Helweh

Haha, I get it, maybe I am just naive, but I just don't like finding things I'd be embarrassed to find with kids. I've found questionable items before, but never something like that. I think maybe I just did the best thing...threw it out, put something more kid-friendly in its place and moved on.

That's what I pretty much figured. It angered me that someone would leave something like that for kids to find, but I just disposed of it and "traded" it for a toy I left. I guess I'm just looking for confirmation I did the right thing.

Hi all, I have been caching for several years now, and thankfully, I have never run into this issue until now. I recently found a cache that had a COMPLETELY inappropriate item in it. We're not talking something questionable that someone new to Geocaching left and honestly didn't know was inappropriate. I opened the cache, dug through it, and found a half-smoked joint inside. Of course I immediately disposed of it, so that kids wouldn't find it, but what do you do in cases like that? If I were a parent and found that with my kids, my immediate reaction might have been "Ok, that's it. No more caching!" which definitely has a detrimental effect on the community. I think caching is a great activity for families, and I wouldn't want anyone to be turned off to it by something like that they found in the cache. I'm just glad I found it first and was able to take care of it. What do you do in those instances? The cache was placed in January by someone fairly new to caching, and I would really like to believe that even though it was someone new, that they wouldn't do something like that. I am inclined to believe it may have been local kids who found the cache by chance and thought it would be funny to leave a "surprise."