Outraged

[renejennings]

Last Sunday, I led a group of girls in my daughter's brownie troop up Tiger Mountain in Issaquah, WA to do a geocache treasure hunt. Well, when the girls finally discovered the tupperware container of the public cache.. my God people can be so cruel and disgusting... someone had gone number 2 in the container. I would have thought it was an animal but they left a note with a link to the below location describing "geodumping"

 

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=geodumping

 

I tried to clean up the container as best I could. It was a terrible mess. The smell made me and my daughters gag.

 

I really hope this is not a new trend among young boys who think this is funny. Has this happened to anybody else?

[+Renegade Knight]

s*** happens. You are not the first person to find a cache that had been used as a handy receptical by a person with a scat fetish who thinks their crap worth preserving and showing off. Oddly enough you probably did see the best this person had to offer.

 

I'd of trashed out the container and left another one, then emailed the cache owner and let then know what you did and why. It doesn't happen often.

Edited September 30, 2006 by Renegade Knight

[+g-people]

Check out

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...4c-ebe8290f860a

 

Tukwila-Sleepy Hollow- In August- I found the same thing. Unfortunately, I will always hesitate when finding an ammo can now! I can't believe you actually cleaned it up! On the good side, just think of the positive spin you can put on the experience to teach the kids. Silver lining and all that

[+Sagefox]

I tried to clean up the container as best I could. It was a terrible mess. The smell made me and my daughters gag.

 

This just happened to one of my caches too. No need to clean it up though. Best just to put it inside two plastic CITO bags (Safeway shopping bags) and drop it in the trash. I didn't even want the logbook.

 

I really hope this is not a new trend among young boys who think this is funny.

 

It's not. This is a random act.

[2oldfarts (the rockhounders)]

Would you trade items from a cache container if you knew what had happened with that container?

 

EEEEWWw

 

Shirley~

[+brodiebunch]

Rene,

 

Are you one of those sock puppets we hear about?

[+The MadHatters]

Gives a whole new meaning to "Signing the log" The worst I saw had a used diaper in it.

[+LandRover]

I have a cache that someone peed in. I tossed the it contents and all, then moved the replacement container about 25' away just in case they decided to come back.

 

What cache was it that you found geodumped on Tiger? We were up on Tiger yesterday and were glad we didn't run across it. Although we did run across a cache that had been muggled, all of the contents were gone but they left the ammo box. Go figure.

[MarcusArelius]

I have come across three ammo boxes that a group of adolesent boys (just a guess) have used for #1. That's bad enough I would never want to find a #2 box. That's really disgusting but I guess it's still better than them doing something really dangerous.

[+Trucker Lee]

It is a sad commentary on the maturity level of individuals that this happens.

 

If someone knows of who does this, many locals have laws against leaving waste matter of that type open in the environment due to the possibility of disease. Contact local health officials.

[+Miragee]

"Margarine Meadows" cache . . .

[+KirklandExplorers]

#1 happened to our cache twice in a week so we have it disabled for the time being. I will reactivate it once the weather turns colder...

[+Blue Power Ranger]

Maybe they just misunderstood the term "logging a find".

[+MissJenn]

Rene,

Are you one of those sock puppets we hear about?

[+Cav Scout]

Why would you think a young boy would do this? I may of been a old woman.

 

If you cleaned up the mess why not log in the cache as a find?

Edited October 6, 2006 by Cav Scout

[+GrnXnham]

Why would you think a young boy would do this? I may of been a old woman.

 

Yeah, I can just picture my 92 year old grandmother doing this.

[+PhantomTech]

I thought when one of my caches was stuffed with raw hamburger was bad. After reading this I'm glad it was only raw hamburger! They were also nice to leave a business card that said 'Cache Bandits'. Hopefully this kind of stuff doesn't happen too often.

[John E Cache]

I really hope this is not a new trend among young boys who think this is funny. Has this happened to anybody else?

Portland legend says it happened in to a guy in PDX once upon a time. His response was to make a members only cache. To really thumb his nose at the offenders, he called it Port-A-Potty. It went unfound for year and a half until teams were formed to find it.

[+NorthWes]

Yup - just happened to me this weekend at my Connors Bog II cache... the vandals made a hash of the contents, trashing everything, then creating a #2 biohazard in the 50cal ammocan. From the remarks on the trash, it appears to be the work of juvenile males inordinately fascinated with human reproductive organs. The little 'whackos' were running the risk of being discovered in the act - this is a very popular dog park, too.

The really bad part is they appear to have disappeared a trackable from the cache contents.

 

Serious note - with hepatitis (transferred through contact w/human fecal matter - and present in one out of two persons from some Alaskan rural communities) a significant health hazard around vagrant camps in Anchorage, I treated this container and the trash as biohazard materials & it is going to a disposal point for such stuff today. We counsel local cachers not to place near known vagrant camps (more than 300 persons living in the woods in one 9-square mile central part of Anchorage alone) due to health hazards such as this. With that size ammocan selling for $3 at the local surplus sales point it just isn't worth it to try and clean up the old one...