Bad Things Found In A Geocache

[+arcticcatmatt]

I recently read about a cache that someone found that was filled with urine and a note that said "sign this log if your a butthead"...

 

I want to hear of the other bad things people have found. I am guessing that this mostly happens when a muggle discovers the cache. And this is the first time I have heard of something bad. The certain cache I am talking about was hidden in a playground area somewhere.

 

I would love to catch someone doing that. I hope we never have to get to the days where we have to set up a "trail cam" (used for finding deer) to keep an eye on our caches.

[WH]

Is this considered bad?

[+Jennifer&Dean]

Expired Pills. Expired "Morning After" pills in a sample package. Left by someone who thought it would be funny to pepper caches with things like these. Ick.

Also- Paper towels used as toilet paper exchanged for the contents of a TB Depot cache. Ick!!!!

-J

[+Team Cotati]

Is this considered bad?

If it was bad you wouldn't have posted it would you?

[+smgkag]

We recently found two rusted Xacto knives in a cache. A couple of months ago my five year old got his personal FTF--and found a comic book depicting drug use, murder, and "walking dead."

[+briansnat]

I like to play a joke on cache owners and fill the container with shaving cream.

[+andersonranchero]

WH, just wondering

 

Is that your signature item? It is green.

[+hoovman]

I once found some nicotine gum marked "keep away from children".

[+reveritt]

Is this considered bad?

I recommend the product in question. It is a legitimate personal hygiene product with a rather unusual marketing strategy.

[+Scoobie10]

Several months ago I found an adult...umm....."toy" left in a cache that has a 1/1 rating therefore attracting cachers with kids.

 

Way bad form.

 

Scoob

[+JMBella]

I like to play a joke on cache owners and fill the container with shaving cream.

THAT WAS YOU, YOU SONOFAB!%*#!!!

[+geospyder]

Last month I snagged a few caches in Luxembourg while on vacation. Two had packages of condoms and one had a tampon. All these were new and unopened. Just seemed strange to find those items in a cache.

[+BillyBean]

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...dd-cf39131564c2 Edited June 6, 2005 by BillyBean

[+arcticcatmatt]

wow these are amazing. That last link doesn't work for me. Keem em coming!

[+Crazy Aaron]

A lot of unopened, still in plastic, hypodermic needles.

[+Gretch_Mess]

A opened but full can of sardines that "matured" in the heat . . . what a SMELL!

[+BlueDeuce]

A note that said "sign this log if your a butthead"...

Are you sure that wasn't the cache owner's original logbook?

[WH]

WH, just wondering

 

Is that your signature item? It is green.

Well, after that bowl of chili I had for luch perhaps it should be.

[+Anonymous']

joinsmith97 and I found spermicide in a cache once. Pretty gross.

[+Tidalflame]

A lot of unopened, still in plastic, hypodermic needles.

Now THAT is creepy. Some of the other ones were a bit bad, but needles? That's downright f----d up.

[+Corp Of Discovery]

A heaping, steaming pile of #2 (scroll down to Nov. 28, 2003). The idiots even signed the logbook. Good thing they left it seperate from the cache, that way I could sign it too.

[+arcticcatmatt]

what did the log book say? Thats horrible

[AZcachemeister]

Is this considered bad?

I've left a few of those!

 

Brown Canyon Cache

[+RoyalRed]

Found a cache in Delaware filled with crap. Another Geocacher was at the cache as I walked up and he announced to me that someone had filled it with feces but that he had dumped it all out. I could see that! Then he says that there wasn't too much on the log book. He tries to hand the log book to me so I can sign it. NO WAY DUDE...don't need a find that bad!

[+The Chaotic Order]

...Then he says that there wasn't too much on the log book.

OMG! That's too funny!

[+Tidalflame]

I've been considering bringing along a couple pairs of Latex gloves for caching... it's sounding like a better idea all the time!

[+Miragee]

I wish I had had a pair of gloves yesterday for a very cleverly hidden micro. Only problem, it is in a telephone pole and I think the pole had just been resprayed with creosote . . . Eweeeeuuu! Stinky!

[+Brian - Team A.I.]

I found 2 WWII-era ammo clips (no, not magazines) each containing 5 rounds of live ammo. The earliest date on any of the brass is 1943. I removed them from 2 caches due to safety concerns, but I couldn't bear to get rid of them due to their age. They're sitting about 2' to my left as I type.

[+Tidalflame]

That's definitely a safety issue, but on the other hand, it's pretty cool too.

[+Isonzo Karst]

fire crackers - in a cache in a state park with a short list of DON'Ts for cache goodies - basically anything flammable, alcohol, or batteries. So in one cache, firecrackers and in the other AAs.

[+Team Wildebeest]

An old style boxcutter. One of the ones with the exposed blades.

[+arcticcatmatt]

I am glad that this list isn't longer..

[+Deliveryguy428]

I found a lighter once and it turns out to be a TB that was written up in TC's so I left it in the cache.

[+briansnat]

I am glad that this list isn't longer..

Heck, with 172,000+ active caches out there, you're going to get a bozo now and then who puts something inappropriate in a cache. It seems that 90 percent of the time its an accidental fider and not a geocacher who is putting this stuff in the caches.

 

Considering the number of caches out there, the list here is pretty short and that's good.

[+treasure_hunter]

I would have to say the worst thing I've found in a cache would be LIVE AMMUNITION that would be just great for a small kid to get a hold of. I mean who the heck carries .223 shells in thier back pocket and gets to the cache and says " hmm I sure would like to have that TB, oh wait it got some .223 shells I can trade for it!"

[+Sevateem]

I went to one of my caches to get a T/B to take from NY to Mich. and found two dead fish that had been in there for over a week. Everything else that was any good including the T/B was gone. The idiot even signed the log book and left a phone #.

Lately around here we have been finding $1 store knifes that are on the no-no list. At least they are new.

[Lawcomic]

All compelling reasons why virtuals should not be frowned on as much. Just saying.

[+arcticcatmatt]

I went to one of my caches to get a T/B to take from NY to Mich. and found two dead fish that had been in there for over a week. Everything else that was any good including the T/B was gone. The idiot even signed the log book and left a phone #.

Lately around here we have been finding $1 store knifes that are on the no-no list. At least they are new.

wow, did you call the number? Who was it the land owner?

[RandLD]

Only bad thing we've found in a cache -- cigarettes. Easy cache, kid-friendly. Didn't think something like this should've been in there.

 

(Don't know that there's a specific provision against them, unless you consider them "drugs" ..., but still not a good idea especially in a cache like this!)

Edited June 9, 2005 by RandLD

[+Joypa]

I would have to say the worst thing I've found in a cache would be LIVE AMMUNITION that would be just great for a small kid to get a hold of. I mean who the heck carries .223 shells in thier back pocket and gets to the cache and says " hmm I sure would like to have that TB, oh wait it got some .223 shells I can trade for it!"

Yep, me too. A bullet in a cache near a covered bridge.

[+Joypa]

Do I know how to kill a thread, or what?

[+Sevateem]

Didn't call the #, thought it would be a made up one. The cache is near a state run boat launch.

[+Dragon Clan]

found a beer unopened that a muggle put in one of the oldfarts caches that has since been disabled. log said found your stupid cache and left a beer

 

dragon clan

[+Dragon Clan]

and no I didn't drink it!

[+Ed & Julie]

A friend found a lilipop of a questionable (adult) shape:

 

January 17 by XXXx&XXXXXXX (2421 found)

Found this one while caching around XXXXX with the XXXXXXXXX. We were very unhappy to find a piece of XXX (adult) candy, in the cache. We aren't prudes, but COME ON PEOPLE! What was someone thinking????? Kids go to these caches too!! Use your brain, this IS a family sport!! Thanks for the cache, it was a good hide. Sorry for the disgust, XXXX&XXXXXXX

[Double Agents]

Uh...Um... Look kids, it's a rocket ship! </death to smoochie>

[+GibsonCRG]

Worst thing we've found so far was a log page that had been muggled with horrible obscene messages to all geocachers. Hey, at least they didn't trash the cache. As we go paperless, I checked the recent logs, and found that prior finders had mentioned the naughty messages, but the owner hadn't been by to clean it up.

 

We weren't sure if it was proper etiquette, but since the page was all by itself we were able to remove it without removing anyone's legitimate logs - so we removed it, packed it out and destroyed it. Lots of kids go to this cache, and we didn't want them to find that kind of language.

 

Other than that, the worst thing has been poison ivy all around the cache.

[+arcticcatmatt]

found a beer unopened that a muggle put in one of the oldfarts caches that has since been disabled. log said found your stupid cache and left a beer

 

dragon clan

I have been to a few caches where I told my girfriend

 

"I hope the last finders left a cold 6 pack in this thing!!!! I am dieing!"

 

I have never heard of a cache that had a theme that wasn't approiate*

 

I imagine that there are some out there that say "This isn't a cache for your kids! Contents may not be kid friendly"

[+Colorado Cacher]

Went to one cache I DNF , and I did find a cache of "coors light" under some rocks.

[+wandererrob]

All compelling reasons why virtuals should not be frowned on as much. Just saying.

micros as well