On a multi-cache today, I stumbled upon somebody's little marijuana garden in some dense brush. Introduced a few cops to geocaching. Here's my log from the cache:
"Nice job on stage 2! Twice! TN, left signature card and signed log. Find #34 for me.
Oh and speaking of cache in, trash out, here's a funny story about today..
As I was heading from the first stage to the second through the dense brush, I came a cross a little clearing. I looked down and saw an interesting sight... a dozen marijuana plants freshly planted/transferred! I marked a quick waypoint and finished the cache.
I went back home and called Sterling Heights Police and told them I was geocaching in one of their parks and discovered a different kind of stash. They had an officer meet me back there. I gave him a quick rundown of geocaching and took him back to the waypoint. He was pretty entertained with it. Two other officers joined us as they destroyed the plants and bagged up the remains.
The other two officers asked about the situation, and I explained that I was doing a multi-cache, and had discovered this in between two of the points. They said "Well, did you find the cache?", smiling. I said "Of course!". They were amused that in such a dense area in the middle of nowhere, somebody had thought they would never be discovered, but got busted by a geocacher!
Funnier still, was the perpetrator's low-tech way of finding the spot. Blue ribbons tied to trees..lol. We removed the ribbons on the way out too. There were a couple neighbors in the parking lot when we came back out of the woods that asked me what was going on (there were 2 police cruisers and a police Yukon there). I gave them a 10 second run down on geocaching and told them I was cleaning up their neighborhood. They loved it! "