TexasLawDog Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Greetings to you guys and gals! I made this account to let you guys in on this great story. I'll begin by telling you that I work for a small town police department in Texas. Now some of our calls are pretty unusual and some funny kinda like this one: On 07/24 in the wee hours of the morning a call came in about two subjects that stuffed something in a tree, the reporting party didn't know if it was drugs or a love note, so an officer was dispatched to the location, after he did some looking around he found a patch of fake grass and a (What looked to be a cigar tube) stuffed in a hollowed out split. upon opening the tube he found what looked to be a bookmark/log sheet. He brought the log sheet back to the P.D. to take a closer look at it, well after taking a quick glance at it I typed in the URL and here I am typing this! After checking out what all of this is I had the officer take the log sheet back to the location and place a business card for our PD with it, so the next one to find that log sheet will recive a business car as well! Just wanted to drop by and let you guys know you have been busted! Quote Link to comment
+L Frank Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Welcome! And thank you for taking the time to do a little research. We're really not all that scary once you get to know us! Quote Link to comment
TexasLawDog Posted July 28, 2009 Author Share Posted July 28, 2009 Haha, After I did some learning I didn't want to disrupt the hunt! Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 ...Just wanted to drop by and let you guys know you have been busted! Excellent. Thanks for the story. BTW you should log your find on the cache. Quote Link to comment
+solo63137 Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Haha, After I did some learning I didn't want to disrupt the hunt! Welcome to the site and thanks for returning the cache to its spot and not just throwing it away!!! I love seeing a post like this one from you as I think many times L.E. get a bad rap from the media and a few people who have had run ins (caused by their actions)... Hopefully, this got you interested in Geocaching and you'll give it a try... Thanks again for the post!!!! Quote Link to comment
TexasLawDog Posted July 28, 2009 Author Share Posted July 28, 2009 I am pretty interested in this as a future hobby I'm only 20 and am about to attend the LE academy, but I will get into it after the schooling! Quote Link to comment
+GEO*Trailblazer 1 Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Welcome fellow Texan. I know of another Officer who lives in Texas who is a Geocacher. You just might be surprised who is. Maybe you could set one up to cache all the muggles and get them off the streets. Quote Link to comment
+mfamilee Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Maybe you could set one up to cache all the muggles and get them off the streets. Quote Link to comment
+Casting Crowns Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 W00T! Texans in the house!!! I wonder how many officers are affected by geocachers? I know I've been stopped by 6 in just a year alone! Mostly the same city (North Richland Hills). Most area cachers know not to night cache in NRH unless you want to get stopped. They're definitely on the job! Quote Link to comment
+Gimpy13 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 As a Texan who was out in those wee hours sticking caches back into their hidey-holes, I'm hoping that if someone saw my partner and I that they ended up with someone like you getting the call! ....was it East Texas? 'Cause we were over there all weekend caching and those hides can be TOUGH! Quote Link to comment
oakenwood Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Another cache muggled due to lack of stealth. At least the muggles put it back. They even added swag. Quote Link to comment
TexasLawDog Posted August 22, 2009 Author Share Posted August 22, 2009 Another cache muggled due to lack of stealth. At least the muggles put it back. They even added swag. Not just any muggles, the "Police Muggles" lol Good luck guys! Quote Link to comment
K-9Patrol Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 Hello TexasLawDog, and welcome to geocaching. I'm a K-9 officer in West Virginia and have been caching since early last year. I just introduced a cop buddy from North Carolina to the sport. I'm laid up right now with a broken leg, due to a geocaching trip. Please read my story I posted on this section of the forums. I have informed my whole dept. of geocaching, so if they ever get a similar call to yours, they'll know what it is. It's always good to see a brother of the badge on the forums. Quote Link to comment
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