Luckily for the rest of my team when I tag along I know more then half the police. However I was recently alone attempting to get a FTF which due to that wicked GPS bounce I was stuck standing in the middle of a creek with no signs of finding the Cache.
At that point I called for back up who said she would be there in 15 mins that she would call when she got to the entrance to the park, we hung up and no sooner did I put my phone back in my pocket and attempt to make my way out of the creek did it go off again. Mind you this is a police officer calling my phone.
"Hello?"
"Hi, Liz? its Sgt Bain******"
"Oh, hey Joe whats up?"
"Where are you? Well rather, why is your car sitting on Pine Lane?"
"Pine lane? I'm on Houston.. well the car is at least, wait.. I'm in the middle of a creek..how'd you know it was me?"
At this point Joe asked if i was alright and what the heck I was doing in the middle of a creek, to which I explained things to him and he just laughed. Said the residences saw a person leave the car, go into the woods and had not yet come back, they were slightly worried and suspicious. Understandably so as I had been wondering around for more then 2 hours.
Unfortunately my back up did arrive and we did not find the cache.. according to the log, it still has yet to be found by a second person (1 find/ftf)
And while I may never know the poor soul who i did this too, while en route to a fire call i saw some one going for a cache that had been fixed a day earlier, however on the way back to the fire house on our rescue spotted the same poor soul still searching, I felt pretty bad he hadn't found it yet, so out the window I shouted at him to look "go left!" Last I saw i think he was still trying to stop his heart from pounding.
