public property and take photographs of you or your vehicles without permission, because they 'don't take kindly to your kinda people round these parts'"

Re:Culture --weird

[Falconhell]

Actually, to anyone but a gun nut it is a device with one purpose to kill or injure. What type of seld delusion leads you to try and make a case for any other purpose. Ah US citizenship-of course.

Re:Overreactions

[plasmacutter]

Actually, at point blank range, someone with a knife can be faster than a person with a gun. Let me know when you can grab a bullet, turn it, and force it into the person who just fired it at you.

Also not true. It only takes a few pounds of pressure to puncture someone with a blade. it only takes a few grams of pressure to pull a trigger, my point stands.

Also, the effects are just as immediate as with a gun provided you hit the proper locations (jugular/carotid artery, femoral artery, etc). let me know when a blade produces a fist sized exit wound and has the concussive force of a bullet.

I think you need to study ballistics a little more.