+BlueNacho Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 We have bad things in and near caches. We have bad people in and near caches. Whats next? Oh yeah! Bad caches themselves. This is the thread to post about all those terrible cache ideas that litter our game board. I found a cache with coordinates 200 feet off. I'd miss it, except the FTFer drove past me on the way out. Sorry if this is already a thread. I've never seen one, and it isn't on the first few pages. Quote Link to comment
+Max and 99 Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Tupperware containers secured to the trunk of a tree, 5' up, by duct taping all around the tree in order to hold the tupperware in place. (I was FTF and the duct tape was already coming off and had dirt all over it!) Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Tupperware containers secured to the trunk of a tree, 5' up, by duct taping all around the tree in order to hold the tupperware in place. (I was FTF and the duct tape was already coming off and had dirt all over it!) I was going to say you gotta be kidding, but I suspect you aren't. Quote Link to comment
+lemon16 Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 http://coord.info/map?ll=37.820328,-115.919538&z=10 Quote Link to comment
+MoonCatKDT & Peanut Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 Worst idea one I found was a plastic type of 'ammo can'. It looked more like a tackle box. It was wrapped in black tape, and sitting in the middle of a public yard/park along a busy street to an international ferry. It wasn't hidden at all and the seal on the box was broken making it a nice hangout spot for everything from mold to earwigs. I'm surprised it never went missing. Quote Link to comment
+NicknPapa Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 A three gallon bucket in a tiny little park with no hiding place big enough for it so it just sits in the brush at the edge. It's working on it's second year there. Quote Link to comment
+entogeek Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 (edited) In amongst all of this lies a lip balm tube thrown on the ground. After numerous DNF's, the CO threw down a second container (seems they couldn't find the initial one). A number of us reached out to this new, and presumably young, CO to provide assistance but unfortunately they reacted in a very negative manner both on the cache page and in a log. Would appear that they have since left the game. Edited March 30, 2011 by entogeek Quote Link to comment
+entogeek Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 In amongst all of this lies a lip balm tube thrown on the ground. After numerous DNF's, the CO threw down a second container (seems they couldn't find the initial one). A number of us reached out to this new, and presumably young, CO to provide assistance but unfortunately they reacted in a very negative manner both on the cache page and in a log. Would appear that they have since left the game. Did I mention the syringe with attached needle that another cacher found in amongst this stuff? Quote Link to comment
+Chief301 Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 Actually, if you think about it, a syringe would make a great micro cache container, wouldn't it? Without the needle, of course. If you plug the little hole where the needle would go the plunger would seal up the other end...pull out the plunger to open the container. It would have a perfect waterproof seal, wouldn't it? Hey, I may be onto something here... . Quote Link to comment
+Ike 13 Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I rarely waste my time in such areas. Quote Link to comment
+iamgeek Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 I was first to find on a ziploc bad inside a cinder block. Cache was disabled within a week of publishing and then archived a month after that. Quote Link to comment
+dirt_empire Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 I was first to find on a ziploc bad inside a cinder block. Cache was disabled within a week of publishing and then archived a month after that. Ziplock bag, under a skirt that wouldn't fully go down. Filled with water and toys. Log was soaked. When I posted my find and a "Needs Maintenance" the owner became very hostile over their amazing hiding skills, and said that the cache didn't need to be replaced, just left to dry. I followed this with a picture of the cache in another NM post, which then had the cache taken down for maintenance (which never happened). There were two caches like this within a mile of eachother, which I think would be safe to assume had the same owner. Quote Link to comment
+antully Posted May 7, 2011 Share Posted May 7, 2011 I was caching in a park and one of the caches was a metal tin can with a plastic lid on the top. When I opened the cache there was a yellow trash bag inside with all of the wet toys and logbook. The tin can was so rusted that it actually blended with the brown leaves creating a good camouflage by mistake. my friends wouldn't touch it, fearing of Tetanus. Quote Link to comment
+Wadcutter Posted May 7, 2011 Share Posted May 7, 2011 3 of the worst locally. 1) A micro hidden in an old cemetery. On the cache page the CO states the cache isn't at the posted coordinates. The hint is it's not along the border. It's hidden at the base of one of the many trees in the cemetery about 150 ft from the posted coords. This isn't a noobee CO either. She has several hundred caches hidden around the area. 2) Different CO. It was in the fall when the CO took a sycamore leaf, taped a buffalo tube to one side and she tossed it on the ground in a wooded area near a creek. As with all wooded areas in the fall the ground is covered with fallen leaves. No hints. After several DNFs and comments from unsuccessful hunters the CO posted a snippy note saying it should have been an obvious find since it was a sycamore leaf and there are no sycamore trees in the area. 3) Same CO as #2. She hid a cache at a municipal airport next to the airport's main power control box, main radar antenna, and less than 100 yds from the main gate of the Air National Guard HQ. His CO isn't some kid. She's a retired Army Colonel. Quote Link to comment
+badger10 Posted May 7, 2011 Share Posted May 7, 2011 I found one that was hidden under a small rock. You guessed it..it was a baggie with a pile of mush for a log. It was just off a busy street and beside a sign with nothing around for 50 yards. Quote Link to comment
+CacheTestDumbEase Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Actually, if you think about it, a syringe would make a great micro cache container, wouldn't it? Without the needle, of course. If you plug the little hole where the needle would go the plunger would seal up the other end...pull out the plunger to open the container. It would have a perfect waterproof seal, wouldn't it? Hey, I may be onto something here... . If you plug the hole, the plunger wouldn't be able to be put back in to the syringe. The hole pushes out liquid, but it ALSO pushes the air out. If you seal that, well...just get one from your local pharmacy and try it. I don't know how to describe it so that it makes sense, but the plunger pushes air out and if the air is trapped you can't put the plunger in. Not sure if that makes sense. Quote Link to comment
+Chief301 Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Actually, if you think about it, a syringe would make a great micro cache container, wouldn't it? Without the needle, of course. If you plug the little hole where the needle would go the plunger would seal up the other end...pull out the plunger to open the container. It would have a perfect waterproof seal, wouldn't it? Hey, I may be onto something here... . If you plug the hole, the plunger wouldn't be able to be put back in to the syringe. The hole pushes out liquid, but it ALSO pushes the air out. If you seal that, well...just get one from your local pharmacy and try it. I don't know how to describe it so that it makes sense, but the plunger pushes air out and if the air is trapped you can't put the plunger in. Not sure if that makes sense. No, that actually makes perfect sense. I just hadn't thought it all the way through, I guess. Simple physics at work Quote Link to comment
+Disintagrator Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 I foud a cache once( it has since been archived ) after looking for 20 minutes the coords kept moving me to the middle of the road I finally started investigating the coordinates and discovered that the cache was tied with a wire to the center of a cattle guard right on the the yellow line of a very busy highway with a posted speed limit of 45 MPH. Quote Link to comment
Snugglesofdoom Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 The worst cache I have come across to date would have been the plastic ziploc baggie cache. There were numerous issues with this cache, the first being the plastic baggie as the container and the second being that GZ was 90 feet AWAY from the cache. It took reading all the previous "Found It" logs to find the correct GZ and even then I found it a few feet off where the last cacher had found it. ; Quote Link to comment
+WI CavalryScout Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 Actually, if you think about it, a syringe would make a great micro cache container, wouldn't it? Without the needle, of course. If you plug the little hole where the needle would go the plunger would seal up the other end...pull out the plunger to open the container. It would have a perfect waterproof seal, wouldn't it? Hey, I may be onto something here... . If you plug the hole, the plunger wouldn't be able to be put back in to the syringe. The hole pushes out liquid, but it ALSO pushes the air out. If you seal that, well...just get one from your local pharmacy and try it. I don't know how to describe it so that it makes sense, but the plunger pushes air out and if the air is trapped you can't put the plunger in. Not sure if that makes sense. No, that actually makes perfect sense. I just hadn't thought it all the way through, I guess. Simple physics at work What you could use is a horse worming syringe. It is like a medical syringe but only bigger. Each one comes with a cap on the end that can be taken off and put back on. So to put the cache back you could push the plunger down and then put the cap on the end. I am pretty sure you can take the plunger out of these although I have never tried. This was kind of hard to explain so here is a picture to show what the heck I am talking about. Quote Link to comment
+jgc3 Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 I recently found one without anything but tape holding on the lid... when it rains it will be a swimming pool not a log book... Tupperware containers secured to the trunk of a tree, 5' up, by duct taping all around the tree in order to hold the tupperware in place. (I was FTF and the duct tape was already coming off and had dirt all over it!) Quote Link to comment
+Team ChipsNDip Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 After several DNFs and comments from unsuccessful hunters the CO posted a snippy note saying it should have been an obvious find since it was a sycamore leaf and there are no sycamore trees in the area. That made me laugh out loud. As ridiculous as that is, it almost makes sense in a geeky way. Reminds me of Sheldon from Big Bang Theory... some people just live in a different world than the "normals". Quote Link to comment
+Sore Runner Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 I can't say that this wouldn't be a bad place to hide something, as long as the owner/property owner knew of it. But the worse one for me was on an ATM and there were numerous ones around. After looking for a bit one night I felt like I was in the wrong so I left. Three days later there were a lot of comments about being yelled at and having the police called on them for being suspicious. Quote Link to comment
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