+Cissy PSP Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 I just had to report this. About a month ago, while geocaching out of town, somehow, I dropped my coin purse in some bushes. We were hunting for a cache.......which we never found lol. In my DNF post I happen to mention that I lost my coin purse containing $6-$7. Lo and behold, I get an email last night from a new geocacher saying he found my coin purse and asked where to mail it!! I was in shock. The hoesty of this gentleman renewed my faith in people. I'm tellin' ya, the geocaching community can be very awesome! Just wanted to share this wonderful news. Back to regular programming Cissy San Jose CA. Quote Link to comment
+GeoReapers Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 That is completely rad. Puts a little faith back in people. Quote Link to comment
+sword fern Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Another incentive to add to geocaching. Long ago a cacher lost his GPS and some days later a cacher found it. Quote Link to comment
+SwineFlew Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 I love to hear these stories. I found someone GPS while I was down in NV and it got back to the rightful owner. Its who I am, I will go an extra mile for others. The cache log Quote Link to comment
+Jennifer&Dean Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 At geowoodstock 9 my husband lost his wallet while walking along a trail. He had been wearing a kilt that day and the cachers who found it recognized from his drivers license that it was the guy in the kilt. I was waiting in the parking lot while he and some friends grabbed another cache and a lady walked up to me and asked if I had seen the kilted guy. I told her it was my husband and he was up the hill, and, after confirming that I knew the name on the Drivers License, she left his wallet with me and ran up the hill to log the other cache. As Dean put it... we were 2000+ miles from home, in a state park in PA, surrounded by geocachers who tend to be some of the nicest people on earth. Best place to lose a wallet ever! I think it was Karma for the GPSr we found near a cache and returned to it's owner the year before. Or at least, that helped. Jen Quote Link to comment
+cache_test_dummies Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Lo and behold, I get an email last night from a new geocacher saying he found my coin purse and asked where to mail it!! I was in shock. The hoesty of this gentleman renewed my faith in people. I'm tellin' ya, the geocaching community can be very awesome! Just wanted to share this wonderful news. Very nice story! ... assuming that when you get the coin purse back there is still $6 - $7 in it. Quote Link to comment
GOF and Bacall Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 I just had to report this. About a month ago, while geocaching out of town, somehow, I dropped my coin purse in some bushes. We were hunting for a cache.......which we never found lol. In my DNF post I happen to mention that I lost my coin purse containing $6-$7. Lo and behold, I get an email last night from a new geocacher saying he found my coin purse and asked where to mail it!! I was in shock. The hoesty of this gentleman renewed my faith in people. I'm tellin' ya, the geocaching community can be very awesome! Just wanted to share this wonderful news. Back to regular programming Cissy San Jose CA. Awesome! May I recommend that you give that honest sole the address of your favorite charity? Quote Link to comment
+hikerT Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Not as an important an item such as a wallet or GPS, but I left my pen on the ground at a cache, and mentioned it in my online log. Next cacher had read the log, and put the pen in the cache. Next cacher after that pulled my pen out of the cache, and contacted me asking if I wanted my pen back LOL. Turns out we are signed up for the same event next week, so I'll get my pen back. Just remembered I also lost my good sunglasses at a cave cache, and didn't realize until we got out and back to the car. The next cacher found them, saw my online log saying I had lost them there, contacted me and returned them at an event we were both attending a week or 2 later. Quote Link to comment
+Rainbow Spirit Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 So about a year ago, while out caching I get a call from a phone a friend, "do you have your wallet?", well yes....oh wait a minute, no! So he tells me that a fellow cacher has just found it at a cache I just did that morning, and here is his number. So I ring him and I meet up with him and his two boys at a cache, I get my wallet back, and we hook up for some team caching for the rest of the day. Later on I hid a personal cache for his boys not far from their home, with a $50 FTF reward. Quote Link to comment
+hankpixie Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 On a vacation this summer I was at a rest area in Chamberlain, South Dakota in July when I went off to find a cache (every rest area has one right?...I think it's now part of the TOS!), anyways it was getting dark and I was trying to find GZ in the woods, long story short I ran into a branch which sprung my eyeglasses off and shot them to the ground while being eaten alive by mosquitoes, I mean they were terrible. I'm in shorts and a t shirt being just devoured and sweating profusely. I was in a stream and the terrain was uneven and it was just too dark to see 5 feet in front of you. I normally wouldn't care about the glasses but they weren't cheap and had nifty detachable frames. So, I posted a note on the cache page GCE411 asking to be contacted if they were found. Unfortunately I was about 30m from the cache and obviously from reading the logs had taken the wrong path in to the cache site. So maybe if you happen to be on 1-90 going East in the Chamberlain area you might have a peek for me...... Quote Link to comment
+DanOCan Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 Yep, cachers are great. A lost compass introduced me to a fellow cacher who has since become a really good friend. The whole story is detailed in this description of this cache: Giving Thanks: One For UK Can Another time I lost a lens cap and a cacher found it while searching the same juniper bush and mailed it back to me. Quote Link to comment
+riffraff9000 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 So about a year ago, while out caching I get a call from a phone a friend, "do you have your wallet?", well yes....oh wait a minute, no! So he tells me that a fellow cacher has just found it at a cache I just did that morning, and here is his number. So I ring him and I meet up with him and his two boys at a cache, I get my wallet back, and we hook up for some team caching for the rest of the day. Later on I hid a personal cache for his boys not far from their home, with a $50 FTF reward. Very cool. Quote Link to comment
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