+LoneHowler Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 (edited) everyone complains about the mc toys and cheep items found in caches, but what is the worst you have ever found? I myself had to clean out one of my caches which was full of pizza and Chinese food fliers, not to mention religious pamphlets, I get that kind of junk delivered to me weekly in my mailbox, I don't want to find it in a box that I spent time hiding/finding. so whats your worst geojunk? Edited December 18, 2006 by LoneHowler Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 (edited) Some things that come to mind: A pair of filthy work gloves with holes in the fingers. A dirty diaper cover. Candy wrappers with melted chocolate residue on them (OK, I know if you collect 20 and send them in you can win a new Jeep Cherokee, or whatever, but geez, at least clean the wrapper first). Losing scratch off lottery tickets (already scratched off) Edited December 18, 2006 by briansnat Quote Link to comment
+ThePropers Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 I think leaves are the worst thing I've ever found in one of my caches. Of course, I have a 5 year old, so it's impossible to go caching without him picking up several sticks and rocks and leaves that mean oh-so-much to him. Of course, if he tried to leave any of that in a cache, I would somehow sneak it out while his back was turned. I know of at least one instance (not my cache) where someone did their...uhm....business in the cache. I would have to say that's the worst "trade item" ever. Unfortunately I can't remember what cache it was, only that it was one of CCCA's. She was not happy. Quote Link to comment
+adjensen Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 so whats your worst geojunk? Several years expired coupons for restaurants nowhere near the cache (as in, the nearest one was about 800 miles away.) But it wasn't my cache, so I left 'em in there and logged online that the owner might want to "take out the trash." Not disgusting, but definitely garbage. Quote Link to comment
+jongoff76 Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 LCASS-271 and i recently found a 45 cal bullet in one. we removed it. Quote Link to comment
+DudleyGrunt Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 From reading above, I've been pretty lucky. I think a pack of gum was probably my "worst". Only because I can't imaging chewing it after it's been sitting in a cache for who knows how long. Also since there shouldn't be any food like items left in caches. I've also a log book that wasn't just damp, but actually moldy. Unless something has slipped my mind, that's about as bad as it has gotten. Quote Link to comment
surferacf1 Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Melted Chalk Quote Link to comment
k_statealan Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Tampon (unused thankfully) Last week I pulled a parking pass for a year old event, a ticket for a two year old concert and a parking pass for a university 100 miles away and 5 semesters ago. Had a friend that had to clean a turd out of one in April and it hasn't been found since. Only about 25 miles from a major metro area. Guess people don't want to risk finding it again. Quote Link to comment
+Kabuthunk Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 An empty box of matches. They even logged putting it there in the logbook... something about it being really old and possibly useful for collector or some such. Right, some people collect rocks too, but maybe they left those in the next cache Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 A broken garage door opener, put there by the owner and part of the original contents list on the cache page. Quote Link to comment
Backup Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Fishing lure with bare treble hooks. Yes, it found me before I saw it. Quote Link to comment
Mr.Yuck Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Tampon (unused thankfully) Ya know, I've found at leasst 2, but couldn't decide whether I wanted to post or not. Yes, unused and still "sealed". Probably some geo-pranksters. Quote Link to comment
funkoptimus Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Someone put a book of matches and two cigaretes in it. Must have left it for the kiddies. Quote Link to comment
+j_czerwin Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 (edited) 1. Tons of used condoms in a remote area. -- The cache was on the ground near them. 2. In the city where homeless have makeshift homes and you find you are in thier living room when looking in a bush. 3. There are more, but the worst for me was where someone used it as a restroom a while back. There was no smell because the item hardened up in a shell. It was just about right on the cache and the right size and I reached around a transformer box to feel in the leaves and grabbed the hard tube shape -- thinking it was one of those cammo jobs with dirt glued all over it. It broke open in my hand like a mustard eclair and the smell let me know instantly what was happening!! I did a worse reaction than any "spider dance" we have all done and hopped around freaking out -- seeing a mud puddle and doing my best to wash it off!!! I couldn't even look at my hand for the rest of the day..... made that next sandwich so enjoyable... Now I carry disinfectants, baby wipes, jug of water, and papertowels everywhere. (I just read this area again and appologize for getting the subject wrong! -- it's supposed to be IN the cache -- oops!) Edited December 19, 2006 by j_czerwin Quote Link to comment
dsandbro Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 The worst I encountered was a small jar filled with a gray powder and a note attached. The note said it was the cremated remains of their pet dog. I didn't trade anything for it. Quote Link to comment
+cimawr Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 An empty box of matches. They even logged putting it there in the logbook... something about it being really old and possibly useful for collector or some such. There's a cache in my area where you're SUPPOSED to trade interesting books of matches. It was one of the first caches I looked for, and I took two cool empty matchboxes - small ones from European hotels that my grandmother stayed in in the 50's - along to trade. However, I ended up not leaving them because the cache container is cheapo disposable Gladware, and of course everything inside was sodden and/or moldy. :-P It was my first experience of the cheapo non-maintained cache container.... needless to say, it wasn't my last. Quote Link to comment
+ePeterso2 Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 Wow. The cremated dog remains wins. I did find a pair of women's underwear in a nearby cache ... apparently unused, fortunately. I'm willing to bet that the feminine hygiene products were left in caches by women who have been in situations where they really needed one, didn't have one handy, and were miles away from the nearest source. Quote Link to comment
+Glenn Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 <snip> 2. In the city where homeless have makeshift homes and you find you are in thier living room when looking in a bush. <snip> I'd rather find myself in their living room than in their restroom. Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 worst - unidentifiable rusty things with sharp edges and a soggy lumpy mess I assumed to be the log. Also - a few rocks and twigs and pine needles (all of which were in abundance around the cache). Big 2 gallon container with a 3"x5" log card. I added some dried grass (and a few matchbox cars). Quote Link to comment
+Corp Of Discovery Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 Human excrement. Soft, mushy and smelly. Do I win? Quote Link to comment
Zoptrop Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 Plastic horse with one leg missing. Quote Link to comment
+fox-and-the-hound Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Human excrement. Soft, mushy and smelly. Do I win? Clearly hard to beat, but we recently found a pair of dirty surgical gloves (with holes in them) and half a marijuana joint Quote Link to comment
+Jeeperman Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 Human excrement. Soft, mushy and smelly. Do I win? Clearly hard to beat, but we recently found a pair of dirty surgical gloves (with holes in them) and half a marijuana joint And not a match in sight!!!! Quote Link to comment
fivedime Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 I live in a "nice" suburban area and there are two caches within 2 miles of my house, one of which had a used condom right near it and another which has (presumably used) syringes lying on the ground under it. Need a hazmat suit and kevlar gloves to CITO that stuff out. Quote Link to comment
+JennM Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 I'm willing to bet that the feminine hygiene products were left in caches by women who have been in situations where they really needed one, didn't have one handy, and were miles away from the nearest source. I think that type of thing would have been left with good intentions - I've never found or left something like that but I must say it would likely be a welcome relief if I was "stranded".... I've been lucky - all the caches I've found have had decent stuff in them - no yucky surprises. One cache in FL was a bit mouldy and there was some really useless crap in it, but it was a TB hotel, so there was good stuff too - I and others left a note in the log for the cache owner to tend it and "CITO" it. I can't believe people would defecate in a cache - what's the point of that? There are some sick puppies out there.... One of the best caches I've found was in a hole in a tree in the middle of an urban forest - ammo box full of CDs and even a few casette tapes to trade - all were in good shape, and the box was well sealed so the contents stayed clean and dry. I didn't have anything to trade, so I did not take anything, but it was an impressive cache. Jenn Quote Link to comment
+Tone Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 I recently found a used lip gloss.... Emma, 6 yrs, was crying her heart out because both her mother and I said she could not have it... Quote Link to comment
AZcachemeister Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 A moldy religious tract. No, wait! It was a hacked-up golf ball that had been lying in the bushes somewhere for five years before someone put it in the cache. Quote Link to comment
nonaeroterraqueous Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 Let's see... A large TB hotel half-filled with really bad golf balls Human feces on a micro, probably unintentional Movie ticket stubs a stick of gum a dead smashed lizard in a sealed bag Quote Link to comment
+JennM Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 I found a TB hotel in FL that had a lot of junk in it. I signed the log and swapped travel bugs, I didn't rummage through the stuff but most of it was damp and mouldy and didn't look too appealing. In fact, prior logs had mentioned that the cache owner should CITO his cache - there was definitely some stuff that should have gone. Jenn Quote Link to comment
Digital_Cowboy Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Human excrement. Soft, mushy and smelly. Do I win? Clearly hard to beat, but we recently found a pair of dirty surgical gloves (with holes in them) and half a marijuana joint Hey, don't "bogart" that j. Seriously I hope ya disposed of it properly. Uh, IF one were to find another one or something of a similar nature how would they turn it in to the cops without getting busted themselves??? Digital_Cowboy Quote Link to comment
+emurock Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 so whats your worst geojunk? Poo. Quote Link to comment
+Frank and Peggy Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 1) Armed mouse trap 2) Used stick deodorant Quote Link to comment
muttz Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 I was wondering who would most likely be placing the things like the armed mousetrap, used deodorant and lipgloss, and the joint? Do you think it was people who are cachers, or people who happen upon a cache, figure out what it is, but don't plunder it? The fishing lure and the mousetrap are a little scary. Especially if anyone allows their children to be the first to open and rummage through a cache. Quote Link to comment
+skisidedown Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 I was wondering who would most likely be placing the things like the armed mousetrap, used deodorant and lipgloss, and the joint? Do you think it was people who are cachers, or people who happen upon a cache, figure out what it is, but don't plunder it? The fishing lure and the mousetrap are a little scary. Especially if anyone allows their children to be the first to open and rummage through a cache. I routinely leave fishing lures - BUT, they are still in the plastic and cardboard buble pack. I've been on the business end of a treble hook too many times in my tackle box while looking at it to leave one unprotected in a cache! Worst things I have found so far have been the unidentifiable mouldy paper remains that are left in the bottom of plastic buckets with snap on lids. Skisidedown. Quote Link to comment
+Scare Force One Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 We found a decomposing object that somewhat resembeled a stake... bring on the A1-YYUUMM Quote Link to comment
+Col. Bucky Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 Human excrement. Soft, mushy and smelly. Do I win? Clearly hard to beat, but we recently found a pair of dirty surgical gloves (with holes in them) and half a marijuana joint Hey, don't "bogart" that j. Seriously I hope ya disposed of it properly. Uh, IF one were to find another one or something of a similar nature how would they turn it in to the cops without getting busted themselves??? Digital_Cowboy You don't. Guilty until proven innocent. Better to just grind it under foot in the dirt than to turn it in innocently and then having to hire a lawyer to explain your way out. Quote Link to comment
Digital_Cowboy Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 Hey, don't "bogart" that j. Seriously I hope ya disposed of it properly. Uh, IF one were to find another one or something of a similar nature how would they turn it in to the cops without getting busted themselves??? Digital_Cowboy You don't. Guilty until proven innocent. Better to just grind it under foot in the dirt than to turn it in innocently and then having to hire a lawyer to explain your way out. Sadly, that is pretty much what I had thought. Myself and everyone I was stationed with over in S. Korea had wished that a SSG who had found one in the transit's barracks had done that. Instead he turned it in and we all got "the plastic cup detail" for our troubles. Digital_Cowboy Quote Link to comment
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