Any Ideas About What I Found While Caching?

3.5k · March 5, 2005

I won't post the pictures here...not that they were that good anyway, but they were a little..umm...ooogie.

What's your best guess?

Bret

March 5, 2005

this is kind of grose but maybe the subway kid found out that subway was getting a health inspection had to get rid of the bad meat real fast before the health department came.

March 5, 2005

If it wasn't in a cemetary, my guess would be similar to your conclusions about poisoning pest animals or something.

Given it's in a cemetary...and given its position (assuming you didn't move it)...I'm thinking it's some kind of prank.

March 5, 2005

Or some weird/bizarre voodoo ritual?

March 5, 2005

That's a little better than we did this past weekend. I was out with ellehciM and CJB4589 and we found a cache full of urine and feces. Talk about trading down.

March 5, 2005

That's a little better than we did this past weekend. I was out with ellehciM and CJB4589 and we found a cache full of urine and feces. Talk about trading down.

Sheesh! Remind me where you live again, so I can avoid caching there...

11.3k · March 5, 2005

That's a little better than we did this past weekend. I was out with ellehciM and CJB4589 and we found a cache full of urine and feces. Talk about trading down.

Eeeeeuuuuuuwwwwww! That's gross!!

March 5, 2005

I would guess that one of the Zombies easing around the night before had some body parts fall off.

3k · March 5, 2005

Up here in New England, it's quite common for caretakers to leave clothing stuffed with spoiled meat near the cemetery gates. Traditionally, when a caretaker sees a visitor come into the cemetery, he'll take an old shoe or a hat, fill it with rotting meat, and quietly place the item near the gate as a gift for the visitor to find and take home.

It's considered quite rude to not take the item with you when you leave the cemetery. To do so means that you reject their gift. I wouldn't venture back there - I doubt if you'll be welcome.

22k · March 5, 2005

Team Snoopy would know.

22k · March 5, 2005

It's considered quite rude to not take the item with you when you leave the cemetery.

Tell me, what happens to you if you don't take it? If I couldn't guess.

3k · March 5, 2005

It's considered quite rude to not take the item with you when you leave the cemetery.

Tell me, what happens to you if you don't take it? If I couldn't guess.

Where do you think they get the rotting meat?

March 5, 2005

Traditionally, when a caretaker sees a visitor come into the cemetery, he'll take an old shoe or a hat, fill it with rotting meat, and quietly place the item near the gate as a gift for the visitor to find and take home.

It's considered quite rude to not take the item with you when you leave the cemetery.

Quaint New England customs - aren't they special!

That being said - you've got me curious - my guess is poisoned bait for big black crows that like to visit such places.

Please, call and find out for us. The suspense is killing me!

Now, back to my sausage and green pepper sub!

9.4k · March 5, 2005

Maybe it's the next Stinky Meat project

March 5, 2005

Maybe it's the next Stinky Meat project

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm,

I think the Stinky Meat projects would, at best, be considered temporary caches and therefore would not be approved by our wonderful approvers.

However, there are those other sites where you can post other types of caches....

Not that I would....

Would I?

Sorry.

(Thanks for the giggles for Big Boy Marauder and Momma)

2.6k · March 5, 2005

Every year at Christmas, my boss used to fill a rubber glove with Cheez Whiz.

That doesn't really have anything to do with your find, you just woke up a brain cell. A rubber glove full of Cheez Whiz is...oddly compelling to the touch.

March 5, 2005

I was just thinking something like this would make a very interesting topic. the wort/grosest thing you ever found in a cache.

22k · March 5, 2005

I was just thinking something like this would make a very interesting topic. the wort/grosest thing you ever found in a cache.

It's covered, check the 'The Unusual Forum'.

Edit: Sorry, I just realized that would include nearly every forum here. Check 'The Hunt/The Unusual' forum under Geocaching Adventures

Edited March 5, 2005 by BlueDeuce

2.5k · March 5, 2005

Up here in New England, it's quite common for caretakers to leave clothing stuffed with spoiled meat near the cemetery gates. Traditionally, when a caretaker sees a visitor come into the cemetery, he'll take an old shoe or a hat, fill it with rotting meat, and quietly place the item near the gate as a gift for the visitor to find and take home.

It's considered quite rude to not take the item with you when you leave the cemetery. To do so means that you reject their gift. I wouldn't venture back there - I doubt if you'll be welcome.

The sad thing is that I was halfway through that first paragraph before I realized you were being a dork.

I think that one of the zombies from the cemetary tried to escape and somebody chopped off it's hand (or it simply fell off) and thus, we're looking at a dead person's hand sitting there.

7.2k · March 5, 2005

So *that's* where I left that. Thanks, I'll go back for it tomorrow.

March 5, 2005

That's a little better than we did this past weekend. I was out with ellehciM and CJB4589 and we found a cache full of urine and feces. Talk about trading down.

Since you were in my neck of the woods last weekend, if you don't want to post the name of the cache, will you email it to me? I hope it wasn't one of mine!!

March 5, 2005

Remember Thing from the Addams Family.... is he missing?

Thing

Edited March 5, 2005 by GeoSharks

3.8k · March 5, 2005

Bret, maybe you should call the police, have it checked for DNA. Maybe it's really someone's rotting hand. Did you check closely to see if there is a Geocacher University class ring on one of the fingers? :huh:

Edited March 5, 2005 by sept1c_tank

1k · March 5, 2005

It's just a kid's stupid prank--an icky, rotting hand on a cemetery gate.

March 5, 2005

If you don't like my trade items just pitch them...Don't embarras me here in front of everyone. :blink: :mad: :huh:

3.8k · March 5, 2005

the real question is, what did it taste like? my guess is chicken but i could be wrong.

6.5k · March 5, 2005

I think it's a missing Telepathic Meat Glove. :blink:

These special gloves made of meat will help any meat cyborg communicate with other creatures, including humans. The weird hybrid of muscle fused with neurological capabilites allows the person who wears the gloves to possess improved dexterity as well as the transmittal of thought patterns. The organo-technology used to create this tissue is still experimental. :mad:

1.6k · March 5, 2005

Going along with everyone else, I have to say it's just a childish prank.

Going by the placement, and the actual item, you'd have to realize how creeped out you'd be at night, if you were walking through and you found that. My guess is that a guy wanted to scare his girlfriend by walking her through the cemetary, and he decided to leave a couple props to make the walk a bit scarier...

March 24, 2005

Up here in New England, it's quite common for caretakers to leave clothing stuffed with spoiled meat near the cemetery gates. Traditionally, when a caretaker sees a visitor come into the cemetery, he'll take an old shoe or a hat, fill it with rotting meat, and quietly place the item near the gate as a gift for the visitor to find and take home.

It's considered quite rude to not take the item with you when you leave the cemetery. To do so means that you reject their gift. I wouldn't venture back there - I doubt if you'll be welcome.

The caretakers keep a ready supply of rotting meat? :anibad: Sounds a little too much like something from a Jason movie to me...

1.3k · March 24, 2005

If you don't like my trade items just pitch them...Don't embarras me here in front of everyone.

:anibad:

1.8k · March 24, 2005

It's just a kid's stupid prank--an icky, rotting hand on a cemetery gate.

Yep, I would vote for that. Someone was making sausauge (using the rubber gloves) and decided it would be funny to fill the gloves with sausauge meat and leave one at the local cemetary. It's a pretty good prank if you ask me ...

March 24, 2005

Team Snoopy would know.

Ha, very funny! :anibad: We're going back to that cache next month...hopefully we'll find the cache this time and not need the police! Plus atleast this guy had his neatly in the glove, he got lucky!

Edited March 24, 2005 by Team Snoopy

24.7k · March 24, 2005

It's just a kid's stupid prank--an icky, rotting hand on a cemetery gate.

Yep, I would vote for that. Someone was making sausauge (using the rubber gloves) and decided it would be funny to fill the gloves with sausauge meat and leave one at the local cemetary. It's a pretty good prank if you ask me ...

You know, this has real potential at a CITO we are going to be doing here... I could even leave an IGO coin under it for the brave soul who picks it up to dispose of it... Hmmm...

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