Ever been fingerprinted by police for caching? Oh Lucky me.

[peach107]

I decided I was going to try the Door County Challenge GCGE6B today. I started off hiking down the road and then cut into the woods bushwhacking. I didn’t get 75 feet in and i see something metal hidden under bark and leaves. Now I’m thinking to myself…….Did I just stumble upon the final……an ammo can? Wow that was a quick easy find. I start taking the brush off this container and i see that it is huge. This has to be the biggest ammo can i have ever seen. It’s about 2x2x3 foot. So now i start looking for the handle to open it. All I can find is a tumbler. A tumbler? The only thing i know of having a tumbler, is a safe. Now what is a safe doing hidden in the woods. Looks like a case for CSI. I replaced everything as i found it and called police. A couple uniforms showed up and the detectives were on their way. Found out later that the viking grills owner had been robbed and his safe stolen 2 weeks ago. So now I have to go to Sturgeon Bay and have my prints taken to eliminate me as a suspect since i touched it before knowing what it was. 4 hours with the police sure cuts into ones Geo time. All in all, it was a very interesting day. Funny some of the things you find in the woods. Another thing to add to my list. usually they’re stopping me when I’m geocaching. today was different.

[cheezehead]

Now that’s kind of funny! But not that you lost you geo-time.
Could also be a kewl idea for a cache thou? No???

[sandlanders]

Kind of the reverse of the usual: a NON-geocacher calling the police to check out a suspicious container that IS a geocache.

[JimandLinda]

But how many caches did you find? 😉

[gotta run]

We just got that log since that’s on our watch list.

Amazing! So I’m assuming the safe was “uncracked?”

By the way, since you’re so good at finding things in the woods, Mrs. Gotta Run is looking for her watch that she lost at that cache last year!

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[Decrepit]

That would make an interesting TB!

[peach107]

@gotta run wrote:

Amazing! So I’m assuming the safe was “uncracked?”

From what I could see, it looked as though it was never cracked. So did the hoods give up and just dump it, or were they waiting for it cool down before going back for it?

[peach107]

I’d post pictures if I knew how.

[peach107]

I gave it a 2 on difficulty and a 2 on terrain. Rookies.

[gotta run]

@peach107 wrote:

I’d post pictures if I knew how.

http://wi-geocaching.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=4334

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[peach107]

[gotta run]

Wow…great camo…”Found safe lying in the open. Rehid better than found.”

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[bartrod]

Gotta Run is right…from the pictures, it’s apparent the thieves would not have made very good cachers. Did you stick a smiley on it though 😀

Oconto...the birthplace of western civilization:)

[furfool]

Looking at the bottom of it, it doesn’t look like a very good one. It looks a bit cheap.

Peach, I would be on the straight and narrow from now on. Big Brother has your prints now, regardless of what they say. Of course, for all I know, you may have given them up already. They have you on their grid now.

[CodeJunkie]

This is hilarious (kind of). I had a similar, but not quite as involved on my 11th cache with WeathernowCast. Fox Proposal Point (GCR06T) was the cache we went after for WNC’s #1900. On the way home we got stopped for suspision of arson for the marsh fire just down the road. Look up the cache and read the logs for the whole story.

I’m actually planning to celebrate my by placing a cache at the point of the police stop where we had to explain to our officer what geocaching was.

Glad to hear I’m not the only one.

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