Targeting Geocachers

There are dark events brewing in Charlotte, South Carolina for fans of the great activity of geocaching.

A combination of a misunderstanding and a politician in need of cheap political capital has resulted in the scapegoating of the entire sport of geocaching.

This unreasonable situation has led to the following news story:

Strangers caught trekking into graveyards or historical sites could earn time in jail playing the modern scavenger hunt known as geocaching

I will, no doubt, be covering htis story in more detail as time passes. For now, this is a head-up for geocachers everywhere. I cannot tell what the repercussions will be here, but the idea of making walking in certain otherwise publicly accessible places illegal just because of a misunderstanding with one geocacher (which the geocaching community has risen to try to recitfy) is something like watching a slow-motion train wreck in action.

More later on this story.

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