The WWFMs are coordinated geocaching events. A flash mob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, do something unusual for a brief period of time, then quickly disperse. These events take place simultaneously at locations across the globe.
The event will last exactly 15 minutes, not one second longer. The event will begin EXACTLY at: 2:00 PM on Saturday, June 9, 2012 and will end at EXACTLY 2:15 PM. You MUST be present and sign a log sheet DURING this time to claim the event.
The above coordinates will take you to the designated WWFM IX gathering place. This location is very familiar to the people of Pictou County, Nova Scotia – outside of the Scott Weeks Sports Complex in New Glasgow.
The event will have an old autos car theme - bring your old classic or antique car to the event. If you don't have a car, come out anyway. There is NO requirement that you have to have an Antique or Classic Vehicle to attend. The Beagle Clan will have their 1930 Ford Model A Roadster at the event. Lets see how many we can get in the official event picture.
PRIOR TO THE EVENT:
• Drive to the parking area near the coordinates. Either stay in your car or get out of your car and pretend you are a muggle. Act like you don't know anyone else.
• At 1:59 PM - make your way to the designated event coordinates shown. Keep acting like you know no one.
• 2:00 PM - At exactly 2:00 PM as determined by the GPS clock and a whistle will blow, a container will be placed near the designated coordinates and a signal will be given to signify the start of the event. You may then converge on the container for the official event. Log sheets will be handed out. BYOP (bring your own pen). Sign individual log sheets and drop them in the cache bucket. Then mingle and chat with your fellow cachers.
• 2:05 PM - Bring travel bugs and or coins to exchange with friends and or discover.
• 2:10 PM - Assemble for and take group photo (with the old cars in the background.
• 2:14 PM - One minute warning is called "It is now 2:14!" Log slips will be pulled for the door prizes. FTF will be drawn at this time. Clean up and prepare to leave. Prepare to make your grand exit or stay around to llo at the old cars.
FTF DRAW PRIZE WILL BE AN UNACTIVATED GEOCOIN. There will be draws for several other items keeping in the theme of geocaching and old autos.
• 2:15 PM - Make like a muggle and LEAVE the area! Log entries sealed & closed. If you missed the signing you missed the event.
Difficulty rating of 2 reflects the 15 minute allotted time period in which to claim the cache. If you aren't prompt you could miss it.
If your name is not on a log sheet you will not be able to log the event.
If everything goes right we will have several people (and their cars) converging on one spot for a 15 minute geocaching event and then disappearing. This could be lots of fun and maybe even raise a few muggle eyebrows. Don't worry I suspect that there will be a lot of them around this area at the time of the event.
The event will happen rain or shine! Please come prepared.
We will be ordering a couple of WWFM IX Geocoins for the event - one geocoin will be drawn for the FTF Prizes. Names for several other prizes will also be drawn
For more information see:
https://sites.google.com/site/wwfminfo/
This will be the 6th WWFM Event that we (PNB/JLC) have hosted and the 7th that we have attended. pnutbeagle only only missed the first 2 events and I (jleecollins) missed the first 2 and missed the 7th event due to truck problems.
The last WWFM VIII Event, held in June 2011, had 9,940 attendees for 215 different events in 25 countries around the world.