What's the etiquette, here?

Haggis Hunter · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:23 am Post subject:

After what happened last year with the Royal Botanic Gardens. (cache definitely placed inside the grounds without permission).
I think this would be the best course of action. It will also keep geocaching in the correct light, and prove that you are looking after the area.
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McPharisee · Founder member Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 19

There's aprroximately 0.3 miles between the car park and one of my cache locations. One of our well known local cachers has placed two micro caches in that distance Crying or Very sad

Billy Twigger · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:37 pm Post subject: Looking for a new Mummy

Reading the posts here has made me come out in a rather unpleasant rash of propriety. I have Scrabo
I have to say that it was no holiday.
I placed the cache, Your Honour, while working on a longish term project in Belfast which is now all done and dusted. Sad

I didn't really want to hide a cache in Nornirn, but Pooter, in an unguarded moment said "I'll soon have all of Billy Twiggers caches!"
So in a way Pooter made me do it. Twisted Evil

So.... how do I get Scrabo adopted? (Apart from it being close to Newtonards, its really a very nice cache!)

Wildlifewriter · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:37 pm Post subject:

I finally received a reply from this... from the cache owner...

In it, he claims to have hidden another cache in the same area, but cannot get it approved - and states that all this was done (quote) "to enhance your puzzle cache, gives cachers some thing to do along that path."

This is doing my head in...

...what did I do, that these nutters are travelling all the way from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, just so that they can "enhance" my geocache?

-Wlw.

Billy Twigger · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:42 pm Post subject:

You are allowed to remove it - but only if you take General de Chastelain out with you to confirm it.

Wildlifewriter · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:46 pm Post subject:

Wildlifewriter · Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:46 pm Post subject:

Update on this...

Following a phone call this afternoon, I went round to the LVR Park (it's only a mile from my home) where I was handed the offending cache. It had been found by park staff during grass cutting and weed clearance along the canal towpath.

An uncomfortable discussion ensued, as they seemed to think that I was in some way responsible - perhaps because I'd previously told the park mangers that Geocaching was a responsible and self-regulating hobby, wherein such things weren't allowed to happen...

I'm going to send it back to the cache owner, if he gives me a postal address, or to Lisburn City Council Refuse Dept, else.

Without going into Haggis Hunter mode, I can't help feeling a little suspicious about the whole thing:-

- This character (who is a known holiday cache hider) comes all the way over here from Tyneside, hides two caches within a few hundred metres of mine... logs the adjacent ones, but doesn't hunt for ANY others - even though there are several good ones within a few miles - and then clears off back home.

None of it makes sense. Unless...

... unless someone in Ireland put him up to it. Question