New Geocaching Legislation for South Carolina

Effective June 2, 2009, South Carolina has joined the ranks of the over reacting stupid. In a knee-jerk reactionary measure, they have followed neighboring State Georgia in banning geocaching on all wildlife management areas, heritage preserves, and all other lands owned by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. H3794 was signed by the governor (please vote him out for this stupidity) and a person violating the new law is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not less than twenty five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars or be imprisoned for not more than thirty days, or both.

One of my former bosses and one of the best I have yet to work for had a saying:

"YOU DON'T SPANK ALL THE PUPPIES WHEN ONE OF THEM SHITS THE BED!!"

Based on the article members of the SC DNR staff have found geocaches placed in sensitive areas on at least three Heritage Preserves. So based on a few geocaches in the wrong places, the SC DNR decides to have a knee-jerk reaction and ban geocaching in all state parks and land. BRILLIANT Idea Idiots! You already bitch and whine about funding and services and now you take an entire group of people who love to be in parks and the outdoors, and pay parking fees to do so, and tell them that they (and their money) aren't welcome anymore. Next year when State Park revenues are down and you're scratching your collective asses trying to figure out where the money went, just remember you brought this upon yourselves.

Its not like people that place geocaches are anonymous. Contact information for EVERY cache owner is documented on geocaching.com and easily accessible. Creating an account is FREE, easy, and just in case figuring out how to compose and send an email is beyond your technical abilities, there is a neat "Send Message" feature built right into the site on every users Profile page. Its that easy. Hell, all a state official has to do is contact Groundspeak and request that the caches be removed and no more allowed in certain areas and that request would be honored. Approvers would be informed of the No Caching zones and no further cache approvals would be granted. Its that fracking simple. No law required. No time wasted legislating what could be EASILY controlled without wasting tax payers money and representatives time crafting an unnecessary law.

Don't you have better things to be doing with your time and tax money?

How about fixing your damn roads! Every time I pass through your state its like driving on 1800's cobblestone streets. Sheez, how hard is it to pour smooth roads???