+woodsters Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 Feel like your conducting criminal activity? My son and I were out yesterday and did 2 caches. On the first one we retrieved a TB which happened to be a Shrunken Head. Now here we are walking down a trail with a camera bag and a plastic bag with a shrunken head, and low and behold some guy comes by on a bike and starts talking to us. I'm thinking this guy probably thinks we are retrieving drugs or just buried a body and kept the head. Then driving down the road I look on the backseat and the shrunken head is sitting there in the bag. I start thinking, you know, this won't look very good if we got pulled over. My luck we will have Roscoe P. Coltrain pull us over. Then at the second cache, we were walking down a trail, headed back to the car and we pass an older couple. Here we are, with our legs all cut up from the previous caching site thorns and a mile away from the car. I can just imagine what they were thinking. How about you? You ever start to wonder how people view you while out caching? Brian Wood Woodsters Outdoors http://www.woodsters.com Quote Link to comment
+The Weasel Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 Easy solution, where long pants and a ski mask!!! Quote Link to comment
+Criminal Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 quote:Feel like your conducting criminal activity? Huh.......that happens to me every time. http://fp1.centurytel.net/Criminal_Page/ Quote Link to comment
Dinoprophet Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 One of the first caches I found was a huge container stuffed into a garbage bag under a log. I was spotted putting it back, and I filled the guy in completely so he wouldn't think I was hiding a body. Well the mountain was so beautiful that this guy built a mall and a pizza shack Yeah he built an ugly city because he wanted the mountain to love him back -- Dar Williams Quote Link to comment
Dru Morgan Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 Hehe, you filled a guy in completely? Now, in my state, that *is* criminal. Ever notice how anyone that caches more than you do is a maniac, while anyone that caches less than you do is an idiot? -Dru Morgan Quote Link to comment
+nittany dave Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 Often. When someone sees me coming out of the woods dirty and sweaty, I assume they're thinking that I was, 1) burying a body, 2) something horribly perverted or, 3) leaving an unapproved doot Quote Link to comment
+Bull Moose Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 The one time I was "caught" it was while rooting around in a forest looking for the cache. The person who caught me was a teenager with a twelve pack of low quality beer, who looked at me like he caught me with a body or something. I figured he wasn't going to call the cops without actually seeing a body, so I played it up. I just froze and stared him down, and had my dog come to attention and stare at him and then we slowly walked towards him until he ran away. I know, I know. I was feeling like a jerk that day... Insert pretentious quote or saying here. Quote Link to comment
+Desert_Warrior Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 Usually, I do not have any problems. But every now-and-then I have this urge to use hand signals to halt and dispurse the squad to either side of the trail when I saw someone approaching. Well, my son thought it was funny. Bet he ain't laughing now! Mike. Desert_Warrior (aka KD9KC). El Paso, Texas. Citizens of this land may own guns. Not to threaten their neighbors, but to ensure themselves of liberty and freedom. They are not assault weapons anymore... they are HOMELAND DEFENSE WEAPONS! Quote Link to comment
Dinoprophet Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Dru Morgan:Hehe, you filled a guy in completely? Now, in my state, that *is* criminal. No, Criminal is the guy who started the thread that's had everyone's mind in the gutter all week! Well the mountain was so beautiful that this guy built a mall and a pizza shack Yeah he built an ugly city because he wanted the mountain to love him back -- Dar Williams Quote Link to comment
nvc83 Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 quote: 1) burying a body,2) something horribly perverted you mean bodies arent good trades in a cache? hmm, guess ill have to stop that.... and #2, well, guess you'll just have to read some of her log entries... later, -nate some people are like slinkies- not really good for anything, but you cant help but smile when you see one tumble down the staris. Quote Link to comment
+CWL Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Dinoprophet:No, Criminal is the guy who started the http://ubbx.Groundspeak.com/6/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=5726007311&f=4016058331&m=51160416 that's had everyone's mind in the gutter all week! http://www.mi-geocaching.org/ _Well the mountain was so beautiful that this guy built a mall and a pizza shack Yeah he built an ugly city because he wanted the mountain to love him back_ -- Dar Williams LOL! Good one Dino! Quote Link to comment
motoXman Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 Everytime I find a cache, at the excact moment as I'm retreiving it from its hiding spot, I flashback to a scene from the movie "Shawshank Redemption" where Red is pulling the little tin out that was hidden in the rocks. He, quickly looks all around him guiltily, opens the container, then pulls out the letter and looks all around again. If you've never seen this movie, go rent it, it's a great classic IMHO, and as a geocacher, as soon as you see this scene you will also have it flashing in your mind at every cache thereafter. As for getting "caught" geocaching...I almost don't want to admit this, but....in all but the most remote locations (where I'm wearing a backback and holding a walking stick..inconspicous enough) part of my geo-supplies is a hard hat, large aluminum clipboard, orange safety vest, and tape measure clipped to my pocket. If I'm being observed, I stop every few yards or so, take a measurement, squiggle something on the clipboard, re-apply as needed. I can squat down near a busy intersection, closely examine every freakin' bush around looking for the cache and be completely ignored by both the general public AND the police. If someone should ever ask, and I suspect they never will, I'm not gonna lie or tell the truth, exactly...I'm mapping topographical GPS data coordinates for this area, sir. someday we'll look back on all this and plow into a parked car. Quote Link to comment
Soylent Green Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 Thaaaaaaaaanx Moto, I just borrowed a GPS for my first hunt and now I have that running through my head....Great movie. I can only think of one that I like better. Hmmmmmmm...I forget which one....Lol SYLENT GREEN IS PEPLE!!! Remember, Tuesday is Soylent Green Day...... Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 I picked up on someone else's idea of picking up trash when being observed. It's amazing how disinterested the observer becomes and will absolutely not look you in the eye when you are picking up trash. Guess they don't want to be guilted into doing the same thing. The trash bag also helps to cover the ammo can when it is out in the open. Cheers! TL Quote Link to comment
claypigeon58 Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 I usually wear camo when I geocache cuz it's most comfortable. I always seem to exit a brushpile or wooded area right in front of someone, so they wonder what I'm doing with a backpack by myself in the woods dressed like Rambo. Two caches I've hunted have been under bridges, so that really raises suspicions. I had one guy jokingly tell me to plant the bomb on some other bridge as this one was already wired. Quote Link to comment
+Scook Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 quote:Originally posted by nvc83:... you mean bodies arent good trades in a cache? hmm, guess ill have to stop that... Read the GUIDE TO CREATING AND HIDING A CACHE! Do not put food in a cache! "Adrift in a world he never made!" Quote Link to comment
+Confucius' Cat Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 Whilst looking for a cache at a local covered bridge at night with my nephew dragonboy24, I had delightful reminiscences of my younger days prowling the streets at night and hiding from car headlights- assuming they all were "the cops". As cars would come by (infrequently), I called out to dragonboy "turn off your light and get down"! It lent a definite air of excitement to the hunt. I bet if we had been unsuccessful at hiding we would have been thought to be terrorists rigging the bridge for sure. Often when caching at night I feel like some kind of commando or something. It's cool! I like night caching. Caint never did nothing. GDAE, Dave Quote Link to comment
THE WARDEN Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 The very first cache that me and my friends went on was over 4 hours away and we went becuase no one had been there. we left around 11:00, got there, went across the river by canoe and found the cache so that we would be the first ones...I can tell ya geocaching at night is "the bomb". There isn't anything quite like it. One time we actually got stopped in Bella Vista at a cache located in a park. When we told the cops what we were doing, they helped us onto the next one! Quote Link to comment
+evergreenhiker! Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 Yep, many times. When I first started caching I was more conscious then I'm now, but yeah when I'm searching in the bushes at a busy park I'm thinking the other folks must be thinking what hte heck is he doing?! Another cache in Tacoma I didn't car3e for too much was in a park...Mother's Day Cache I think had me going real close to a makeshift shelter made by a homeless person...looked like a beginnings of a log cabin! Teh cache was within 20 feet of a stanley thermos. I was glad to get the box and get the heck out before I had a potential run in. I felt like I was tresspassing down there even though it's a park. I don't like private property caches and won't do them unless it's veryk clear that it's ok..e.g.Seth!'s famous ones right at his house. It gave me the willies first time I did his cache. Tried to find the cache quickly and get the heck out...this was before I knew him. His little boy Adrian did wave at me though as I left. Oh yeah, Moun10Bike, I, and Beefcider got stopped by the cops just when we were to finish the 5th and last stage of a very cool cache in Tacoma...Haunted Night cache. They told us to quit as teh park were closed Another time, I was doing Dayvi's Sick's Stadium one in Seattle, cops came over and drilled me with questions. Once I made it clear what I was doing they let me on with what I was doing. Quote Link to comment
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