+LeoCaptKirk Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 During a recent find, my geopartner thought it would be funny to leave a plastic tarantula guarding the cache. This doesn't sound too funny to me. In fact, I have been feeling terrible about it. Should I drive back and retrieve it---one team has already found it and thought it was funny, so they left it for the next team---or is this kind of joke done fairly regularly? I ask because we have already found 2 plastic snakes, and this tarantula was found in another cache, though just not "poised to pounce". Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 Sounds harmless enough. You could encounter a real spider after all. A fake one shouldn't be any worse. Quote Link to comment
Twister65 Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 During a recent find, my geopartner thought it would be funny to leave a plastic tarantula guarding the cache. This doesn't sound too funny to me. In fact, I have been feeling terrible about it. Should I drive back and retrieve it---one team has already found it and thought it was funny, so they left it for the next team---or is this kind of joke done fairly regularly? I ask because we have already found 2 plastic snakes, and this tarantula was found in another cache, though just not "poised to pounce". The Ridiculous Green Helm has a rat guardian. I don't see it being a big deal. Scott Quote Link to comment
+WizCreations Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 "Monitoring" MTRP by Chuy has the micro container inside of a plastic lizard. It scared me at first, and then I realized it was a fake lizard and not a snake. Quote Link to comment
+Thrak Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 I found a lampost micro that, when I started to lift the lampost skirt, the legs of an enormous spider came out and started wiggling madly at me. The cache was inside the giant spider but let me tell you, when those legs come out and wiggle at you it really gets your attention fast! I thought it was great. I've also done one where you end up looking under the edge of a bridge and about 6 inches in front of your face is a rattlesnake. The cache is inside the snake. I loved it. Quote Link to comment
+copper_toad Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 I have found two with the big rubber tarantulas, one was hiding the micro container, the other tied on with fishing line to a regular sized cache. I would think a small plastic one would give me a start if I was pulling out a cache and something small and black came trailing after it! Quote Link to comment
+Ballooner Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 (edited) I found a micro in a pile of logs where the joke was that the micro was in a rubber rat. However, there was another surprize waiting for us. See the log and pics here. I have a cache hidden down in some old lava rocks. I put a rubber snake under the ammo box as a joke. The snake disappeared and no one said anything about it in the logs???? Oh well. Leave the spider. Some of us need to get our hearts racing once in a while. Edited January 31, 2006 by Ballooner Quote Link to comment
+rnlorna Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 There's a cache hider in our area named Dr. Dastardly who hides caches in unusual things. We found one this weekend in a fake rubber realistic looking hand in an old stump. Good thing we found that one during the day. Also, he hides them in rats, spiders, etc. All of his are called _____phobia. That way if you look up the beginnning of the word you'll know what kind of creature you are looking for. There is one near us named Zemmiphobia. I had no idea it was fear of mole rats. Too bad it got washed away by recent flooding and we didn't get a chance to find it. We always take a stick when looking for his caches, to make sure what's real and what's not. They are clever, and we learn a thing or two as well. Have fun cacheing! Quote Link to comment
+nfa Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 I once reached into a cache to grab a big furry spider for my son, and the thing jumped up and out of the cache...it scared the **** (insert your favorite 4-letter expletive back there) out of me. jamie Quote Link to comment
+Team Red Oak Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 There is a cache around here that is in an animal skull lodged back in a hole in a tree. We've also found a multi where the first stage is a rubber snake with the coords written on the underside and one more that was some type of rubber animal with the coords written in it. All by the same hider, this person also has a snake in a can at one stage of a multi. Put the spider out with your cache. Quote Link to comment
+fratermus Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 During a recent find, my geopartner thought it would be funny to leave a plastic tarantula guarding the cache. This doesn't sound too funny to me. In fact, I have been feeling terrible about it. There is one in Carrollton Tx that has a plastic tarantual glued to the container. Funny, if a bit heart-thumping at the moment... Quote Link to comment
Lowsky Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 (edited) There is a cache around here that is in an animal skull lodged back in a hole in a tree. Put the spider out with your cache. I found that one too. almost had to go home and change shorts I am starting to use plastic frogs al-la "Signal" Edited February 1, 2006 by Lowsky Quote Link to comment
+Colorado Cacher Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 RFLMBO there is a cache here that has them all over it. Quote Link to comment
johndmann Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 lol i tell you what, just hanging out in these forums gives me some great ideas! Quote Link to comment
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