Clan Riffster Posted March 5, 2010 Posted March 5, 2010 Just thought I'd share with y'all. On page 8, post 379 of the dreaded "Cache Maggot" thread, a kind hearted muggle with the moniker of lisajanke posted: Help, I took a geocache and did not know I was not supposed to. I thought you were supposed to find and take them, I was working in training for the Mounted Search and Rescue, volunteering to find missing persons. I have not way of putting it back and want to give it back.....Lisa. Thanks for your help. If you do not want to help. do not email me to give me grief either. It has taken me a very long time to log in to this site and I respect your hobby and want to make it right...... I sent her an e-mail, and she promptly mailed me the cache. A scan of the logs told me it was Panther in the Den's "CCX - Pillbox" cache, GC1JX5R. I e-mailed Panther, telling them what transpired, offering to mail the cache to them, and they said I could keep it. Whoo Hoo!! I love preforms! Anywho, I just thought it was kewl that some good could come out of that trainwreck of a thread. Thanx Lisa! Quote
+J the Goat Posted March 5, 2010 Posted March 5, 2010 Pretty cool all around. Might be cool of you to make some sort of tribute cache. Maybe email Lisa and see what her favorite animal is, or ask her to name it for you, something like that, then acknowledge her thoughtful actions on the description page? You probably already had similar ideas, sorry I'm just putting on "paper" what was already going to happen. Or don't. Either way, congrats on the preform! Quote
+chachi44089 Posted March 5, 2010 Posted March 5, 2010 That worked out well.I wonder how many people hear about geocaching,grab a GPS and head out not knowing what to do with the cache once found.I have read a few post by beginners of this type.It would be a desaster if someone like my neighbor"whom I told about geocaching"decided to try it out and came home to show me his trunk full of treasure.. Quote
+BlueDeuce Posted March 5, 2010 Posted March 5, 2010 Cool! A great example of why it's always a good idea to include a stash note in your cache. Quote
+Stargazer22 Posted March 5, 2010 Posted March 5, 2010 That's great Riff! It's nice to see a story that ends on a high note. Now you need to find a really remote spot that needs a nice waterproof container. You should give it a cool name to reflect how you got the cache, like "Kindness to Strangers"! Quote
+sbell111 Posted March 5, 2010 Posted March 5, 2010 Just thought I'd share with y'all. On page 8, post 379 of the dreaded "Cache Maggot" thread, a kind hearted muggle with the moniker of lisajanke posted: Help, I took a geocache and did not know I was not supposed to. I thought you were supposed to find and take them, I was working in training for the Mounted Search and Rescue, volunteering to find missing persons. I have not way of putting it back and want to give it back.....Lisa. Thanks for your help. If you do not want to help. do not email me to give me grief either. It has taken me a very long time to log in to this site and I respect your hobby and want to make it right...... I sent her an e-mail, and she promptly mailed me the cache. A scan of the logs told me it was Panther in the Den's "CCX - Pillbox" cache, GC1JX5R. I e-mailed Panther, telling them what transpired, offering to mail the cache to them, and they said I could keep it. Whoo Hoo!! I love preforms! Anywho, I just thought it was kewl that some good could come out of that trainwreck of a thread. Thanx Lisa! This simply cannot be. Everyone knows that the guy that got arrested was responsible for stealing every cache that ever disappeared in the right half of the country. Quote
Clan Riffster Posted March 5, 2010 Author Posted March 5, 2010 Everyone knows that the guy that got arrested was responsible for stealing every cache that ever disappeared in the right half of the country. Quote
+Castle Mischief Posted March 5, 2010 Posted March 5, 2010 This simply cannot be. Everyone knows that the guy that got arrested was responsible for stealing every cache that ever disappeared in the right half of the country. Just couldn't let the thread stay positive, could you? That's good news, Riffster. Thanks for sharing that! Quote
+sbell111 Posted March 5, 2010 Posted March 5, 2010 This simply cannot be. Everyone knows that the guy that got arrested was responsible for stealing every cache that ever disappeared in the right half of the country. Just couldn't let the thread stay positive, could you? That's good news, Riffster. Thanks for sharing that! I fail to see how my post had any effect on the thread's polarity. Quote
+ras_oscar Posted March 5, 2010 Posted March 5, 2010 I like happy endings. So long as tyhey don't involve tissue. Perhaps the memorial cache should be named " the kindness of Lisa", and this thread could be the page description. Quote
+DarkZen Posted March 5, 2010 Posted March 5, 2010 Another act of kindness by a stranger: Mike Ferguson to the rescue "The hiker completed the 11+ mile hike in a grueling 9+ hours, took away some valuable lessons from the experience, and decided to ask other geocachers for help in honoring the kindness shown by the mountain biker, Mike Ferguson." This has spawned innumerable trib caches in our area. Cool idea, I think. Quote
+WRITE SHOP ROBERT Posted March 5, 2010 Posted March 5, 2010 (edited) Not quite the same but I'm reminded if this thing that happened to me a few years ago... October 31, 2005 by WRITE SHOP ROBERT (966 found) WOW, in a very strange way, I found the logbook! I've been working at Bradley Video on Port Chicago Highway, and tonight was our last night in business. Shortly after I arrived at work, a little girl came to the counter with her brother and dad, to rent their videos. I saw that she had a cool little tiny spiral notebook in her hand, and wondered where I could get some that small, so I asked her where she had found it (thinking I could go there and buy some) and to my surprise she held it up proudly and told me that she had found it in a box at Mt. Diablo, and that's when I noticed the GeoCaching sticker on the cover! I asked if I could take a closer look, and then told them all about the game, and that I knew all the people who had signed the book. She agreed to let me have it so I could put it back where it belongs and I traded it for another notebook I bought earlier to use in my own cache to soon be hidden and called "Shutterbug was here". I'll go and find the actual cache soon, and put the book back into it's home! Posted that as a note, not a Find. Edited March 6, 2010 by WRITE SHOP ROBERT Quote
+WRASTRO Posted March 6, 2010 Posted March 6, 2010 Not wuote the same but I'm reminded if this thing that happened to me a few years ago... October 31, 2005 by WRITE SHOP ROBERT (966 found) WOW, in a very strange way, I found the logbook! I've been working at Bradley Video on Port Chicago Highway, and tonight was our last night in business. Shortly after I arrived at work, a little girl came to the counter with her brother and dad, to rent their videos. I saw that she had a cool little tiny spiral notebook in her hand, and wondered where I could get some that small, so I asked her where she had found it (thinking I could go there and buy some) and to my surprise she held it up proudly and told me that she had found it in a box at Mt. Diablo, and that's when I noticed the GeoCaching sticker on the cover! I asked if I could take a closer look, and then told them all about the game, and that I knew all the people who had signed the book. She agreed to let me have it so I could put it back where it belongs and I traded it for another notebook I bought earlier to use in my own cache to soon be hidden and called "Shutterbug was here". I'll go and find the actual cache soon, and put the book back into it's home! Posted that as a note, not a Find. So did you ever go find the cache and return the notebook? Or did you keep it? Quote
+WRITE SHOP ROBERT Posted March 6, 2010 Posted March 6, 2010 Not wuote the same but I'm reminded if this thing that happened to me a few years ago... October 31, 2005 by WRITE SHOP ROBERT (966 found) WOW, in a very strange way, I found the logbook! I've been working at Bradley Video on Port Chicago Highway, and tonight was our last night in business. Shortly after I arrived at work, a little girl came to the counter with her brother and dad, to rent their videos. I saw that she had a cool little tiny spiral notebook in her hand, and wondered where I could get some that small, so I asked her where she had found it (thinking I could go there and buy some) and to my surprise she held it up proudly and told me that she had found it in a box at Mt. Diablo, and that's when I noticed the GeoCaching sticker on the cover! I asked if I could take a closer look, and then told them all about the game, and that I knew all the people who had signed the book. She agreed to let me have it so I could put it back where it belongs and I traded it for another notebook I bought earlier to use in my own cache to soon be hidden and called "Shutterbug was here". I'll go and find the actual cache soon, and put the book back into it's home! Posted that as a note, not a Find. So did you ever go find the cache and return the notebook? Or did you keep it? Went looking for it, but could not find it...Maybe the little girl and her brother took the whole thing? I eventually replaced it with a new one, but I think I never logged a find on that one. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...20-91f255cb4fe9 Quote
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