+Meadowgreen Martians Posted March 1, 2004 Share Posted March 1, 2004 Last summer the kids an I decided to do a local cache called the "back and forth cache. " It was a multiple cache, and at the first location I noticed and unusual pile of branches a little deeper in the woods. The kids and I went over and it was a stolen car that had been stripped of the radio and speakers and was carefully covered with branches. It was within 40 feet of the cache. We reported it to the police and waited for them to come. He was a little suspicious at first why we were way out in the woods (about 200 yards from the closest road). We explained what we were doing and he let us go. Two weeks later another container from the cache was found and the people thought it was a bomb. The bomb squad was called and they blew it up. Needless to say the cache was archived after that. Quote Link to comment
+Geo Ho Posted March 1, 2004 Share Posted March 1, 2004 I often see the rusted out remnants of cars in the most unusual places and in the remotest of areas. Often it there are no longer any visible signs of a viable roadway . . . stolen?? Who knows . . . but there they are and there they'll most likely remain. Quote Link to comment
+TeamK-9 Posted March 1, 2004 Share Posted March 1, 2004 A local cache in my area (GCGJMR) is actaully in an area with lots of old rusted out cars in the area... Quote Link to comment
+GeckoGeek Posted March 2, 2004 Share Posted March 2, 2004 I often see the rusted out remnants of cars in the most unusual places and in the remotest of areas. Often it there are no longer any visible signs of a viable roadway . . . stolen?? Who knows . . . but there they are and there they'll most likely remain. I've seen that too. My best guess is that some kids decided the best was to retire the old junker that still ran is see just how far they could go. You might be surprised how far you can take a car when you don't give a rip about what happens to the car or getting back out. If they were stolen cars, they were stolen decades before. Quote Link to comment
+Lazyboy & Mitey Mite Posted March 2, 2004 Share Posted March 2, 2004 Where I live it's about 30 miles to the nearest junk yard, 50 feet to a forest. Guess where the cars end up??? Quote Link to comment
+planetrobert Posted March 2, 2004 Share Posted March 2, 2004 Where I live it's about 30 miles to the nearest junk yard, 50 feet to a forest. Guess where the cars end up??? I got a neighbor that figures it is half a mile to a junkyard and two steps out his backdoor. Guess where his old cars endup Quote Link to comment
+Lazyboy & Mitey Mite Posted March 2, 2004 Share Posted March 2, 2004 Where I live it's about 30 miles to the nearest junk yard, 50 feet to a forest. Guess where the cars end up??? I got a neighbor that figures it is half a mile to a junkyard and two steps out his backdoor. Guess where his old cars endup My place here was a graveyard for old cars when I bought it. Part of the sales agreement was that he move his old cars. He moved them off into the forest but at least they aren't in the backyard anymore. Quote Link to comment
+DeskJocky Posted March 2, 2004 Share Posted March 2, 2004 Places that I have cached in South Western Pennsylvania has tons of "junked" cars out in the middle of the woods. Most of them are very close to party areas. You can bet that some are stolen, others where just beaten to death during a drunking evening and then just left. This weekend I ran across an old refridgerated box van about 2 miles back in the woods. There was no drive train on what was left of the truck, so you decided. Report them? I can only imagin how much it would cost to recover these things... Quote Link to comment
Curious George Posted March 3, 2004 Share Posted March 3, 2004 Check out my log from Jan 11, 2003 on this cache Quote Link to comment
+Team BlackZ Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 I found a cache hidden near an old car in the woods. How the car got there, who knows, nowhere near any road. I thought it was neat though. Quote Link to comment
+RJFerret Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 There's one near here with a tree growing through the engine compartment it's been there so long! However, it obviously was driven off the cliff above, more than 20 years ago when the road was still open (now a closed in a state park). Enjoy, Randy Quote Link to comment
McKenzie Clan Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 If only some of these were abandoned yellow jeeps... you could log 2 caches in one. Scott Quote Link to comment
+bigcall Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 See the logs from Dec 31 2002 and Jan 2003 for Sppok Night 64. Very strange. It was reported twice and probably sat there for at least another 3 weeks. I guess they finally got it out since no one mentions it in the logs after that. Quote Link to comment
+beatnik Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 Found this one out by a cache. The car wasn't there a month earlier when a previous cache 30 yards away from the car was archived. Quote Link to comment
+Baston Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 I found a chop shop dump area while searching for a cache in Mississauga, Ont. There were fenders and frames for 4 Hondas. Funny, no serial numbers to be found. (scratched off or the vin removed) This area is now being watched by the Peel police. Baston Quote Link to comment
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