Man Dies While Geocaching?
from the whoops dept
Geocaching, the process of creating little "caches" of random items for others to find after posting the GPS coordinates online has received some attention over the past few years -- mainly in stories about geeks trying to come up with something (please, anything) to do to justify their new GPS toys. However, it may get a bit of negative attention now. Apparently, a 64-year-old man fell to his death while trying to hunt down a geocache. The story doesn't call it geocaching, but calls it an "internet scavenger hunt" and mentions that he was "using a recently-purchased global positioning system to find his way," so it's likely he was just out geocaching, and slipped down a ravine. Anyone want to take bets on when the first article will come out that somehow describes geocaching as a dangerous "underground" activity? Update: Thanks to Trey for sending in an article with more detailed information, saying that, indeed, it was geocaching.
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Shouldn't We Be Banning GPSes Now?
We need a ridiculous knee-jerk reaction to be on par with camera-phone bans everywhere.
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Geosniping
Wouldn't it be cool if a jackass set up a sniper nest, and kept shooting all the geocachers approaching a location? Nerd holocaust.
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As someone, who together with my wife and other family members, enjoy geocaching and an appreciation of nature we encounter while geocaching, will try to keep in mind that not all the sickos in society, such as you, are behind bars yet.
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Re: Geosniping
aw, don't be so harsh. Dorpus is just like that, and the day his pie falls out of the sky Techdirt will lose a great deal of lustre. 8-)
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Re: Geosniping
Well, the best I can say is that Dorpus needs to grow up or get something beyond a ditigal life.
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So I guess the parenting police will be after me for letting my children participate in such a dangerous activity?
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Re: Geosniping
Sorry, it won't work. If nobody makes it back to log the cache then people will realize it's bogus and won't go look for it.
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Re: Geosniping
"Well, the best I can say is that Dorpus needs to grow up or get something beyond a ditigal life."
What would that something be? In my life, words on the screen have a tendency to turn into women who come out of airplanes. I'm still dealing with the aftermath of a woman who flew in from Japan to see me, her angry boyfriends have been calling me up every day, and since I'm not interested in her, she's been playing the standard Asian mind games -- "I've been throwing up a lot. Do you think I'm pregnant?" or "I have a terrible rash on my arm, I think it's a virus." Yeah, right. I got her to confess she's just BSing me.
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Re: Geosniping
Remember when Dorpus used to just post rants on how much he hated techies? The last 3 posts from Dorpus seems to crossed a line. They are all about killing somthing (mass murder flash mobs, killing video games, killing geo-cachers). I'm afraid his mental condition is worsening.
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Re: Geosniping
Oh and, if you want to play a free game where you want to kill as many civilians... er, I mean, terrorists, as possible, try this.
http://www.newsgaming.com/games/index12.htm
It's trying to make some cheesey liberal political statement, but the scurrying, crying civilians make it too funny.
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PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE DORPUS. THANK YOU.
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Re: Geosniping
It would be cool If geo-cachers were allowed to carry weapons and fire back at you.
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