Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You just reminded me of an episode a month or two ago. I was geocaching with a friend and as we drove toward the street where the cache should be we saw a pride of cop cars and cops. We turned left, parked, and headed to what our GPS units said was ground zero. One of the cops said that they were conducting an operation and would be please leave. At that moment, my partner was telling me: "The description states it's low and near an electric utility box." The cop pricked up his ears and got interested in us. We explain the geocaching operation and he let us retrieve the cache which was hanging by a thread on the other side of a masonry fence, a fence it was hard to see through. On the other side of the fence was a power substation and the cache was a black cylinder about two inches in diameter and about ten inches long. After it had been there for a week, a power station employee spotted it and called the cops. When we showed up, the bomb squad was on the way. After we showed the cops that it was harmless, they called off the bomb squad. We explained that we would send a written rocket to the guy who placed that cache and to the volunteer who reviewed and authorized it. Herb >The definition of vandal is fluid, I think. I have almost repressed >memories of flushing cherry bombs (the real ones) down the toilets >at school, so everyone sitting down got soaked. Or blowing >mailboxes off the wall with them. Sort of normal teenage behavior >way back then. Now there would be a homeland security and BATFE >investigation at least, instead of a police officer trying to keep a >straight face...pity. > >Ken > >On 1/13/2012 2:53 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: >>On Jan 13, 2012, at 2:47 PM, John Collier wrote: >> >>>Weren't we all little bastards once? >>probably to someone's way of thinking >> >>though not a vandal (in my case) >> >>YMMV >> >>Regards, >>George Lottermoser >>george at imagist.com >>http://www.imagist.com >>http://www.imagist.com/blog >>http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >> >> >> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you.