Paintballers are loose!

[hikenit]

Is anyone keeping up with the news on paintballers vandalizing area parks? Chickamauga Battlefield was on the news yesterday showing all the defaced monuments that will take thousands of dollars to clean up, some beyond repair. But it's not the only area.

Keeping up with cachers post is a thing I like to do, but when I read post from multiple cache sites about paintballers messing up the place, it infuriates me to no end.

Here is a post from Springvale; KD4ADC & son, 10:50am #202. We gingerly tiptoed through all the paintball mess in the parking lot and found the cache easily.

Here is another from my cache "Detour The Autobahn"; I'm wondering if this has been purloined by youngish paintball-playing-geo-muggles. They were all in the bushes. I packed out a bunch of spent CO2 carts and spent balls.

Though my cache might be gone, it doesn’t bother me that it is may or may not be, and that I don't have the time to run out there and see at the moment. What gets me is that these tyrants are messing up the places that I like to go and wonder through nature. Please, if you see this activity going on while caching, please report it to the proper people. I'm not asking anyone to be a tattletale but just to help keep a clean caching environment for all to enjoy.

Thanks!

[sparc77]

Yup, Seen the same thing in other places. At first I didn't know what the heck it was. Even more than the spent CO2 cannisters and paint balls is the throroughly trampled environement. It looked almost like a heard of wilderbeasts had stampeded through there.

[glow=red,2,300]What a mess[/glow]

[overTHEhill]

Hello, a very sneaky way to do this is to know your enemy! You research his activities and lurk on his websites. Search for paintball, chattanooga, tennessee, georgia, alabama, etc. If you can find any activitiy logs for the area of damage and the date, you are on the right track!!! ;D