Originally posted by leddite:
[QB]hey, don't let this happen to you!
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2002/08/08 /build/world/60-geocaching.inc
I'll admit, the ability to express and exchange the exact location of any point of interest on the planet allows increasing numbers of people to congregate.
The raiding of archeological sites has been occuring throughout history, even before GPS.
It's so much easier to blame a group or individual when a convenient name is left nearby. The evidence is pretty flimsy and tries to paint a broad swath of blame on a large geocaching community. Let's see... the destructive culprits leave their names and organization nearby in a logbook?
You bet I'd love to find some of the vandals that screw up my favorite outdoor places.
Some very strange cultural values have allowed the wholesale elimination and enslavement of any number of indigeneous native peoples in a methodical, bloody manner, while stealing their land. And then we become enraged when some misguided explorer mistreats/steals a few dead, dusty relics of that culture. (which by the way, should NOT be located near a geocache site). There's plenty public places of hard rock or tree roots to hide a little box in that won't make land managers go nuts.
Sometimes I wonder... how long until todays geocaches to become tommorows artifacts?
Sorry, Rant over.
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Greenjeens