<conspiracy theory>On a side note (and hopefully taken with humor in mind), Jeremy identified is as an Earthlink customer who was playing the role of the elusive cache_pirate.  The only cacher posting to this listserv from an earthlink.net e-mail address is Team Tierra Buena.</conspiracy theory>

BUSTED! We confess!

We were on the grassy knoll, too.

And we loaned our bulk tape eraser to Rose Mary Woods.

In case those references are too ancient for you, we also belong to the secret cabal that sets retail gasoline prices in Arizona.

<Insert smiley, winking, just-kidding emoticon of choice here>

Seriously, all we can do is deny it. We’ve been too busy to do any caching at all let alone pull this kind of crap. I’ve stayed out of the discussion until now because of lack of time and the fact that others have already made this point. Permit me to state our position now, though, just in case someone missed Brian’s parenthetic remark above about taking his remark with humor in mind:

The following is from the geocaching.com FAQ page (http://www.geocaching.com/faq.asp):

What are the rules in Geocaching?

Geocaching is a relatively new phenomenon. Therefore, the rules are very simple:

1. Take something from the cache

2. Leave something in the cache

3. Write about it in the logbook

Where you place a cache is up to you.

According to the official web site then, there are only three rules. (To my mind, they kind of rank up there with Newton’s laws and Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics.) If there are only three rules, and the pirate is violating one of them, it ain’t Geocaching.

And it ain’t us.

No offense taken, Brian.

Steve

Team Tierra Buena