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11/06/2007 at 5:12 am #1725678
Considering doing an event to inform local cachers on the dangers of stumbling across Meth Labs while caching, but want to find out first if anybody has run into what they suspected to be a Meth Lab anywhere in Wisconsin.
Meth Labs are unique dangers with the potential to present toxic chemicals, booby traps and violent subjects. It’s not something we talk about much but they are out there and if you happen to be caching with children and they pick up something they believe to be a cache but is actually part of and active or old Lab, the consequences are severe.
If you’ve seen anything like spent propane talks, lithium battery wrappers, Ephedrine bottles, soda containers with white residue or liquids of the smell of cat urine, you may have stumbled on a lab.
I’d be interested in knowing what and where you found anything like this. Post it here or e-mail me. Thanks!
11/06/2007 at 1:26 pm #1880951I have not knowing stumbled across any. I mean, if I did, I didn’t know what it was.
11/06/2007 at 1:39 pm #1880952Seth and I ran into what looked to be a meth lab out in the middle of nowhere in a Minnesota State Forest. We had wandered a bit away from the actual cache, thinking to bush to the next one, when we came across a cooking area, covered with a blue tarp, and lots of empty cans of turpentine laying about. It was situated 150 feet or so off the gravel road, accessible by a 4WD drive truck, which would be out of few of the dead end forest road, an ideal spot for a meth lab.
I am still not sure that it was in fact a meth lab, but the set up was pretty fishy. See GCYTHJ for details.
zuma
11/06/2007 at 11:04 pm #1880953Never seen a meth lab..but a cacher found a crack-pipe while caching at our event this weekend.. 😕
11/06/2007 at 11:29 pm #1880954I think this is a great idea, I’ve thankfully never ran across one but after reading a article posted on the net last year I hope I never do.
11/07/2007 at 2:37 am #1880955I’ve found a pot pipe doing a cache in a Ashwaubeon park.
As far as meth people be aware very aware.. Methheads are very parniod and often Armed. If you see anything that looks fishy mark the spot don’t approch the area and get the heck out of there and notify the authorities.
Btw this is one of the many reason I don’t cache in the wilderness without a side arm the other is Wolves…
11/07/2007 at 2:51 am #1880956I also found an aluminum foil pipe once too. I didn’t want to CITO it for fear of possession.
11/07/2007 at 10:31 am #1880957I found and trashed out a bowl I found in an Appleton park.
11/07/2007 at 6:10 pm #1880958Also found an aluminum foil pipe in an urban park in West Bend. I CITO’d a few aluminum can smoking devices from parks in the Racine/Kenosha area and I’ve run off at least two groups of teens/kids smoking pot in the Racine/Kenosha area. I’ve also stumbled into a pot growing operation and its “gardener” in a section of woods directly behind the MPS Administration building.
I hope I never run across a meth lab. Way too much money involved, and the danger threat to the unfortunate cacher is off the chart.
If something doesn’t look or feel right, just play dumb, turn around and walk away. I wouldn’t bother marking the coords and I would actually conceal my GPSr. I’ve got tracks enabled and I can obtain coords from the tracks after I’ve made my retreat.
11/07/2007 at 6:33 pm #1880959@3 Hawks wrote:
I wouldn’t bother marking the coords and I would actually conceal my GPSr. I’ve got tracks enabled and I can obtain coords from the tracks after I’ve made my retreat.
Good point….if you are seen with a GPS you are in trouble if you are seen marking the labs coords I’m thinking your trouble index just went through the roof….you may be better off getting it out of sight as quickly as possible and perhaps marking your coords if needed in your pocket and out of view….granted if confronted and the marked coords are found….I think this is where a +3 cloak of invisibility would be in order.
11/07/2007 at 11:56 pm #1880960Good to see that so far no one has run across what might be a Meth lab in Wisconsin while geocaching. The danger is still there, however.
I am going to see if I can get information on found locations of Labs and compare that with placed caches (if I am able) to see if there were any close to existing caches.
I echo the sentiments about making any efforts to do anything but get the hell out of the area if you come across one. Forget marking. You’ll remember about where you were, close enough to report its general location. Let the authorities do the rest.
Keep the reports coming though. This information is valuable.
11/08/2007 at 3:54 am #1880961@Lostby7 wrote:
@3 Hawks wrote:
I wouldn’t bother marking the coords and I would actually conceal my GPSr. I’ve got tracks enabled and I can obtain coords from the tracks after I’ve made my retreat.
Good point….if you are seen with a GPS you are in trouble if you are seen marking the labs coords I’m thinking your trouble index just went through the roof….you may be better off getting it out of sight as quickly as possible and perhaps marking your coords if needed in your pocket and out of view….granted if confronted and the marked coords are found….I think this is where a +3 cloak of invisibility would be in order.
The cloak and a minor globe of invulnerability would do the trick or you could poly-morph into a minor woodland creature unless you are up against someone with an incredibly high intelligence or a dispel magic spell handy. 😯 😯 WOW!! Where did that come from???
11/08/2007 at 3:58 am #1880962@3 Hawks wrote:
@Lostby7 wrote:
@3 Hawks wrote:
I wouldn’t bother marking the coords and I would actually conceal my GPSr. I’ve got tracks enabled and I can obtain coords from the tracks after I’ve made my retreat.
Good point….if you are seen with a GPS you are in trouble if you are seen marking the labs coords I’m thinking your trouble index just went through the roof….you may be better off getting it out of sight as quickly as possible and perhaps marking your coords if needed in your pocket and out of view….granted if confronted and the marked coords are found….I think this is where a +3 cloak of invisibility would be in order.
The cloak and a minor globe of invulnerability would do the trick or you could poly-morph into a minor woodland creature unless you are up against someone with an incredibly high intelligence or a dispel magic spell handy. 😯 😯 WOW!! Where did that come from???
Gosh I thought I was the only one that thought like that. I had it supressed for many years and now its out again.
11/08/2007 at 4:14 am #1880963@Team Hemisphere Dancer wrote:
@3 Hawks wrote:
@Lostby7 wrote:
@3 Hawks wrote:
I wouldn’t bother marking the coords and I would actually conceal my GPSr. I’ve got tracks enabled and I can obtain coords from the tracks after I’ve made my retreat.
Good point….if you are seen with a GPS you are in trouble if you are seen marking the labs coords I’m thinking your trouble index just went through the roof….you may be better off getting it out of sight as quickly as possible and perhaps marking your coords if needed in your pocket and out of view….granted if confronted and the marked coords are found….I think this is where a +3 cloak of invisibility would be in order.
The cloak and a minor globe of invulnerability would do the trick or you could poly-morph into a minor woodland creature unless you are up against someone with an incredibly high intelligence or a dispel magic spell handy. 😯 😯 WOW!! Where did that come from???
Gosh I thought I was the only one that thought like that. I had it supressed for many years and now its out again.
Once a geek, always a geek. Don’t suppress that which you are. Embrace the geekness and remember that geek is the modern chic.
11/08/2007 at 5:04 am #1880964I’ve never come across anything suspicious-looking like zuma, but I do carry a vial of +1 pepper spray in my Bag of Holding just in case.
Gamers – geesh! 🙄 I have to live with them every day. Thought I was safe from them here. 😉
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