Lost And Found

[Ducky2 & Woburn]

Found a man's watch while caching. Wondering if anyone lost a watch in Iowa.

Please post if you have so I can contact you to see if it might be yours.

Ducky2

[+New England n00b]

I found something at a cache once, and I emailed teh cache owner and teh last three noters/finders. It worked.

[+Joypa]

I found an empty cache in the mud near where it was supposed to be. I picked it up, took it home and emailed the owner. Never heard back. I still have it. Is this the right protocol?

[kayaker22589]

Not good protocol. You should have left it and posted a note or emailed the owner to tell him it is empty and in the mud.

[+SixDogTeam]

if it's a Rolex, it's mine.

[umc]

I found somebodies dog at a cache once. Good thing I had some rope in my pack so that I could leash him up and take him to the DNR, They've seen that dog before as I guess he gets out often and roams the park.

[+Joypa]

Not good protocol. You should have left it and posted a note or emailed the owner to tell him it is empty and in the mud.

Shoot. I guess I'll take it back, throw it back in the mud and leave a note in it. Doesn't this guy ever check his email?

[+Mudfrog]

Found a man's watch while caching. Wondering if anyone lost a watch in Iowa.

Please post if you have so I can contact you to see if it might be yours.

Ducky2

Gosh, i was sure hoping you were in Texas and had found my GPSMAP 76s!

[+Brian - Team A.I.]

That thing is so large, I'm surprised you *could* lose it.

[+JMBella]

Not good protocol.  You should have left it and posted a note or emailed the owner to tell him  it is empty and in the mud.

Shoot. I guess I'll take it back, throw it back in the mud and leave a note in it. Doesn't this guy ever check his email?

Actually, what you did isn't terrible as long as you leave a note on the cache page so others know it's gone. The best thing you could do in that situation however, (assuming the contain is still in good condition) is to put a new logbook in it and maybe even some new swag and re-hide it. Just leaving laying there in the mud would have been bad form.

 

Ducky2,

A large majority of cachers don't read this forum. If you haven't already done so, post a note to the cache page. Also you should post this topic in your regional forum.

Edited August 17, 2004 by JMBella

[+AJ of Dunbar]

I found a 10k gold fraturnity ring from a local college along the local pipeline a few months ago on my way to hide a micro.

[The Magical Misfits]

I found a box that had all sorts of little trinkets in it, it had camo-tape all over it too...it blended in really well with it's surroundings so it's no wonder the owner lost it. What's really strange though is that since I found the lost box, nobody has found the cache.. huh, go figure..

[+briansnat]

Not good protocol.  You should have left it and posted a note or emailed the owner to tell him  it is empty and in the mud.

Shoot. I guess I'll take it back, throw it back in the mud and leave a note in it. Doesn't this guy ever check his email?

Nothing wrong with that. An empty container laying in the mud? I'm sure you did the cache owner a favor. Look at it this way, hHe needs to make a trip out there to replace it, or retreive it before archiving it. If he wants to do the latter, you saved him the trip out there. If he wants to replace it, you can just mail him the container, or drop it off for him.

 

A local geocacher did the very same thing for me last week. Found an empty container, took it home and e-mailed me. He saved me the trip out there if I had decided to archive it. I wound up replacing it, but his taking the container didn't make things any harder on me. I thanked him.

 

As long as you mentioned that the cache is gone in your log, you're fine

[+Joypa]

Not good protocol.  You should have left it and posted a note or emailed the owner to tell him  it is empty and in the mud.

Shoot. I guess I'll take it back, throw it back in the mud and leave a note in it. Doesn't this guy ever check his email?

Nothing wrong with that. An empty container laying in the mud? I'm sure you did the cache owner a favor. Look at it this way, hHe needs to make a trip out there to replace it, or retreive it before archiving it. If he wants to do the latter, you saved him the trip out there. If he wants to replace it, you can just mail him the container, or drop it off for him.

 

A local geocacher did the very same thing for me last week. Found an empty container, took it home and e-mailed me. He saved me the trip out there if I had decided to archive it. I wound up replacing it, but his taking the container didn't make things any harder on me. I thanked him.

 

As long as you mentioned that the cache is gone in your log, you're fine

I'm glad somebody thinks I did the right thing. I went back and checked. I can't be 100% sure but I think the cache was abandoned. Lots of Purdue students leave after the semester, loose their email account and are never heard from again. That's a new topic---abandoned caches.