General Rants

[MitchM]

I signed up on the geocache website to see what other caches were around my area.
They're everywhere...

If any of you folks are interested, try signing up yourself. It's quite eye opening.

I went onto our local rural neighbourhood watch website and brought up the issue. My view has not been well received so far. People seem to be defending the practice of geocaching.

Oh well, another case where I'm glad I live away from most people, lol.

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[bettasngoldfish]

I've never even heard of this until now.

 

[Mucky_Waters]

Geocachers!

For the past couple of months we've seen an extreme increase in the number of unknown vehicles on our road and the people were getting out and snooping around our fence line.
Normally we see one strange vehicle per month down our road, usually it's someone that's lost. The last couple of months we've seen 30 new vehicles/month with the people getting out and wandering around.
I couldn't figure out why - are they stopping to go to the bathroom? Are they poachers looking for something in particular? Are they criminals looking to steal some property?

Finally I spent some time looking around the area and I found a small cylinder tied to one of our trees with a list of people that had been there.
It turns out some idiot had placed a geocache item on our property and people from who-knows-where were exploring our property.
If I were a criminal, geocaching would give me a great excuse to go to remote areas to "check things out"

I contacted the owner of the geocache and told him I removed his geocache and asked him to remove the location from the data base, which he did....to 1200 meters down the same road. I contacted one of our neighbours to let him know. This neighbour isn't as "diplomatic" as I am, so he got into it a bit with the guy...needless to say the geocache is gone from our neighbourhood completely now, lol.

On the surface geocaching seems like a harmless game, but from our point of view it opens our private property to criminals looking for an excuse to be there.

Geocaching: https://www.geocaching.com/play

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I believe they (the geocaching community) already have some rules about not placing geocaches on private property or in places dangerous to access, so it sounds like they were already breaking their own rules.
I don't know the circumstances of your property Mitch, but I know that sometimes it can be hard to distinguish private property from crown land unless you have a fence or conspicuously posted No Trespassing signs, or both.

 

[MitchM]

I've only been able to find guidelines for geocaching, but no real consequences for violating the terms.
We live on 160 acres of forest with a 4 wire barbed wire fence surrounding the entire property.
I have "no hunting" signs posted.
I don't want to have the type of property where there are signs "no trespassing", "beware of dogs", " surveillance cameras in use", ect.
With all this extra unknown traffic, I have started to keep our gates chained shut, I used to have them open all the time.
I know what you're saying though, Randy.

 

[MitchM]

In order to access this geocache, people had to climb over our fence. I have the paper where people signed their names, so I guess I have a record of these people trespassing.
Not very considerate.

 

[HARO]

My parents had a little over 10 acres out in the country. One day a car and trailer pulled into the driveway, around the garage, past the small barn and workshop, and started digging up small evergreens that we had planted a year or two earlier! Their excuse? "Oh, we thought it was crown land!" IDIOTS!
John

 

[TAHOE]

I hate thieves. I had a couple items stolen from my rental house while it was sitting empty, welder & pressure washer. then last week someone bustedin my back door, blew the door jam apart, stole our big TV, money, a ton of jewelry, my antique guns, our safe with all our SS cards, passports ,birth certificates, etc. We have a couple suspects that possibly could have done both, but no prove or any evidence to nail them....yet! We will find something.
Ugh, such a hassle.

 

[sissy]

I feel safe here .I think i will stay put .But i did buy security cameras off ebay .I can look at my pond and property when I am away .Piece of mind cost me 89 dollars for 4 cameras

 

[HARO]

My biggest rant? PIGS! Not the farmyard kind (I like bacon as much as anyone), but the kind that can't take their garbage home and put it where it belongs. Driving around the back roads here, it seems there's a beverage container of SOME kind every 25' or so. Paper coffee cups, water bottles, pop (and beer) cans, liquor bottles... you name it, it's out there. And of course there are the BIG boars who feel obligated to take bags of household waste out into the countryside to beautify the ditches!! We need to bring back capital punishment! For littering!!
John

 

[sissy]

I see that all the time here and it disgusts me big time .Litterbugs are stupid people .The other thing is people who spit there gum out and of course you step on it during a warm sunny day .YUCK

 

[peter hillman]

No one is more offended than a litterbug who's been told to pick up their trash!

 

[j.w]

Reminds me of years ago when my hubby was waiting in traffic when the guy in the car next to him threw a food wrapper out his car window. Hubby got out and picked up the wrapper and tossed it back in the guys window and said"I think you dropped this". The guy just looked at him in shock!

 

[morewater]

My latest hate are grocery stores that charge a nickel for plastic bags, claiming that they're doing it for the "environment".

I can remember when they bagged your groceries in paper bags, not plastic.

Now you have to buy paper bags to put your organic waste in for pick-up.

So, if the grocery stores used paper bags like they used to, they could serve double duty as organic waste bags, but then the grocery store wouldn't make 4.9 cents profit per bag and wouldn't be able to sell you organic waste bags, would they?

 

[Mucky_Waters]

My latest hate are grocery stores that charge a nickel for plastic bags, claiming that they're doing it for the "environment".

I can remember when they bagged your groceries in paper bags, not plastic.

Now you have to buy paper bags to put your organic waste in for pick-up.

So, if the grocery stores used paper bags like they used to, they could serve double duty as organic waste bags, but then the grocery store wouldn't make 4.9 cents profit per bag and wouldn't be able to sell you organic waste bags, would they?

I have a rant with the same system but on a different point.
My rant is they don't charge enough for those bag, 5 cents isn't enough. Charge at least 25 cents per bag and people will quickly start reusing their old bags or bringing cloth bags. Years ago people always use to bring their own bags or baskets to the market to carry groceries home in. When they started providing bags for people they likely didn't foresee the long term repercussions. This is one area where the way they did it in good old days was definitely best way, and it's one modern day environmental problem that is an easy fix.

 

[sissy]

I have reusable grocery bags I bought at krogers but my rant is walmart and foodlion tell you that you can't use them in there stores you need to buy there's .Wanna bet