A new low?

[zuma]

Cached with the Honeybunnies this weekend in Minnesota, and had a great time. But after the recent discussion on cache containers and strange placement, I just had to share that we found 2 caches in public parks where you had to lift up the trash container liner, to find the cache in the bottom of the exterior trash bin. Yuck!!!

The worse part about it was that Seth made me lift the bags of dog poo both times….

zuma

[Team Hemisphere Dancer]

Way to go Seth, Make Zuma do the dirty work.

[Team Honeybunnies]

Ralph’s completely right on these. We had a fantastic time caching cross-border, but these two caches were the real lowlight of the trip. This is NOT an innovative new hiding technique. It was unseemly and gross, even in the middle of winter. Imagine the pleasure of finding this cache in July 😯 . I would refer the hider of these to Cheesehead Dave’s tagline from Genius Loci: “Any fool can throw a stone down a well…”

[kbraband]

How about a posting links to the caches so we can check out the pages in case we want to put them on our ignore lists?

[Team Honeybunnies]

Linky…http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=1b633b85-bbb1-469a-92b8-9f32426fd332 and http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=21199927-000d-4fbb-adb3-e87594c09988.

As you can read, Ralph was quite a bit more honest than me, I’m sure my subtleties will be lost on the hider.

[zuma]

Reading the profile, ya can see both were placed by the same guy, a guy with jus 3 finds. Either a sock puppet, or more likely just a teenager without a clue.

While I dont think anyone, including gc.com, the WGA, or myself personally want to be the cache police, I do think it is useful to use peer pressure and honest feedback on the caches that we like so that we can see more like the ones we like.

The most honest log is the guy who just posted a note that he didnt need a smiley enough to dig in the garbage.

zuma

[Team Deejay]

Unless the caches are nearly invisible, I don’t see how these could last long. Sooner or later, a consciencious public works employee will think the cache was thrown in the garbage and somehow missed the bag. Like magic, the caches will disappear.

There are many trash can hides around SE Wisconsin (although USUALLY they are on the outside of the trash can.) I agree that these don’t shine a real positive light on geocaching and are might discourage first time finders from pursuing the sport. Our first find was a trash can hide, but fortunately we soldiered on to find much better hides in the area. The strange thing is that for everyone of these that we have found, there were other, less obnoxious, hiding places close by.

[Jay Mills]

hmmmm Could this type of location for a geocache be considered a biohazard? If so it would probably be locked by gc.com as inappropriate if it was pointed out to them the kind of crap you have to go through (pun intended). Just a thought.

Peace

[lagrac]

Zuma’s experience here describes my Minnesota problem to a T. People often ask me, “Hey Brett… you live in Minnesota, yet you cache in Wisconsin all the time, what’s up with that?” Well up till the point that I read Ralph’s caching story it could be summed up with two letters
KB
But now I seem to have another reason.

I’d also like to share a couple of my favourite KB lines if I may, and please allow my to paraphrase:

KB “….Well, how often are the coordinates right on anyways?”
(relating to my DNF of a Virt at the Earl Brown Herritage Center)

“…. I didn’t know that it was our job to encourage people to cache.”
(relating to his publishing of a cache listing with no description at all of that cache, just a blank page. (I must mention that after seeing that listing, I tried to submit it as COTM based of the ‘Great Amount of Planning and Effort’ that went into it. What ingenious camoflage, a cache made to look like garbage, why didn’t I ever think of that? 🙂

[kbraband]

@lagrac wrote:

Zuma’s experience here describes my Minnesota problem to a T. People often ask me, “Hey Brett… you live in Minnesota, yet you cache in Wisconsin all the time, what’s up with that?” Well up till the point that I read Ralph’s caching story it could be summed up with two letters
KB
But now I seem to have another reason.

I’d also like to share a couple of my favourite KB lines if I may, and please allow my to paraphrase:

KB “….Well, how often are the coordinates right on anyways?”
(relating to my DNF of a Virt at the Earl Brown Herritage Center)

“…. I didn’t know that it was our job to encourage people to cache.”
(relating to his publishing of a cache listing with no description at all of that cache, just a blank page. (I must mention that after seeing that listing, I tried to submit it as COTM based of the ‘Great Amount of Planning and Effort’ that went into it. What ingenious camoflage, a cache made to look like garbage, why didn’t I ever think of that? 🙂

I’d just like to clarify that I think I know who you mean by KB… and it’s not me! 🙂

[lagrac]

The similarity is in the initials only, unless you are the one that planted that cache between Wabasha and Hayfield in that community dump next to the rotting deer carcass? 🙂

[Thraxman]

Hmmm.

This topic is making me re-think my next cache. I was planning on it being a round, pink container, roughly the size of a hockey puck. The idea was to hide it indoors. In the restroom, actually, at the bottom of… oh, never mind. If reaching into a trash can is an issue with some of you, my urinal caches would probably not go over well.

-Thraxman

[Mathman]

Hey Thraxman I am sure if you did your urinal cache, Seth and Zuma would be there and probably be FTF. 😆

[kent1915]

I dunno, a micro (hey! Its waterproof!) installed in what looks like a urinal cake??? Right under a sticker that says “Don’t eat the big white mint!”

[Pto]

@lagrac wrote:

Zuma’s experience here describes my Minnesota problem to a T. People often ask me, “Hey Brett… you live in Minnesota, yet you cache in Wisconsin all the time, what’s up with that?” Well up till the point that I read Ralph’s caching story it could be summed up with two letters
KB
But now I seem to have another reason.

I’d also like to share a couple of my favourite KB lines if I may, and please allow my to paraphrase:

KB “….Well, how often are the coordinates right on anyways?”
(relating to my DNF of a Virt at the Earl Brown Herritage Center)

“…. I didn’t know that it was our job to encourage people to cache.”
(relating to his publishing of a cache listing with no description at all of that cache, just a blank page. (I must mention that after seeing that listing, I tried to submit it as COTM based of the ‘Great Amount of Planning and Effort’ that went into it. What ingenious camoflage, a cache made to look like garbage, why didn’t I ever think of that? 🙂

X2
Wow, thats funny- we are in very similar situations.
He’s now moved into NW Wi, so . . . . . 😯

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