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@TyeDyeSkyGuy wrote:
Why not just anchor a small buoy?
That wont fly. Buoys are either navigational markers or anchoring a boat. For any other purpose you have to get DNR and permission from the land owners in the area. I know of a group that was trying to put out some ski buoys for a slalom course and they ran into nothing but problems. After a year of trying they finally gave up.
Not to pile on, but the root of the problem might not even be desctructive muggles rather bad cachers who left the container exposed. We heard about a cache last weekend where the container was left out in the open on the trail after it was found. And as cache owners we have seen first hand how some have a hard time replacing the cache as they found it.
A fellow bought a new sports car and was out on the interstate for a nice evening drive. The road was clear and he decided to open her up.
As the needle jumped up to 80 mph, he suddenly saw flashing red and blue lights behind him.
“There’s no way they can catch this car!!,” he thought to himself and opened her up further. The needle hit 90, 100….
Then the reality of the situation hit him. “What the heck am I doing?” he thought and pulled over.
The cop came up to him, took his license without a word and examined it and the car. It’s been a long day, this is the end of my shift and it’s Friday the 13th. I don’t feel like more paperwork, so if you can give me an excuse for your driving that I haven’t heard before, you can go.” The guy thinks for a second and says, “Last week my wife ran off with a cop. I was afraid you were trying to give her back.”
“Have a nice weekend,” said the officer.
A blonde was weed-eating her yard and accidentally cut off the tail of her cat which was hiding in the grass.
She rushed her cat, along with the tail, over to WAL-MART!
Why WAL-MART??
HELLOOOOOOOOO!
WAL-MART is the largest re-tailer in the world!!!
@koolma_k wrote:
Shortly thereafter an announcement comes over the PA system,
“Attention standby passengers we now have a seat available on flight
number…”That is too funny, but true!
On the outskirts of a small town, there was a big, old pecan tree just inside the cemetery fence. One day, two boys filled up a bucketful of nuts and sat down by the tree, out of sight, and began dividing the nuts.
‘One for you, one for me One for you, one for me,’ said one boy. Several dropped and rolled down toward the fence.
Another boy came riding along the road on his bicycle. As he passed, he thought he heard voices from inside the cemetery. He slowed down to investigate. Sure enough, he heard, ‘One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me.’
He just knew what it was. He jumped back on his bike and rode off. Just around the bend he met an old man with a cane, hobbling along.
‘Come here quick,’ said the boy, ‘you won’t believe what I heard! Satan and the Lord are down at the cemetery dividing up the souls.’
The man said, ‘Beat it kid, can’t you see it’s hard for me to walk.’ When the boy insisted though, the man hobbled slowly to the cemetery.
Standing by the fence they heard , ‘One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me.’
The old man whispered, ‘Boy, you’ve been tellin’ me the truth. Let’s see if we can see the Lord.’
Shaking with fear, they peered through the fence, yet were still unable to see anything. The old man and the boy gripped the wrought iron bars of the fence tighter and tighter as they tried to get a glimpse of the Lord.
At last they heard, ‘One for you, one for me. That’s all. Now let’s go get those nuts by the fence and we’ll be done.’
They say the old man made it back to town a full 5 minutes ahead of the kid on the bike.
@amita17 wrote:
SammyClaws, this happens to me as well. If I don’t have time to read each of the forums, and I log off, when I log back on, I have to remember what I haven’t read. I tried it again to see if it was true all the time. Lots of new posts today, but I logged off right after reading this forum, and logged back on. All the forums were then white, not colored in like when they have the new posts. Even though I hadn’t read them, it changes color as if I did. I just figured that’s the way it is.
Thanks, I am glad I am not the only one that is having this happen. I thought I was going crazy.
Not that I know of. Looks like I will be doing some digging tonite.
@Lander & Lancelot wrote:
What about if the cache is frozen solid in the hiding place? We have come across this a few times while winter caching and have generally not claimed while other winter cachers tell us they do claim them and simply state it was frozen in place. Should the find be credited or deleted? It would help us to know for future reference. I’m sure many have this question.
Email the owner, explain the situation and ask permission to claim the find.
@Team Deejay wrote:
I don’t understand. The only ways to make a forum thread appear “read” are to either open the thread or hit the “mark all topics as read” link. If you don’t open the topic, it will stay unread. Note that this doesn’t consider pages, so if you don’t finish reading a topic, it will still indicate that it is read.
It appears on my system that if I got to the forums, read one thread, then leave the site, all the rest of the threads are marked as read. Apparently, my computer is special in this way.
@seldom|seen wrote:
@SammyClaws wrote:
Is there some setting I can turn off or on to keep the unread forum posts from being marked read when I leave the forums?
The power button on your CPU…
Nope, that doesnt work either …. 😛
Just weighing in on the topic on this topic since we just had a similar experience. As a finder, we worked through a multi and got to the final location. The area was flooded but we managed to fish the container out of the water but for the life of us, we couldnt open it. It was all slimy, muddy and algae covered. Short of coming back with some monkey wrenches the top wouldn budge. We emailed the owner explained the situation and asked if we could log it as a find, even though we could not sign the log.
We have done this with other caches that are either frozen in place or in one case the ammo box was covered in ice. In all cases so far, we have explained the situation and the owners have given us the nod.
On the other hand as a hider, we have seen logs that indicate the finder did not sign the log. This would upset me that they claimed the find but didnt explain why they couldnt sign the log. Finally, I decided, if that is how they want to play the game, its their prerogative. If they can live with themselves knowing they didnt sign, what does it affect me? It might change my opinion of a cacher, but I have not asked anyone to delete their log.
The one exception to my statement above was one cacher did claim a find, then wrote me a nasty note for putting a cache so far up a tree that he didnt feel comfortable climbing (he was a noob and was quite upset about a number of things about the cache). I tried to nicely point out that the point of a level 4 terrain was to climb the tree and I did not consider it a find. He deleted his log.
I would guess you could get it done in about a half hour.
We took much longer. There were 4 of us fumbling around, the dogs hopped out at one point, we checked out the grumpy troll bar, the chocolate shop, and chamber of commerce. It was the Keystone cops.
If I remember the order correctly, drive to #2, pull up a bit then walk for #3,4 & 5, drive to 6 and drive to 7 or something close to that. And the cartridge ran flawlessly. Better than even the demo cartridge. You can tell a lot of time went into the programming. It even has pictures.
Congrats on the 1K milestone. The next 1000 gets easier for sure. Good choice of caches too – 8)
Good Job, thats a fun cache and a head scratcher. So did you pull the arm off too?
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