I certainly hope this was not someones idea of a game 🙁

I’m a geocacher but this is terrible please don’t judge us all on this persons behaviour

Cruel and sick and heartless. I hope William is returned to his family please safe and sound.

A rather cruel & thoughtless thing to do.

I’ve done geocaching before. I certainly hope the message on the tree wasn’t linked to the geocache as that’s in really bad taste. I can’t think of any reason why someone would need to spray that message as geocaching encourages looking after the environment instead of desecrating it and bringing poor William into it is terrible.

I just hope he is alive and safe and well.

This is not a game. This is real life and continues to be a source of such tragedy for this family. I truly hope for them that they receive some closure in the future.

My heart goes out to William’s family.

I just wish this little boy could be brought home safe and sound. I cant imagine how this family must feel, and then for this to happen, youd get a spark of hope and then it all comes crashing down again.

Not very funny really – why would you use this horrible problem as a reason for a game? I also wasn’t happy to see A Current Affair harassing people that the police had already questioned over this affair- how hurtful to the parents and grandmother having to see this, and with no really good outcome. Let the police do their work – TV shows should but out.

That’s pretty sick. I’m not up with this geocaching stuff but surely there is something else they could have used!

To do such a thing is “sick”. The people who put the geocache things there may not be guilty of painting the tree. That would make it too easy for others to find the items. I know people in groups in Aust. who do geocache and they always hide the items well, not leave them visible. Those I know have never been overseas. There is plenty of locations in our states

So horrible to use something like this as part of a game!

I straight away thought of geocaching but im not sure why they would think its ok to write that message on the tree stump.

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  • • mom94125 replied
    • 28 Feb 2016 , 3:51 pm

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  yeah i hadn’t heard of it until this article. i had to google what geo-catching actually was

Lke jh

Geocaching can be very entertaining but this is a cruel and insensitive move for William’s family and for the police involved in the search. Be safe William.

Very sad, I hope William is brought home safe and those responsible are caught

This would be awful for his family.

It’s hard to believe that there are people out there with no empathy, sympathy, or morals.

Disgusting that someone made light of a very tragic story and included it as part of a game.