Topic: Geocaching is Dangerous!! Article: Temple-Waco News

[bografan]

Found while on Fark.com:

"Popular past time can turn dangerous and illegal"


http://www.kxxv.com/global/story.asp?s=11890676

[bobisculous]

Wow. That is a horribly written and terribly investigated article.

She hardly explained the activity and smeared it from the word 'go.'

[Mr. ZHR]

Where is the danger part of the article?

[Specialis Revelio]

Was there supposed to be a specific cache that was done in by a sicko? I don't really understand the point of that article.

I just lost two minutes of my life that I will never get back now from reading that article. Thanks Korn.

[Sky Rookie]

Was there supposed to be a specific cache that was done in by a sicko? I don't really understand the point of that article.

I just lost two minutes of my life that I will never get back now from reading that article. Thanks Korn.

HAHA.... SR making me laugh again.
True though, don't see the danger. As SR can atest to, my driving from cache to cache is much more dangerous then any other experince I've ever had finding a cache. Did anyone write to the editor of that webpage?

[PARKERPLUS]

Did you look at the attached video of the newscast.  They showed the coords for GC10WKA,  FALLING ROCK,  and some long shots of a couple of light pole caches near a Wal-Mart and another place.   

Notice the shoes the reporter was wearing, much less the attire she was wearing to be walking/hiking along a open trail in Cameron Park in Waco

There were some 170 replyies to the article directly to the News Station.  At least one was deleted

[Great Birds]

So typical of small market TV news reporters.  Light on information and long on scare tactics.  And a great big thanks goes out to them for mentioning that whackos could put something dangerous in caches, thus giving a wider array of whackos the idea.

[georeynozos]

I agree with SR, what a waste of airtime.  The story was vague and incomplete....gimme a break.  I would have rather watched paint dry than this BS!! 

[ATMA]

Tom, we were thinking the same thing when we watched the video feed. Perfect, just tell them all about it and next thing you know there is a real problem. The media... !

[Specialis Revelio]

Look at the cache that was featured.

It says that women shouldn't do this one alone...

[OHail]

That link leads to a page which says it is an unpublished cache.

[ggmorton]

Try this link instead.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC10WKA

[jackrock]

Look at the cache that was featured.

It says that women shouldn't do this one alone...

Hmmm, if Cameron Park is so dangerous a woman should not go alone, then there should be no caches there.   

Too dangerous, that's rich.

[OHail]

The way I read ths from the cache page "--Bring a buddy with you! Women especially should not do this cache alone." is that NO ONE should do that one alone.