claypigeon58 Posted April 10, 2003 Posted April 10, 2003 The log entry says it all. If there's any humor to be had in this, it's in the new "This cache temporarily unavailable" banner on top. Ya think? A thousand apologies to bspeng, the cache owner. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=49215 Quote
Swagger Posted April 10, 2003 Posted April 10, 2003 quote:Originally posted by claypigeon58:The log entry says it all. If there's any humor to be had in this, it's in the new "This cache temporarily unavailable" banner on top. Ya think? A thousand apologies to bspeng, the cache owner. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=49215 Bad claypigeon58! Bad! Hand over your GPS! No Geocaching for you for a month! Well, at least you finally found it! -- Random fortune: Quote
+GEO*Trailblazer 1 Posted April 10, 2003 Posted April 10, 2003 Should have took your fishun pole as the cache page suggests..Sorry for the mishap,thought that I would poke a little fun at you,I could Imagine myself in your boat,that sounds like the things that happen to me...Thats Life..HappyGeotrails. WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS *GEOTRYAGAIN* http://www.msnusers.com/MissouriTrails Quote
+oregone Posted April 10, 2003 Posted April 10, 2003 The alternate title to this thread could be, 'Should This Count As a Find?' all rights reserved, all wrongs reversed Quote
+ZoomZoom Posted April 10, 2003 Posted April 10, 2003 I quess this makes it the one that got away. Quote
+Team Shibby Posted April 10, 2003 Posted April 10, 2003 A lesson learned I hope, I like your honesty, however.... Is it really necessary to destroy a natural area? Dead tree stump or not, please let nature take its course and tread lightly...sheesh Sorry I had too Kar TEAM SHIBBY!!!! Krs, Kar & Na Quote
+DeerChaser & Company Posted April 11, 2003 Posted April 11, 2003 Do what I do when you can't find one. Set the place on fire, it will show up in time. This way your not pushing stumps over or breaking branches. Rino 110 MeriGreen 128 Quote
Northern-Lights Posted April 11, 2003 Posted April 11, 2003 At least everyone involved has a sense of humer about this......I can't believe you didn't jump in to save this historic treasure...what a log entry that would have been.....so what if the ice just recently broke up......chicken!! Anyway, I agree that we probably shouldn't be breaking up stumps and logs.....I recently hid a series of micros in a park that I got permission to hide them in......one of the first two groups to look for it literally tore a nearby log to pieces looking for the micro that was in a stump only 15 ft away. I was floored and dismayed. Earth First!!! We'll cache the other planets later!! Quote
+RichardMoore Posted April 11, 2003 Posted April 11, 2003 quote:Originally posted by DeerChaser & Poni:Do what I do when you can't find one. Set the place on fire, it will show up in time. This way your not pushing stumps over or breaking branches. Rino 110 MeriGreen 128 Only start a fire if the cache is in an ammo can. Tupperware melts. RichardMoore www.geocities.com/richardsrunaway Quote
+Kouros Posted April 11, 2003 Posted April 11, 2003 quote:Originally posted by RichardMoore:Only start a fire if the cache is in an ammo can. Tupperware melts. So much the better! Saves having to expend unnecessary energy to open the cache. ------ An it harm none, do what ye will Quote
+Team Smallville Posted April 11, 2003 Posted April 11, 2003 Claypigeon- I had an experience recently where I found a travel bug and it had all of these things attached to it- keychains, beads, etc. Well, I was having difficulty getting it out of the cache so I thought to myself *Who put all of this crap on here!* I took all the stuff off only to discover, once I got home and read the TB discription page, that those things were supposed to be on there. Each person to find the bug was to add something on it. I felt terrible. I retrospect, I should have known what all of that stuff was. But, I guess hindsight is 20-20. Coyote Fan Quote
+DeerChaser & Company Posted April 11, 2003 Posted April 11, 2003 The one bad thing about setting the fire is you have to be very careful with the flaming critters running by you! I don't think they can see to well. You would be amazed at how fast a turtle can run. Rino 110 MeriGreen 128 Quote
+RichardMoore Posted April 11, 2003 Posted April 11, 2003 quote:Originally posted by DeerChaser & Poni:The one bad thing about setting the fire is you have to be very careful with the flaming critters running by you! I don't think they can see to well. You would be amazed at how fast a turtle can run. Rino 110 MeriGreen 128 I'm thinking 'Lunch Time!' Is that what you would call 'fast food'? RichardMoore www.geocities.com/richardsrunaway Quote
+rayt333 Posted April 11, 2003 Posted April 11, 2003 claypigeon58 Thanks for sharing this with us. I hope I can never top this geocaching story, but I can sure picture it all happening to someone. Quote
+Egnix Posted April 11, 2003 Posted April 11, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Trailblazer # 1:Should have took your fishun pole as the cache page suggests..Sorry for the mishap,thought that I would poke a little fun at you,I could Imagine myself in your boat,that sounds like the things that happen to me...Thats Life..HappyGeotrails. His boat!? What boat? If he had a boat he could have rescued the cache! Quote
pprefont Posted April 11, 2003 Posted April 11, 2003 The cache was originally called "Fish out of Water", but "Catch & Release" is probably a more appropriate name now... Quote
+DustyJacket Posted April 11, 2003 Posted April 11, 2003 So, he didn't sign the log book, eh? Can't be a find I suppose.... DustyJacket Not all those that wander are lost. But in my case... Quote
+Renegade Knight Posted April 11, 2003 Posted April 11, 2003 I did something very similar and killed a cache. There was site on a canal with reeds and the like. The site was also a dump site for animald and concrete. The clue was "A magnetic key holder" so after the first skunking I went back and looked on everything metal and every rebar on every concrete. There was this old stump that had been dumped there. So I looked in it and started to push it over to look under it but it was big and would not give, so I quit. Then after looking at all the metal a second time I went back to the stump. This time I put a foot on it and pushed, my foot slipped and the stump broke in half. Half of it flipped off down the embankment the other half stayed. Well what should appear but a magnetic key holder in the bottom half of the stump. I emailed the cache owner and had to eat crow for awhile. "Reflections of a dead cache" was placed a short time later. One of his friends also placed two caches in it's honor. One flipped me **** in the description "Bad Monkey No Banana" and the other was placed near the original cache. Live and learn. ============================== Wherever you go there you are. Quote
+Team GPSaxophone Posted April 11, 2003 Posted April 11, 2003 According to this thread, it isn't a find unless you replace the container in its original location. Quote
+DeerChaser & Company Posted April 11, 2003 Posted April 11, 2003 I'm thinking 'Lunch Time!' Is that what you would call 'fast food'? LMAO Yes sir this would be fast food, over an open flame!!! Rino 110 MeriGreen 128 Quote
+Stunod Posted April 11, 2003 Posted April 11, 2003 The cache page says: quote:Re-hide the container so that it won't be plundered (or too easily found). Sounds like you did a great job of that!! And a good thing the previous finder followed this instruction: quote:Be sure to carefully reseal the container so that it remains watertight. "Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand." Quote
+RJFerret Posted April 11, 2003 Posted April 11, 2003 quote:Originally posted by claypigeon58:The log entry says it all. If there's any humor to be had in this, it's in the new "This cache temporarily unavailable" banner on top. Grin! Thanks for sharing the "entertainment"! I don't think it's "temporarily unavailable", I think it is truely now a locationless cache! "This cache, in white tupperware, is floating down the X river with X items in it. Please sign log, trade items and send on it's way." Perhaps it should be renamed, "Message in a Bottle".. Wink, Randy Quote
+wimseyguy Posted April 11, 2003 Posted April 11, 2003 You said the cache that got away was HOW BIG??!! These changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes; Nothing remains quite the same. Through all of the islands and all of the highlands, If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane Quote
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