My first cache i found

[Cinder2007]

What am i supposed to do with it?

[+Team_CSG]

What kind of address? Does it have a travel bug tag attached to it? If it has a tag, you will need to log it out. Recently I found a cache with a travel bug that was a key. The key was used to open a cache in the area.

 

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[Cinder2007]

What kind of address? Does it have a travel bug tag attached to it? If it has a tag, you will need to log it out. Recently I found a cache with a travel bug that was a key. The key was used to open a cache in the area.

 

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Just a regular address. Like 1234 21st street. No tag though

[+admo1972]

Hmm. Did you read the logs on the cache page to see who may of left it and what it may be for? Maybe someone gave you a house!

[+Knight2000]

That is extremely different. Dont expect to find that all the time.

[+BlueDeuce]

What kind of address? Does it have a travel bug tag attached to it? If it has a tag, you will need to log it out. Recently I found a cache with a travel bug that was a key. The key was used to open a cache in the area.

 

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Just a regular address. Like 1234 21st street. No tag though

 

How close are you to the address? If it's a distant location maybe you could just move it to a cache closer to that location.

[+LeonW]

The owner of the house may have misplaced his key and left it in the cache by mistake. He/she is looking all over the place and in the car for the misplaced key. My logical deduction of the "Case of the Missing Key" - elementary my dear Watson.

 

If the address is nearby leave a note in the post box to the house that they could claim the key at the Police station. Leave the key at the police station till it is sorted out.

Edited June 29, 2007 by LeonW

[+BWidget]

I hope he traded up for that house

 

Hmm. Did you read the logs on the cache page to see who may of left it and what it may be for? Maybe someone gave you a house!

[+Thrak]

I'd say it's simply a lost key. Drop it into a public mailbox and it should be delivered to the address that is on it.

[+lacazg]

You should get a travel bug tag and make it into a travel bug and make its mission to travel back to that address.

[Cinder2007]

Well the house is pretty close. I might drop by tomorrow. I doubt that its lost though.

[+simpjkee]

This is a special kind of geocache where you get a key and go to the address and rob the place blind and then post about what you got on the website.

[+DonB]

What am i supposed to do with it?

Maybe it's a lady of the night advertising.

[+Trucker Lee]

What am i supposed to do with it?

Maybe it's a lady of the night advertising.

 

Ever since they discontinued doorstep milk delivery, the housewives have felt abandoned. Take protection!

[+Harry Dolphin]

Ever since they discontinued doorstep milk delivery, the housewives have felt abandoned. Take protection!

 

Um... It's been forty or fifty years since we've had home milk delivery. Large family. Twelve quarts every other day.

 

OP, I vote for letting the police handle it.

[ELMNAP in CT]

OMG too funny. I am laughing so hard.

 

When you go to your new house (hopefully better) and vist the new house wife waiting. Hopefully you are not robbed blind!!!!

[+wildchld97]

The owner of the house may have misplaced his key and left it in the cache by mistake. He/she is looking all over the place and in the car for the misplaced key. My logical deduction of the "Case of the Missing Key" - elementary my dear Watson.

 

If the address is nearby leave a note in the post box to the house that they could claim the key at the Police station. Leave the key at the police station till it is sorted out.

 

Don't try that "do gooder" stuff in the other half of my neighborhood. The police would be saying "Hey cool! We'll "check out" the house tonight and see if there's anything that we can steal for the "good of the community." They've had a LOT of new equipment lately and no explaination on how they afforded such luxuries. Take the house key to the address, or do a reverse look up of the address to get the phone number. Ask the owner for an explaination. If it's meant to travel somwhere...they'll let you know. If not, you'll have a very happy person who is glad to have his keys back.

 

(Ok..I did accidentally leave my GPS in the cache one time because I was in a hurry, but at least I remembered and went back and got it. I'll bet that's what happened with these keys.}

[+Knight2000]

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Why do we need to know that? Is that like subliminal advertising? Cant you put it in your signature?

[+fishingdude720]

it is a signature. look at all of their posts.

[+LeonW]

Just the type of swag I would like to find in a cache - a GPS! Took GPS - left nothing, did not sign log.

 

About the police, wow, I thought the LEO in America were above any suspicion - but if they were - there would be no crime, now would there?

[+Bad_CRC]

we found a keychain with a ton of keys on it while caching. It had one of those electronic keys on it that cost like 70 bucks to replace.

 

no names or addresses though.

 

It looked like it had been in the woods for a year or so.

 

We logged that it was found, and left it in the woods.

 

Later, we were back at that site, and the keys were still there. I noticed that they had a little "superamerica" gas card attached. I took it to superamerica to see if they knew who the keys belonged to, and they just took them from me and said they'd find the person. No idea if they ever did.

[+Knight2000]

it is a signature. look at all of their posts.

No it is not. If it was their signature you can turn that off in your forum settings. This is manually entered into every post.

[+Rockin Roddy]

I'm having trouble believing it was lost and then had the address put on them, how would the finder know the address? Why would someone put their address on their house key? I'm not advertising my address on my keys!

[+KG1960]

It seems odd that someone would put their address on their keys. I wouldn't. Drive by the address to satisfy your curiosity, but I would be very wary of actually going up to the front door. I would just mail the keys to the address (without any return address).

[+lacazg]

Maybe the house is loaded with mass amounts of treasure and a wealthy person left the key for some one to find and get all the treasure.... but I doubt it.

[+simpjkee]

Well the house is pretty close. I might drop by tomorrow. I doubt that its lost though.

 

Needless to say, but if you do, let us know the outcome.

[ISUDogCachers]

Maybe the house is loaded with mass amounts of treasure and a wealthy person left the key for some one to find and get all the treasure.... but I doubt it.

 

Why does this remind me of the beer commercial that came out during Super Bowl '07... "but he's got an AXE!"

 

Maybe it's a serial killer who's using geocaching to lure people to his house...

 

Creepy!!!

[l3wis83]

Well the house is pretty close. I might drop by tomorrow. I doubt that its lost though.

so what was the out come??

[+DammitNanet]

it is a signature. look at all of their posts.

No it is not. If it was their signature you can turn that off in your forum settings. This is manually entered into every post.

 

Why do you even care?

[+AnotherPirate]

 

Maybe it's a lady of the night advertising.

 

I should start a new business.

[+Kealia]

My guess? It was a crappy item used as a trade.

[+BuffaloPennies]

Please, do tell. What was the outcome of your adventure to the key's address?????

[+wordnerd]

Wish Cinder would come back. You don't suppose it was a trick to lure a poor innocent geocacher to a strange house so they can steal her purse... his purse? I mean, I wasn't here when YOU all told her to go to that house. She might be dead now...... Wonder where she is? (or he)

[+GS Ryder]

Wish Cinder would come back. You don't suppose it was a trick to lure a poor innocent geocacher to a strange house so they can steal her purse... his purse? I mean, I wasn't here when YOU all told her to go to that house. She might be dead now......

 

Or tied up in somebody's cellar.

[donnellyfam]

OR....maybe someone really DIDN'T find a key....and just wanted to goof on everyone!

 

I have NO idea what to do if it's real.....but I say approach with care should you go to check the place out. It could be a home, a business, anything....could be the key doesn't work for anything....they're just using it as a source of advertising.

 

Who knows......but, if it is real, I'd love to hear the outcome!

[l3wis83]

cinder2007 prob went to the house........never seen since.................