Here is my post for my cache Another *!#@ Micro

"After receiving feedback on this cache, it has been deliberately compromised AGAIN! What is wrong with you people! If you can't figure out how to get to the log book - DON'T DESTROY it. That's what a DNF is for!
Sad. I'll have to rethink whether I'll bring it back."

I'm thinking about killing all of my caches except the true mountain caches. How I long for the 'old days' ...

Just keep the one on Asbestos Rd until I get a chance to look for it. I love to log DNF's for micros!!!!

Hang on brownie2,, I've just about got the motor running on this woodchipper and we'll be ready to go hunt that one.
Just kidding phat.bak. mxcr

I like your idea better, mxcr. After seeing a photo, I was thinking my weedeater can't handle that big stuff!

I understand your frustration with the stupidity of these cacher's who can't figure out how to get the cache without breaking it. The drive for the almighty find makes some people so incredibly moronic. They tear apart walls of brick or pick apart a wall or pull out the stacked stone of a fireplace just to get their numbers up one.

Normally I would say that alot of the problem of those instances I mentioned were actually the fault of the cache hider... Not picking a proper spot. But not your micro cache. It is in a great spot where not a lot of damage to the area can be done, there is plenty of screenage so muggles don't normally see you working the cache so rushing is not a valid excuse.

This is a huge issue with me. It is clearly a case of people who have no respect or gratitude for the cache placement. Leave no Trace does not mean a thing to them. I can always tell when a certain cacher has been through an area before me... he tears the area up till the cache is found and off he goes. These are the same people who in the woods dig out every single stump hole and make the area look like it had been bombed.

I just love it when cachers break your cache and then hide it where they think it's close enough. Or the ones who can't even be bothered with putting the cache back in the same spot they got it from... Or better yet just leave it out in the open uncovered or not hanging back where it was to begin with.

You may think I am bitter... Well I'm not. I am ashamed. People know better, they just don't care. I used to think it was lack of training... And maybe it is. I know I was trained right... By my parents.
Leave things better than I found it. Treat things as how you would like your things to be treated. So I guess along with being ashamed of these people I also feel sorry for them, apparantly they were raised (I would say by wolves, but that would be an insult to the wolves) wrong.

Sorry to hear about the cache Phat... It's a nice one. It was my 1000th.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Slayerette,

I have found 4 out of 200 caches left on top of the hiding place and/or left completely open. Could be muggles though all but one was out of the way. I have seen quite a few that I knew where not returned as designed. I have removed LOTS of Lighters, a roach clip, fireworks, a knife, a razor blade (gold plated), a pewter male genitalia charm, and a one billion stoned (mcd's knockoff) bumper sticker. I have had to black out two log entries that where riddled w/ profanity. One of the cachers responded to my e-mail about the use of profanity with a tirade that contained profanities I had never even heard yet .... This is the world we live in and anything open to the public is bound to have its issues. I would say, like the hiker murder, if you let these people deter you from the things you love, you imprison yourself in your own fear/anger/grief. You have provided countless people with well thought out caches. This has not been overlooked by the masses. You have inspired me and your persona is legendary. You should be proud of your caches and your reputation. I plan on carrying my cache repair kit to help avoid these disruptions to good folks. Also I am always available to check on anyones caches in the Hall County Area just e-mail me for my mobile.

If you have seen that many problems in 200 caches, you might want to consider relocating from that area of the state to Middle GA. Don't deny that I haven't seen some problems in caches, but not to the extent you describe....

quote:

If you have seen that many problems in 200 caches, you might want to consider relocating from that area of the state to Middle GA. Don't deny that I haven't seen some problems in caches, but not to the extent you describe....

I am intimately familiar with many of Fort Valley's men in blue and from what they tell me I will stay up here. Plus marshalville residents got mad at his ticket writing and burnt down the house of the officer I went to the academy with. To be fair.. The razor, roach clip where from south GA. The knife and charm where from TN. 3 of 4 open caches GA 1 TN. Lighters everywhere. Profanity written in the log of my 100th cache before me. Fireworks in Benchmarked II the day after the Jan. meeting. I was more pointing out that no matter the rules people will not take the time nor the concern to bother following them. How many folks drive the speed limit just because they are supposed to?

quote:

Originally posted by St.Michael:


Plus marshalville residents got mad at his ticket writing and burnt down the house of the officer I went to the academy with.

You may want to get your facts straight on this one.....no ticket writing...some of his officers just happened to handcuff a man and throw him in the back seat where he died...

I spent 23 years as a city judge in four communities in this area including the two you mentioned.....still haven't seen the problems in caches around here that you have encountered in 196 caches.

OK - I'm back in my Happy Place.
I've got to keep reminding myself - it's a GAME! Slay and St. Mich are correct - it is just the way of the world we live in today. We can't go back to 'the way it was', so we have to choose to play in it the way it is - or crawl in a hole and quit.

I'M PLAYIN!

I'll bring it back ... but it'll take a bulldozer to compromise it again.

Hell hath no fury than a pig scorned!

Hell hath no fury than a pig scorned!

You got that right!!!! PIGS RULE!!!
Poppoppig

... but I LOVE TinSparrows quote ...

"Nothing says chili like a pig in a swing."

quote:

Originally posted by phat.bak:
Hell hath no fury than a pig scorned!

Never scorned a good pig in my life.....only put good sauce on him...preferably Fincher's or Fresh Air sauce......

quote:

Originally posted by Tarvol:

Never scorned a good pig in my life.....only put good sauce on him...preferably Fincher's or Fresh Air sauce......

Both are good. I perfer Little Piggy tho.

Tread lightly ......

quote:

Originally posted by Tarvol:

quote:

Originally posted by St.Michael:


Plus marshalville residents got mad at his ticket writing and burnt down the house of the officer I went to the academy with.

You may want to get your facts straight on this one.....no ticket writing...some of his officers just happened to handcuff a man and throw him in the back seat where he died...

I spent 23 years as a city judge in four communities in this area including the two you mentioned.....still haven't seen the problems in caches around here that you have encountered in 196 caches.

Your facts unfortunately are not complete. The first incident is the one you refer to a few years back. ...A few month ago however they burnt down Officer Nichols house for ticket writing. Either way I don't see a justification in that.

Didn't try to justify anything, but the US Attorney's Office said the City (especially the police) had some real problems communicating in the community.....that's what happens in the tiny towns of GA where the pay is low and they have to hire folks that really have no business in the profession...law enforcement is a profession and there are a lot of folks in it that have no idea what that means.

I have been trying to talk about caching from the start of this, but apparently you keep wanting to take it somewhere else....this is really not the place for that...I plan on being at the GGA meeting barring the birth of a grandchild and I will be happy to take up the discussion of the incompetency among some members of the law enforcement community with you at that time. By the way, I have provided legal representation for some of the more competent members of the law enforcement community for 35 years.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Tarvol,

Ok then.. Thats funny. Don't poke a badger if you dont want it to bite.

Glad you're keeping your non-mtn caches Phat. Just as the game has changed for you, it's also changed for those of us that came into it later. It will continue to change and evolve too. You either roll with the punches or quit.