Posted on 08/08/2013 12:40:57 AM PDT by Daffynition
.....It’s a geocache (gee-oh-cash).
And finding these modern-day treasure chests is worth more than the hunt, devotees say.
“It gets you outside — gets you exercise. And while your mind can wander while you’re walking, it makes you think, solve puzzles,” says Kevin Venator, 45, a Johnson County geocacher.
Interest is very high in the sport right now, Venator said. “It’s exploding,” he said.
Geocaching has become so popular that cities have had to wrestle with the hobby. If a geocacher looks out of place or suspicious, homeowners might call police. That could result in an altercation.
The practice recently came up at a Leawood City Council meeting. Council members asked their parks and recreation director, Chris Claxton, if they needed to issue a policy or ordinance to regulate the practice.
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I’ve never even seen a Geocache on private property; there are enough parks around so they’re not needed, and in northern NJ there are large state parks that are used to hide them.
Because I appeal to the children’s greed about what they might find, they don’t like micros.
Beware of muggles!
I don’t see it as a hobby, more like exercise while I pursue my interest in history. There is something to be said about walking through what would appear to be pristine woods and coming upon roads, mines, and abandoned cemeteries that pre-date the independence of this country. I take GPS coordinates of various items (since they’re almost gone already), take pictures, and work up a sweat; my children were underground in old iron mines before they were 10 years old.
People certainly could be doing a lot worse...
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That picture’s great! When we go it looks like something out of Apocalypse Now (military surplus is dirt cheap at the nearby Meadowlands Flea Market near Giants Stadium). I even got this little Red Chinese folding shovel, about half the size of a US entrenching tool, that functions as a perfect little sh!t-pit digger. The old BDU pants are getting harder to find (the old woodland camo pattern); I prefer the buttons to the new Velcro crap any day of the week. I see them for sale in catalogs for $50, but got used to paying $5 for them. Also, you need to wear socks that you wouldn’t mind using as toilet paper.
I’m not familiar with “Running Man”; is it something like MXC/extreme elimination challenge with the Japanese people? Their voices were dubbed over by American comedians while they went through various obstacle courses (like a savage version of “Wipeout”); I realize Japanese people are tougher than I gave them credit for when you would watch some of the women take shots to the head and still get back up. The grossest thing was watching how some of them would bend their spines the wrong way; in the midst of dying laughing you’d want to throw up.
Nothing that extreme. “Running Man” in Korea is usually very humnorous.
MXC was a comedy; I believe the Japanese show they were using was a game show. There was nothing serious about it at all, but some of the suggestive dialogue made it impossible to watch as the kids grew older.
Japanese society is very perverted.
I stick to online Korean shows right now.
The Japanese were mild (in the original program); it was dubbed & edited by American comedians to make it a filthy comedy.
I’ve done this with my son, it’s fun. It figures the nannystatists would want to regulate it.
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