Bomb squad was called out today...

[+ZeroHecksGiven]

I'll make this short. You can read a more thorough account of my day on the cache page at: GC27VHY

 

Anyways, a cache was published last night, a paddle cache. I don't have a way to do these, so I kind of forgot about it. I wake up this morning, had some time on my hands and figured I'd make it happen. Threw on the wetsuit, found a tube from the summer and drove out there. Got to the island without too much hassle and was only short a GPS. Which I left in the car on purpose, hehe. I had a general idea of where I should be headed and figured it wouldn't be tough. Well, with the hint, it seemed like every tree on the island might have this cache in it's roots. So I'm searching.....and searching until i find it. But it's in a bag, bummer, oh well. So I start to open it and instantly imagine seeing some dog poop in it or something. But wait, I see dynamite/fireworks. I have no idea what it is, but I set it down gently and walk away. I search for another 30 minutes before giving up. No FTF today. As I'm working my way back to the dock, a sheriff happens to pull up. He later told me he hangs out there because of the people who break into cars all the time. Anyways, I walk up to him, tell him what I find and he gets on the radio. About an hour later, we have the bomb tech, a boat and I'm guiding them to what I found. I'm a little nervous at this point thinking I'm wasting their time with a kid who hid some fireworks last summer or something. Anyways, we get there, I point out the bag and then I run off to try and find this cache since I got a second chance. Only lasted two minutes before he was walking back to the boat. He tells us it's several backyard pipe bombs and they'll have to blow it up. So we motor back to the dock, a boss looking guy shows up, they go back out and blow it up. Loudest thing I've ever heard. I had no idea it would be THAT loud, wow. The video I got with my phone did it NO justice.

Anyways, I got out of there, hit up a ten year event, went back, floated out there, found the cache eventually and claimed my 50th FTF. What a day...

 

edit: Here is the video I took. Not much, but yeah.... http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150175740330562

Edited May 3, 2010 by NWCREW

[+KevinWinkler]

WOW! Great story, and one I hope I never have to live

[+Chrysalides]

But wait, I see dynamite/fireworks. I have no idea what it is, but I set it down gently and walk away. I search for another 30 minutes before giving up.

OK, that's dedication right there!

 

Glad no one was hurt. Definitely an interesting story.

[+thedeadpirate]

Great story. I believe it would have been worth it even without the FTF.

 

*** This post was intended to show that I enjoyed reading about the experience. No other tone or intention should be read into it.

[+ZeroHecksGiven]

Also, while I was talking to the original cop later on, he had mentioned that he was somewhat familiar with geocaching in that when they trained the cops how to use the GPS devices for things like finding a lost person or locating something like these pipe bombs, they used geocaches and had the cops find those. Which is probably why he asked me right away if I had the coords for the pipe bombs, but I told him I didn't take anything with me since I basically swam over there.

[+TheAlabamaRambler]

Also, while I was talking to the original cop later on, he had mentioned that he was somewhat familiar with geocaching in that when they trained the cops how to use the GPS devices for things like finding a lost person or locating something like these pipe bombs, they used geocaches and had the cops find those. Which is probably why he asked me right away if I had the coords for the pipe bombs, but I told him I didn't take anything with me since I basically swam over there.

To me that bolded part is the most interesting. Train cops with caches, that's a great idea!

[+hydnsek]

Dustin, you're always doin' it wolf-style. Another great story.

[+brittany19]

Wow, I definately did not see any explosives when I hid the cache. Seems like you had quite the day though:)

Edited May 5, 2010 by brittany19

[+DragonsWest]

Probably spoiled someone's "fishing" expedition.

 

Not unheard of to drop dynamite into the water to stun fish.

[Luckless]

This wasn't in Connecticut was it?

[+GeoGeeBee]

Probably spoiled someone's "fishing" expedition.

 

Not unheard of to drop dynamite into the water to stun fish.

 

That was what I thought of when I read the OP. More specifically, I thought of the punch line to an old joke: "Are you gonna sit there and talk, or are you gonna fish?"

[+KJcachers]

link doesn't work for me.

 

Edit: got it to work by opening in a new window

Edited May 5, 2010 by KJcachers

[+brittany19]

This wasn't in Connecticut was it?

 

No, it was in washington, I'm not exactly sure what city/town though. It's by eatonville.

[+EscapeFromFlatland]

Military side of me thinks that's pretty awesome, even if the video doesnt do it justice.

I've been around the artillery crews too long..

[+ZeroHecksGiven]

http://vimeo.com/11515433 that link should work for anyone

Straight outta my phone, you can actually see the flash and see how long it takes for the concussion to reach ya. After I upload it, the flash is gone from the compression of these sites.

But yeah, interesting day for sure

[knowschad]

Probably spoiled someone's "fishing" expedition.

Not unheard of to drop dynamite into the water to stun fish.

If that were true, then wouldn't the police have said "It was dynamite" instead of saying "It was pipe bombs"?

[+wimseyguy]

It certainly is a most appropriately named lake for this action.

 

Pipe Bombs blown up on Lake Kapowsin