hehehe. Tonight I saw a very brief news story about cell towers in our
National Parks ... and now we have a controversy. I didn't get the full
story and I will be looking into this later, but the gist was we have a
problem of cell phones ringing in National Parks. Those in the know,
please enlighten us. Is it a problem because we didn't have a national
policy in place prohibiting cell towers and some parks permitted them?
It's okay for some of the parks to have towers, but not all parks? I
guess you cannot ban phone usage in the parks when you have a tower in the
same location. The media reported the defense that "if it saves one life,
then we should allow them." I wasn't impressed with the example of the
life saved; a skier chose to be in an "off-limits" area and severely
injured himself. Without the cell phone he said he would not have been so
lucky. I would have more compassion for someone who was not breaking the
law and needed immediate assistance.

I guess I was shaking my head in disbelief that this was newsworthy today.
National Parks would have been one of my top picks where I wouldn't
expect to hear the obnoxious ring tones.

I just have one final word on appropriate cell usage in National Parks and
other public places...vibrate.

speedsquare

--- mjpepe1@comcast.net wrote:

> Wow I have an idea!
>
> Why dont we all purchase one of those hand held devices that the
> grocery stores use to keep inventory you know, the ones that scan the
> products on the shelves? Then we can have all placers paste UPC codes on
> the bottom of each of their letterboxes.
>
> When were walking in the woods, all we have to do is wave that
> electronic magic wand in the area we THINK the letterbox is hidden and
> it will automatically find it for us AND record the find in a letterbox
> in a specially devised software program sold by Letterboxing.org. We
> won't even get our hands dirty or have to deal with yuckky snakes or
> worry about closing the containers or zip lock bags.
>
> Just wave and go!
>
> Great idea?
>
> Mark [with tongue firmly in cheek]



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