Originally Posted by
JustKev
I'm not saying that it wouldn't be offensive to me to be detained for NOT crossing the border while I was just going after a geocache. I'm saying a blanket bashing of the border patrol for doing their job is out of line. In today's world, where terrorism has become more prevalent, what's wrong with taking a few extra precautions when approaching the border to find a geocache? Why can't we look at it as the Border Patrol has a difficult job to do and why do we, as Geocachers, have to make it more difficult. Someone should just stop at the Border Patrol station and say, "This is what we're doing.". We've talked about approaching the state to see what we can do to be able to place more caches in state parks. If a group of cachers creates an issue over just one cache that's so close to the border how is that going to look when we try to place caches in the state parks? Even if you don't agree that the necessity exists for such stringent controls being in place at the border they are, in fact, in place. It's exactly the same premise as not agreeing that you should be required, by law, to wear your seatbelt. My personal feeling on seatbelts is that if you don't wear one you're a moron but there shouldn't be a law saying you have to wear one. I won't drive my car if someone in the car is unbuckled. It's either buckle up or get out and walk. If I couldn't get to the cache from the United States without disturbing the Border Patrol and I didn't have a passport the cache would simply go unfound by me.