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Re: Anderson Cooper, kidnapped?
Board: Letterboxing In the News
Reply to: #89242 by Bungalow Boxer
May 1, 2007 5:54am
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I don't think that it can be surmised that it was the publicity that caused the box to disappear, since there was quite a gap between the news release and the suspicious rise in hits. Here's what the webpage says:
Quote Our clue was posted only at www.atlasquest.com however, last fall a travel writer publicized our box in an online news release, which attracted attention by Anderson Cooper fans. Some of them sent us outrageous and nutty e-mails and requests, but the box was never vandalized or stolen...until now.

As far as we know, there hasn't been any recent publicity about our letterbox but we did notice an exorbitant number of hits on our clue. Around 50 hits within the two weeks prior to the kidnapping.


The article was written months ago and the box survived the rest of the Fall season, the Winter season and half of the Spring season. Looks like the owner will replace the box and continue the fun. They may want to put an F1 (or more) restriction on it if they feel it was publicity that was the culprit, it may deter some nefarious types. But personally I would recarve and replant, and check off the 'hide from search engines' box. If it happened a 2nd time I'd either retire it or put an F restriction on it.

In the wise words of Rick Simpson (posted on the LBNA discussion group):

"... we all put a lot of time and energy into our boxes, and we should realize that once you plant a box, you loose control. It's no longer a personal keepsake. It's not on a shelf in your house. Your box takes on a life of it's own. It's constantly interacting with the elements, animals and other boxers. Things can and will go wrong, but things also go wonderfully right most of the time.

The whole LB community is based on a gift of sharing with strangers, which inherently has risk. There is no reward without the risk."
Re: Anderson Cooper, kidnapped?
Board: Letterboxing In the News
Reply to: #89209 by Green Tortuga
May 1, 2007 8:22am
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They're kidding, right?

-HG