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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."
a) Darcy is a bigot.
b) I wonder how these geohahsers would like it if a group of people showed up in their back yard, or house, unnivited.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
To those citing other countries laws for an event that happened in the US. They do not apply. Saudi Arabia has a different view on the rights of women and non-Muslims, but that doesn't mean they are right either. Citing another countries laws as a defense is like comparing Mac to Linux, it's two totally different things, that might have some similarities, but are mostly incompatible. It's nice you guys have other views on property rights, but private property for the most part (unless the Supreme Court and Mr Souter say otherwise) is very important right of Citizens in the US and trespassing is a punishable crime.