Thursday, 5 August 2010

Stealth for private property caches - is it warranted or even wise?


I found this post interesting and thought provoking.  When it comes to lamp post caches in parking lots or parking garage caches or caches on store/office property. is it better to not be stealthy or sneaky?:

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(wimseyguy @ Aug 5 2010)

Owners who demand stealth from seekers are misguided. If I am confronted by security or law enforcement, I will simply stop what I am doing and explain it to them. I have every right to expect that you do have permission to place this cache there, and will share that with security. If they are not aware that the cache is placed with permission, and they remove it thinking it is a suspicious object, that becomes your problem, not mine. I'm off to find the next cache.

PS-My Slogan=caching since 2002/plenty of honest conversations with security and LEO's

I agree with this completely! I make no attempts to be stealthy, I just walk up to GZ and start searching. If somebody sees me retrieving and removing the cache, it's not my problem -- it's the COs problem for putting it somewhere inappropriate. In these terrorism-crazed times, the LAST thing I want to do is to act "stealthy" or "sneaky" while removing/replacing a small container in a public place. If a cop pulls up while I'm searching, I keep searching until he walks up to me an addresses me. I'm not doing anything wrong or illegal, however, if I'm acting "sneaky" or "stealthy", than it sure looks like I'm doing something wrong or illegal which is why I refuse to do it.

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