Geocaching mishap

[nlindq]

Here's a frightening little story about paranoia and geocaching.

I love the quote, "They need to find another game."  Asshat.

(The original story is no longer available, so I'm pointing to the Google cache).

Comments

[canadian_worm]

The US is probably *not* the country of choice for such a game just right now.

The office has copies of Maxim in the library (which is funny since we have catalogs from Maxim ICs too). On the front of the one (honest) magazine I've seen, was an article on how "you can fight terrorism". The article included about 8 arabic words, like "wedding" and "feast" with simple translations into terrorist slang.

How long you figure before somebody off's somebody else over a common arabic word used on the payphone at the local convenience store?

[therealjae]

Wow. Too scary.

-J

[purplecthulhu]

So geocaching seems likely to go the way of Killer and other non-costumed LARPs...

Of course Killer players are not all sensible... One game I ran at college to rtaise money for charity caused a little trouble when two over-enthusiastic players decided to hit their target inside a local bank. The fact that they did this with full black outfits, including masks, and water pistols that looked like HK MP5 submachineguns didn't help. The local (heavily armed) diplomatic police force were not amused.

That was more than 15 years ago. These days we might not be laughing about it but might be burying people.

[canadian_worm]

I assume the rules to "Killer" are much like our "The Assassination Game (TAG)?" You didn't have any boundaries or time limits?

In engineering, we always played TAG such that A > B > C > D ... Z > A. When you get your target, then you get that persons target. The ring gradually gets smaller until only 2 people are left, and then finally one. There can be only one!

[purplecthulhu]

It was along those lines...

There was no explicit boundaries, but they were told not to be stupid. The time limit was a week, and it was intended as a one on one circle of death.

But some people never play by the rules!

[canadian_worm]

I think I may have told Little Worm, maybe once, or twice, "don't be stupid" (when he was acting up).

That advice doesn't work with a 4 year old any better than it does with adults....