[IYAS9YAS]

Geocachers have destroyed 18th century remote and rural cemeteries in my area, and in some cases, have damaged or stolen irreplaceable wrought iron fencing around family plots.

I used to geocache, then life got in the way. My wife and I, and all those we knew who geocached, were always respectful of private property, and would never have damaged anything, taken something (other than the take something/leave something in some of the caches).

Some folks are simply disrespectful, but it's certainly not the entire group being so. I've often wondered if some folks find these things and ruin them just do it to piss others off, regardless of the medium.

[Salamander]

The ones playing here are outlanders, not locals.

If not for Geocaching, they’d never have found these remote cemeteries.

City people pay big money for “architectural elements” like those beautiful wrought iron works.

Whoever took them was careful to bring equipment enough to rip them out by the roots.

Not casual vandalism at all.

It’s heart breaking to see things that have stood unmolested for centuries, so savagely ripped from their place.

I know it’s not locals as we are all incredibly superstitious about disturbing the dead.