+sTeamTraen Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Reaching round some metal bars feeling for a magnetic micro, the outside of my hand brushed against the film canister. It detached itself from the bar, fell, and disappeared into the - very securely locked - abandoned building. Yep, this one "Needs Maintenance". And all because of little me. Still, at least I 'fessed up to the owner. Looks like I'll have one less coin to sell (when they arrive). Anyone else accidentally destroyed a cache? Quote Link to comment
+johninvandergrift Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Reaching round some metal bars feeling for a magnetic micro, the outside of my hand brushed against the film canister. It detached itself from the bar, fell, and disappeared into the - very securely locked - abandoned building. Yep, this one "Needs Maintenance". And all because of little me. Still, at least I 'fessed up to the owner. Looks like I'll have one less coin to sell (when they arrive). Anyone else accidentally destroyed a cache? Hider should have known that could happen. Not your fault. Still haven't destroyed one myself yet, but, I'm still pretty knew. Maybe someday. Quote Link to comment
+Woodlit Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Did the right thing by telling the owner. If you didn't say anything, half a dozen other cachers would have went for it before it was noticed as missing. I have not destroyed any caches, but I have ripped and crumbled log books. It can be very difficult rolling up that "log" and replacing it back into that bison tube or nano container. But I have always said something to the owner. And thats just part of being a cache owner. Quote Link to comment
+tozainamboku Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 This has happened to me so many times I should start a bookmark list of caches I have accidently lost or damaged. Quote Link to comment
Trinity's Crew Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Yes, I have destroyed a cache. Well, my friend did it actually. We were snow caching and my friend stepped on the cache and cracked the container. While it was one of our easier finds, I felt terrible. We packed all of the contents in ziplock bags and I emailed the owner offering to replace the container on a subsequent trip. He graciously declined my offer, told me not to sweat it and replaced it himself. It's not quite as horrifying as completely losing the cache, but it still bothered me. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Recently I had a lid fall apart as I opened the cache. Luckily I had a Lock n Lock in my pack that was roughly the same size. I also recall a close call where I knocked a cache lose that was on a foot bridge and it landed on the rocks below, inches from a rushing river. Quote Link to comment
surferacf1 Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Never destroyed a cache, but wrecked the hiding spot once. It was in a rotted tree that was hanging over a hill, and after taking out the cahce I leaned a little too hard on the tree... Quote Link to comment
+DrAwKwArD Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Oh yes, a fairly new cache was destroyed when I went to replace the 20 pound rock that was covering the cache. It split the lock-and-lock lid right down the middle. The next hider replaced it with an ammo box. They lived in the area of the cache and came back the next day to replace it. I think all has been forgiven... Quote Link to comment
ParentsofSAM Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 We were FTF on a cache and it was up in a tree suspended in the air you had to untie the rope and lower the ammo can then hoist it back up. Well we got done signing it and were pulling the rope to get the ammo can up and then SNAP it breaks and the ammo can crashes down! We felt bad. We wrote the owner and offered to go out the next day with a new rope and fix it but he said he would take care of it. Another one was a MKB and as we opened it the lid popped off! We were headed to an event and we knew the owner would be there so we told him what happened. Quote Link to comment
+Kit Fox Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 "Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody is looking." I broke somone else's container once. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LU...93-2de024486000 I visited the cache at 0605 hrs, to bag the Green Jeep. Unfortunately, I get the dubious distinction of being the first person to "break the fish." As I was recovering the "fish," he came off the hook and dove head first, back into his pond. The fish managed to shatter his skull, and I was able to carefully retrieve him. He is is no shape to be recovered again, until he gets surgery. Marty, I have your "fish" in my car, call me later, and i'll help you fix him, after I get off work. Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 I broke a cache once. It had a magnet attached to the container and I broke it off. We drove to the store to get superglue and Stunod fixed it for me. Quote Link to comment
+4leafclover Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 (edited) This has happened to me so many times I should start a bookmark list of caches I have accidently lost or damaged. you too? I constantly (well...more often than I would like to admit) end up managing to lose, destroy, or not quite "catch" a cache. (don't ask) I'm very glad I am not the only one. Edited January 15, 2007 by 4leafclover Quote Link to comment
Neos2 Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 My sister-in-law broke a key holder the first time we took her out caching. I didn't have another one with me, but we were parked by a drugstore, so we walked there, bought a new key holder, walked back to the cache and replaced the key holder. I thought about not telling the owner just to see if he said anything about finding a different key holder the next time he went out to do maintenence, but I decided that I really ought to 'fess up ahead of time. Quote Link to comment
+mattmill Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Too new to destroy a cache but did have my dog destroy a travel bug. Rubik's Cube with the co-ordinates to the final cache. I was home and loging the find and he, the 9 month old exuberant puppy, stole it off the desk and it was in pieces before I realized it was gone. Contacted the owner but yet to hear back on replacement. matt Quote Link to comment
+Dave_W6DPS Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Yeah, last Saturday. It was a decon container and the ambient temp was about 30°F. When I latched it the latch broke right off... Does this mean seven years bad luck? Or just more bad karma? Dave_W6DPS Quote Link to comment
+cache_test_dummies Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Anyone else accidentally destroyed a cache? Not me personally. But I know a guy that dropped a cache from a pier into the ocean, and it sank. He fessed up. When I was a kid, and I dropped a Magic 8 Ball onto the linoleum floor in the toy department at Woolworths. There was an awful crunching sound followed by a huge, black, inky mess. Cost me a weeks allowance. I'm certain that that painful experience taught be to be careful around geocaches. Quote Link to comment
+Swiss Jim Hawkins Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Anyone else accidentally destroyed a cache? Pretty much the same thing happend to me at this nice cache at a lock of Rhine-Main-Donau Channel. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LU...c5-99bc48b15ef5 I was lucky to have some similar type of micros with me in my car so I could replace it in a minute Quote Link to comment
+Harry Dolphin Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Just one so far. A magnetic keyholder on a foot bridge over the Passaic River in Paterson, NJ. I was feeling for it, felt something, and heard a splash. Oops. I logged what had happened, and e-mailed the owner. Quote Link to comment
+Mr. Fantastic Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Out caching with Spyderuser in freezing temperatures around Thanksgiving 2004, we managed to accidentally destroy a cache. I very nearly could not hold the camera still enough to capture images of him trying to replace the cache hiding mechanism. The Log Quote Link to comment
+Super_Nate Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Yeah...I broke the container for a cache that I was FTF on near Cleveland, Tennessee. This happened back when I was a little lad in September 2004! Here is the entertaining log that I wrote up the next day. Quote Link to comment
+TexasGringo Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 I broke one and replaced it.... See my entry on 12/26/2006 "Guru4Hire" http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...87-dc3ffed2e3b2 Quote Link to comment
+sarhound Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 I managed to drop one down into the hollow of a tree when I was replacing it; I tried fishing it out with everything that I had in the car, then Deputyhound came out to assist, with his longer reach. No dice. I could see the little critter wedged down in the bottom of the tree, but it wasn't coming out. Notified the cache owner, and he couldn't extricate it, either. The poor cache was archived. I felt really bad about that. Quote Link to comment
nonaeroterraqueous Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 ...my hand brushed against the film canister. It detached itself from the bar, fell, and disappeared into the - very securely locked - abandoned building. You're in luck! Those containers are easily replaced, and they almost never have swag or travel bugs. That would have been much worse, losing a TB. Never destroyed a cache, but wrecked the hiding spot once. It was in a rotted tree that was hanging over a hill, and after taking out the cahce I leaned a little too hard on the tree... That tree just needed to go. Who knows? You may have saved the life of some future cacher. We were FTF on a cache and it was up in a tree suspended in the air you had to untie the rope and lower the ammo can then hoist it back up. Well we got done signing it and were pulling the rope to get the ammo can up and then SNAP it breaks and the ammo can crashes down! That's what first finders are good for. Find the bugs so that they can be fixed for everyone else. If the string was so weak that it broke on the first find, then that's just a design error. At least it didn't fall on anyone. An ammo can? Ouch! Quote Link to comment
+Isonzo Karst Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 We've demolished number of hide-a-keys. I won't hardly hunt them anymore. The magnets come off, the lids lose the lip and fall away, the metal ones get too rusty to function and the plastic ones get stiff crumbly and full of sand. I refuse to acknowledge that their deaths have anything to do with my hammer technique for opening them. ( Quote Link to comment
+DocDiTTo Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 I was looking for one of those magnetic nano things about half the size of a thimble. I swept along the top of a metal bar with my hand and I felt it go flying -- right into a patch of 6 inch deep snow covered ivy. Yeah... it was gone. I posted a note to the page telling of my clumsiness and the owner replaced it the next morning. Quote Link to comment
Difficult Run Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Wow! I'm not going caching with any of the above posters. LoL! Quote Link to comment
Mushtang Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 You're NOT supposed to detroy them after you find them? Oops. Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 (edited) Reaching round some metal bars feeling for a magnetic micro, the outside of my hand brushed against the film canister. It detached itself from the bar, fell, and disappeared into the - very securely locked - abandoned building. Yep, this one "Needs Maintenance". And all because of little me. Still, at least I 'fessed up to the owner. Looks like I'll have one less coin to sell (when they arrive). Anyone else accidentally destroyed a cache? Yes. I was standing by canal back, looking at dead animals, a couch cushion, a rotting stump and other debris and scratching my head. I read the clue. "Magnetic keyholder" cool Some of the concrete debris had rebar and there was a handy guard rail nearby. I found the wasps but no cache. Later I came back with my kids and had no better luck. Annoyed I decided it was a good time to move the rotten stump and grabbed it. It blew apart into pieces and the cache was revealed. Yup, a magnetic keyholder all right. Hmmm...I've also crushed a film canister with the rock it was hidden under. Edited January 16, 2007 by Renegade Knight Quote Link to comment
+nekom Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Thankfully never had that happen to me, but I'd fess up if I did. If able, I'd make repairs or replacements as well. And I'd easily forgive anyone if they broke one of mine and told me. People make mistakes, not worth getting in a tizzy over. Quote Link to comment
+Glock22 Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Some ofthose sound like bad ideas for hiding, but it happens I grabbed a log one time to move it and it was the cache a pringle size container covered with bark and foam...it came apart and I notified the owner. All turned out O.K. Greg Quote Link to comment
+CYBret Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 I broke an already broken cache a few weeks ago. It was a vial glued to the bottom of a spike. Apparently the glass vial had already been broken by a previous cacher and all I could see was the lid, which I attempted to unscrew from the spike. No good. I seem to remember a story a few years ago on the forums where someone dropped a cache down into an area they couldn't retrieve it. They went to a Radio Shack and bought a remote control car and tried sending it after the cache. Any other old timers remember that story? Bret Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Lets see - where to start..... Broke a glass mason jar on one of my first 30 or so caches. Broke the lid on a tupperware container in really cold weather. Dropped one off of an old bridge into the river below. Broke a rusty hinge clear off an ammo box. Lost logsheet into the wind on 2 different log only micros. I have learned to carry a variety of "tools" and misc with me to make things right. Plus sorrowful emails to the owners. Quote Link to comment
+9Key Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 I managed to drop one down into the hollow of a tree when I was replacing it; I tried fishing it out with everything that I had in the car, then Deputyhound came out to assist, with his longer reach. No dice. I could see the little critter wedged down in the bottom of the tree, but it wasn't coming out. Notified the cache owner, and he couldn't extricate it, either. The poor cache was archived. I felt really bad about that. Ha! That was my cache! A while back a new cache appeared in that same cemetery so I checked the old hiding spot and my container was gone. I guess someone figured out how to remove the container. Quote Link to comment
+9Key Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 I dropped a Bison tube cache down into a hollow metal fence post one time. Felt really bad about it and emailed the owner but they were cool about it. Stuff happens! Quote Link to comment
+CYBret Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 I dropped a Bison tube cache down into a hollow metal fence post one time. Felt really bad about it and emailed the owner but they were cool about it. Stuff happens! Heh...I did that once too, but it was a pill bottle. The kicker was that a newbie had just replaced the cache for the owner the day before! I still don't know what I was thinking trying to balance it on the side of the pipe! UGH I managed to save the logsheet and replaced the cache with a film canister CITO kit I had in the truck. Ugh...I dreaded writing that log! Bret Quote Link to comment
+Bud Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Dropped a new cache from about 6' up, in to a hollow tree which looked like it had a pretty secure bottom, but the cache kept on falling down to the base. So somewhere out there in South Texas (I don't even remember which park...Pedernales Falls? Inks Lake?) is a brand new cache that I never got to activate. Quote Link to comment
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