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Stolen Camo - MIA Hides Pop Up Somewhere Else?


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Haven't had this happen that I am aware of, but knowing there are all types of people involved in geocaching, I was wondering if anyone has worked hard on a piece of camo only to have it go missing, then all of a sudden a new hide pops up somewhere else strangely identical to your camo? I just figured that maybe if we post some pictures of the MIA hides/camo that maybe they can be identified if they show up somewhere else. I "had" a hide here named Boney James Jams GC14B4P (archived) and it was a large cow leg bone that was cored our for a waterproof match container to fit inside. I did some molding with Quickcrete around the lid of the match container and matched it to the end of the bone by putting a plastic shopping bag between the lid and the base, screwing the lid on with the bag trapped, and then molding around it and not removing the bag until it hardened. Worked out good. But the cache went missing and not exactly something I could see some critter running off with.

 

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Don't mind giving the technique away and I am sure I'm not the only one to hide something in a bone, but would be really curious to see if anyone has had someone heist thier hard work and claim it as their own.

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... I "had" a hide here named Boney James Jams GC14B4P (archived) and it was a large cow leg bone that was cored our for a waterproof match container to fit inside. ... But the cache went missing and not exactly something I could see some critter running off with.
That is exactly the kind of thing that I would imagine that a dog would wander off with.
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But the cache went missing and not exactly something I could see some critter running off with.

 

You can't imagine an animal dragging off a bone? :(

 

I haven't heard of thieves swiping a cache to then re-hide later. And I think you'd have a tough time proving it wasn't a similar idea instead of the direct cache.

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Old, dried out bones are fairly safe from most critters other than rodents, who might gnaw them for the minerals. My guess would be muggles, not cachers. I know I've carried bones out of the woods many times. Your bone camo is so lifelike, (deathlike?), that I could conceive some muggle not even noticing the hidden chamber. Imagine the muggle's surprise when they finally found the cache! :(

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Old, dried out bones are fairly safe from most critters other than rodents, who might gnaw them for the minerals. My guess would be muggles, not cachers. I know I've carried bones out of the woods many times. Your bone camo is so lifelike, (deathlike?), that I could conceive some muggle not even noticing the hidden chamber. Imagine the muggle's surprise when they finally found the cache! :P

 

Some cachers do the same thing. They look for a cache unsuccessfully, figure its a DNF, and pick up something "interesting" in the area. Later, they notice a logbook .... :D

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Old, dried out bones are fairly safe from most critters other than rodents, who might gnaw them for the minerals. My guess would be muggles, not cachers. I know I've carried bones out of the woods many times. Your bone camo is so lifelike, (deathlike?), that I could conceive some muggle not even noticing the hidden chamber. Imagine the muggle's surprise when they finally found the cache! :D

 

Some cachers do the same thing. They look for a cache unsuccessfully, figure its a DNF, and pick up something "interesting" in the area. Later, they notice a logbook .... :P

 

This happened to a local cachers hide. The cache was an old fire extinguisher hidden in the bushes. You had to unscrew the top to access the cache log.

 

The mea culpa log was priceless:

 

My husband and I are the complete idiots that took off with this one...as in YES, we actually took the cache container and put it in our car! We couldn't find the cache when we went looking for it on April 9th, but hubby took the container out of the desert thinking it would make a cool cache container. It's been rolling around in the back of our car since then and we went to organize the back of our car and it had come open...and there was a little tiny log inside! We felt completely ridiculous! We will be running out there tomorrow and re-stashing the cache. We cannot apologize enough.

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Old, dried out bones are fairly safe from most critters other than rodents, who might gnaw them for the minerals. My guess would be muggles, not cachers. I know I've carried bones out of the woods many times. Your bone camo is so lifelike, (deathlike?), that I could conceive some muggle not even noticing the hidden chamber. Imagine the muggle's surprise when they finally found the cache! :ph34r:

 

Some cachers do the same thing. They look for a cache unsuccessfully, figure its a DNF, and pick up something "interesting" in the area. Later, they notice a logbook .... :unsure:

 

This happened to a local cachers hide. The cache was an old fire exstinquisher hidden in the bushes. You had to unscrew the top to access the cache log.

 

The mea culpa log was priceless:

 

My husband and I are the complete idiots that took off with this one...as in YES, we actually took the cache container and put it in our car! We couldn't find the cache when we went looking for it on April 9th, but hubby took the container out of the desert thinking it would make a cool cache container. It's been rolling around in the back of our car since then and we went to organize the back of our car and it had come open...and there was a little tiny log inside! We felt completely ridiculous! We will be running out there tomorrow and re-stashing the cache. We cannot apologize enough.

 

If you hid a cache like that the log is priceless.

 

The one we did was a straw. Yes a straw. My kids had found some spraypaint. Then they found the straw and asked if they could paint it for kicks. I said yes paint it, then throw it all away. They did. When they were done and just before it hit the trash we figured out it was the cache. Whoops.

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That is exactly the kind of thing that I would imagine that a dog would wander off with.
Naw.... these bones we snagged are massive sun bleached and older then dirt. Dogs like to chew bones to get to the scent of meat or to the marrow, these would be like chewing on a brick.
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Some cachers do the same thing. They look for a cache unsuccessfully, figure its a DNF, and pick up something "interesting" in the area. Later, they notice a logbook .... :unsure:
Sounds vaguely familiar. I have a multi-cache out in the wild and one of the stages is a soda can safe, a fake soda can that the top screws off and the coords to the next stage are inside. A group cached in the area and they looked around everywhere and couldn't find the stage. They gave up and started off to the next cache when one of them thought about the CITO snag they made and they checked and found the "trash" they grabbed was the cache. That is why the listing states to "CITO carefully". :blink:

 

Also, with the bone issue, we hike often in an 5,700 acre preserve that a lot of it is former open cattle land and there are skeletons scattered around occasionally and you can tell that the bones have been in place for decades. Have to say that no skulls were around these skeletons, don't know why that was. But nothing was hauling them away. I'm not saying that it couldn't be a critter, but with my dogs when a bone gets dried out and old they never wanted anything to do with it anymore. I think it was a unique hide with the Quikcrete end so if it showed up somewhere at least the word is out. And the biggest loss is that the whole hide was based on the camo job so when the camo vanished, the hide had to, too. No replacements in my geo-Jeepster for that one. And if someone took the bone for a keepsake (not a cacher) then they may never find the container as it was pretty secure in place. And if they did it would be a Kodak moment for sure :ph34r:

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Also, with the bone issue, we hike often in an 5,700 acre preserve that a lot of it is former open cattle land and there are skeletons scattered around occasionally and you can tell that the bones have been in place for decades. Have to say that no skulls were around these skeletons, don't know why that was. But nothing was hauling them away. I'm not saying that it couldn't be a critter, but with my dogs when a bone gets dried out and old they never wanted anything to do with it anymore. I think it was a unique hide with the Quikcrete end so if it showed up somewhere at least the word is out. And the biggest loss is that the whole hide was based on the camo job so when the camo vanished, the hide had to, too. No replacements in my geo-Jeepster for that one. And if someone took the bone for a keepsake (not a cacher) then they may never find the container as it was pretty secure in place. And if they did it would be a Kodak moment for sure :unsure:

 

People collect skulls to hang from there walls, or to place on shelves.

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I'm noticing a trend here... people hide cache containers disguised as (made from?) something that looks like trash, then are surprised/angry when someone picks it up and throws it away?

 

And no, I'm not talking about the 30-lb rock. But a STRAW?? Seriously??

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....Also, with the bone issue, we hike often in an 5,700 acre preserve that a lot of it is former open cattle land and there are skeletons scattered around occasionally and you can tell that the bones have been in place for decades. Have to say that no skulls were around these skeletons, don't know why that was. But nothing was hauling them away. I'm not saying that it couldn't be a critter, but with my dogs when a bone gets dried out and old they never wanted anything to do with it anymore. I think it was a unique hide with the Quikcrete end so if it showed up somewhere at least the word is out. And the biggest loss is that the whole hide was based on the camo job so when the camo vanished, the hide had to, too. No replacements in my geo-Jeepster for that one. And if someone took the bone for a keepsake (not a cacher) then they may never find the container as it was pretty secure in place. And if they did it would be a Kodak moment for sure :ph34r:

 

Well, in my opinion, this is could possibly be Groundspeak's fault, but don't be too hard on them. :blink:

 

If they had only included DNF's in a cacher's stats, a larger percentage of cachers would write them, and perhaps stuff like this could be figured out..

 

:ph34r: June 20 by G________ (933 found) DNF! Spent over an hour looking for this and had NO luck. :blink:

However, we seemed to have found a dinosaur bone! The end is solid like concrete, so we think it's possibly a few million years old! We are going to take it to a paleontologist in the morning and if it's nothing unique, then it will become the coolest geocache ever...We will return and look some more for this one, nice spot!

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