This is the second article published in Thisweek newspaper and the story is still not correct about the incident involving my geocache named Halloween 2008 BONUS: Coughin Up A Lung.

You can read the article online on the Thisweek Live website  by clicking here.

Since Thisweek is not capable of any investigative work, let me make a couple of comments to help set the record straight.  First, the geocache was not something left over from Halloween.  Guidelines on geocaching.com forbid temporary geocaches.  Coughin Up A Lung was not temporary and it was not just left over.  It was a viable, active, popular, and highly maintained geocache.  The geocache logged over 40 finds in it's short 8 month life, and considering it was a mystery cache, this was a phenominal feet.  The second thing to be pointed out is that the article implies there was something inherently dangerous about this cache.  Nothing could be further from the truth..  it was nothing more than a Halloween prop, not so different than what I see on my neighbor's front porch during the Halloween season.  The actual geocache container was the typical container used in geocaching; a painted .30 caliber ammunition can purchased at Fleet Farm.  The container was stuffed with child friendly Halloween themed trinkets purchased from Target Stores.

One thing is for certain, the article speaks volumes about the REAL reason for the harrassment I received from the Sheriff's Department earlier in the year.  It had NOTHING to do with geocaching and everything to do with saving face.  I would imagine the embarrassment caused by the needless deployment of county assets meant someone should pay.

You can read about the construction of the geocache by clicking here.

You can read more about incident by clicking here.  You can also read my response to the county contemplating the issuance of a citation by clicking here.  You can read the Sheriff's Department Newsletter here.