Replicated from the GGA EZBoard:

Ramness570
Registered Geocacher
(11/6/01 2:24:51 am)
Another reason not to leave pocket knives in caches

saw this note for a cache of mine in AL.

"First hunt. Thanks rockhopper for telling me about geocaching. Didn't have a gps yet, but located the coordinates on a Delorme topoquad program and printed a map. Got lucky! Sherry found it, but stabbed her finger with your pocket knife. Left a whistle."

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lmoseley
BigDog
(11/6/01 5:32:12 pm)
ezSupporter

Re: Another reason not to leave pocket knives in caches

I am willing to go along with the Ga Parks people on this issue, if that is what we have to do to get permission to geocache in parks... but I think all this to-do over knives in caches is silly, just silly.

Adults and older kids should be able to cope with finding a cache with a knife in it without going bezerk and turning into a slasher. And young kids -- which I assume "Sherry" is -- should not geocache unsupervised. The "knife" could just as easily been broken glass, or a snake, or a scorpion, of a yellow jacket nest, or....

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Gossamyrrh
Registered Geocacher
(11/6/01 10:09:50 pm)
Re: Another reason not to leave pocket knives in caches

"but I think all this to-do over knives in caches is silly, just silly"

In a perfect world, it would be. Yes, it could be broken glass, yellow jackets, ect....but you can't neccesarily place direct blame on those.

In a C.Y.A.W.P. maneuver, I specifically requested on my info sheet for Shifting Tides to NOT leave any knives. If I find a knife in the cache, I remove it. Period.

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GeneGarris
Registered Geocacher
(3/3/02 2:03:32 pm)
Re: Another reason not to leave pocket knives in caches

I think that if you had left a trash bag that same person whom cut herself would have placed that bag over her head and suffocated on the side of the trail.