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Fan Life => The Endzone Dive => Topic started by: jeffy on January 29, 2009, 05:18:43 PM
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It was at the Solomon rest area. If you don't know what geocaching is, hit the back button on your browser.
The note from the mod said....
The cache died today, the KHP Special Response Team blew it up. It was apparently found by a non-geocacher and reported to the Highway Patrol. They X-rayed the container and did not see anything hazardous inside, they blew it up anyway.... If you decide to submit another here, be sure to clearly mark the container and maybe we should use something clear for this one.
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LOL, g'job
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I guess I shouldn't have labeled it IED, huh?
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Awesome.
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I hit the back button on my browser and I still don't know what geocaches are?
:dunno:
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Google
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Google
As in Let me google that for you, cire (http://www.letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=geocaching)
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Google
As in Let me google that for you, cire (http://www.letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=geocaching)
:fatty:
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I suddenly have the desire to find one of these things and take a huge crap in it.
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I suddenly have the desire to find one of these things and take a huge crap in it.
Now THAT would be an original idea! There are 750000 active caches in the world and likely that many have been archived. I'm sure you would be the first person to think of such an idea! Go for it!
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I suddenly have the desire to find one of these things and take a huge crap in it.
Now THAT would be an original idea! There are 750000 active caches in the world and likely that many have been archived. I'm sure you would be the first person to think of such an idea! Go for it!
Now I really have to do it. Anyone know where I can locate a geotoilet?
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I suddenly have the desire to find one of these things and take a huge crap in it.
Now THAT would be an original idea! There are 750000 active caches in the world and likely that many have been archived. I'm sure you would be the first person to think of such an idea! Go for it!
Now I really have to do it. Anyone know where I can locate a geotoilet?
N 34° 08.767 E 071° 04.026
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I suddenly have the desire to find one of these things and take a huge crap in it.
Now THAT would be an original idea! There are 750000 active caches in the world and likely that many have been archived. I'm sure you would be the first person to think of such an idea! Go for it!
Now I really have to do it. Anyone know where I can locate a geotoilet?
N 34° 08.767 E 071° 04.026
In english bro, ENGLISH!
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I've thought about doing this - what kind of GPS do you use?
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I use a garmin 60csx.
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I've thought about doing this - what kind of GPS do you use?
Garmin 60csx's run about $400, but you can get one that costs half that or less and do just fine. I used one of those little blue Legends until about a month ago and I found a ton just fine. You could probably do it with a Nuvi, too, but they would certainly have their limitations.
The sport/hobby/game is a lot of fun and can be very addicting. And there's enough in the area to keep you busy for awhile. There's over 100 in or within ~15 miles of Topeka. Seen a lot of neat places and out of the way areas that usually only locals are privy to because of it.
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I use a garmin 60csx.
Bet I could "acquire" one from somewhere around here...
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A few of us found one on top of Mt. Evans this last summer. We didn't really understand it, but taking a crap in it was an idea (which we didn't do).
Instead we kinda sorta started our own geocache and didn't list it...aka, we left something near the mountain that someone will find some day and scratch their head.
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(which we didn't do).
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The same one that jeffy had blown up got dumped in sometime in December. They also managed to write "poop" on all the pages in the "log" book. Coincidentally, that cache is at a rest area.
I found one in a rural area in JoCo awhile back that the previous finder had found a brownie in. I was the one who was finally brave enough a year later to go find it again, still with the roll of TP that the guy who found the brownie had left in it in case the brown bandit came back.
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(which we didn't do).
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hey, do you realize how difficult it is to just breathe at 14k feet? I wasn't about to bend over at the waist.. I may not of been able to get back up without rolling down the side of the mountain.
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Thanks for leaving your litter in our state.
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It was at the Solomon rest area. If you don't know what geocaching is, hit the back button on your browser.
The note from the mod said....
The cache died today, the KHP Special Response Team blew it up. It was apparently found by a non-geocacher and reported to the Highway Patrol. They X-rayed the container and did not see anything hazardous inside, they blew it up anyway.... If you decide to submit another here, be sure to clearly mark the container and maybe we should use something clear for this one.
Thats hilarious. Always wanted to give geocaching a try but have never actually done it.
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Got an email today through the geocaching website. It seems one of the troopers involved signed up for an account and emailed me about the cache:
I would like to contact you about a hide you had placed at the Solomon rest area. I work for the Kansas Highway Patrol bomb squad. I have your find, and would like to ask you a few questions about it. Pleas contact me as soon as you can.
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Got an email today through the geocaching website. It seems one of the troopers involved signed up for an account and emailed me about the cache:
I would like to contact you about a hide you had placed at the Solomon rest area. I work for the Kansas Highway Patrol bomb squad. I have your find, and would like to ask you a few questions about it. Pleas contact me as soon as you can.
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lol getting questioned by the coppers is a &@#%ing blast, man!
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If I were you jeffy, I'd stay the &@#% away from that cop. Just pretend you didn't get his message or something.
Nothing good can come from you responding.
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If I were you jeffy, I'd stay the frack away from that cop. Just pretend you didn't get his message or something.
Nothing good can come from you responding.
Except educating him so a similar occurence doesn't happen in the future.
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If you want to get in cheap, contact a Garmin distributor and tell them you want a GPS V refurb, they're selling for around $170 w/ the mapsource PC software ($100 addition to cost w/ most new units), 12v adapter, PC cable, and car dash mount, plus a certificate for one free upgrade on the S/W. If you wait to register the unit until you are ready for the S/W update you can upgrade to the latest version out. If you have a laptop you can interface with it while driving for location, the on-unit screen is B/W and not very big, but useable. hth
I wouldn't contact the cop, he sounds like a gay geocache stalker.
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If I were you jeffy, I'd stay the frack away from that cop. Just pretend you didn't get his message or something.
Nothing good can come from you responding.
I've already contacted him, but he hasn't returned my call. When I meet him, I'm going to do this: :nutkick: and then I'm going to do this: :bitchslap: and then I'm going to go home and do this: :drink: before I have to do this: :jail:
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Sounds like it was found by KDOT, ironically some of the same people I used to work with.
The trooper was an ass.
I may get billed for the bomb squad.
I'm thinking of calling the newspaper so at least I can get my 5 minutes of American Idol fame out of this.
As Achmed the Dead Terrorist (Jeff Dunham) says, "Silence! I kill you!"
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Sounds like it was found by KDOT, ironically some of the same people I used to work with.
The trooper was an ass.
I may get billed for the bomb squad.
I'm thinking of calling the newspaper so at least I can get my 5 minutes of American Idol fame out of this.
As Achmed the Dead Terrorist (Jeff Dunham) says, "Silence! I kill you!"
Should not have contacted him. You seem suprised a cop was an ass :dunno:
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Why would you get billed? Did the box say "Warning: Bomb Inside!! Allah al Akbar!!" The state doesn't need to bill you for their own paranoia.
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Sounds like it was found by KDOT, ironically some of the same people I used to work with.
The trooper was an ass.
I may get billed for the bomb squad.
I'm thinking of calling the newspaper so at least I can get my 5 minutes of American Idol fame out of this.
As Achmed the Dead Terrorist (Jeff Dunham) says, "Silence! I kill you!"
Should not have contacted him. You seem suprised a cop was an ass :dunno:
SD! Please try not to generalize.
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Sounds like it was found by KDOT, ironically some of the same people I used to work with.
The trooper was an ass.
I may get billed for the bomb squad.
I'm thinking of calling the newspaper so at least I can get my 5 minutes of American Idol fame out of this.
As Achmed the Dead Terrorist (Jeff Dunham) says, "Silence! I kill you!"
Should not have contacted him. You seem suprised a cop was an ass :dunno:
SD! Please try not to generalize.
I know a few cops that are ok, but I don't interact with them on a "professional level."
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Sounds like it was found by KDOT, ironically some of the same people I used to work with.
The trooper was an ass.
I may get billed for the bomb squad.
I'm thinking of calling the newspaper so at least I can get my 5 minutes of American Idol fame out of this.
As Achmed the Dead Terrorist (Jeff Dunham) says, "Silence! I kill you!"
Should not have contacted him. You seem suprised a cop was an ass :dunno:
SD! Please try not to generalize.
odd exclamation point placement imo.
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Sounds like it was found by KDOT, ironically some of the same people I used to work with.
The trooper was an ass.
I may get billed for the bomb squad.
I'm thinking of calling the newspaper so at least I can get my 5 minutes of American Idol fame out of this.
As Achmed the Dead Terrorist (Jeff Dunham) says, "Silence! I kill you!"
Should not have contacted him. You seem suprised a cop was an ass :dunno:
SD! Please try not to generalize.
I know a few cops that are ok, but I don't interact with them on a "professional level."
I discovered long ago that you can accomplish alot more by treating people with respect and dignity. Unless, that is, they act like total dickweeds, then game on.
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Sounds like it was found by KDOT, ironically some of the same people I used to work with.
The trooper was an ass.
I may get billed for the bomb squad.
I'm thinking of calling the newspaper so at least I can get my 5 minutes of American Idol fame out of this.
As Achmed the Dead Terrorist (Jeff Dunham) says, "Silence! I kill you!"
Should not have contacted him. You seem suprised a cop was an ass :dunno:
SD! Please try not to generalize.
odd exclamation point placement imo.
I know it prob wouldn't get me an 'A' in english class.
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Sounds like it was found by KDOT, ironically some of the same people I used to work with.
The trooper was an ass.
I may get billed for the bomb squad.
I'm thinking of calling the newspaper so at least I can get my 5 minutes of American Idol fame out of this.
As Achmed the Dead Terrorist (Jeff Dunham) says, "Silence! I kill you!"
Should not have contacted him. You seem suprised a cop was an ass :dunno:
I'm not really surprised by it, especially since it was a bomb squad guy. I mean, this is a guy that goes around thinking anything sitting out in public could kill him, from mattresses laying in the median that blew off of someones van to a napkin blowing in the wind. I'd hate to have a job that left me that high-strung.
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They X-rayed the container and did not see anything hazardous inside, they blew it up anyway....
These are the kids that went nuts on 4th of July, then found a job that actually paid them to keep blowing things up. I can see the conversation now. "X-Ray is clear. Dang... We did drive all the way out here. Maybe just to be sure..."
I use a garmin 60csx.
Nice. I think the 60csx is actually better than the new Colorado and Oregon models. Better battery life, precission and reliability. You can get a new one for under $200 online.
Good luck with the cop. What a prick.
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They X-rayed the container and did not see anything hazardous inside, they blew it up anyway....
These are the kids that went nuts on 4th of July, then found a job that actually paid them to keep blowing things up. I can see the conversation now. "X-Ray is clear. Dang... We did drive all the way out here. Maybe just to be sure..."
I use a garmin 60csx.
The under $200 are probably either refurbs, which I don't trust, or stolen and resold.
Nice. I think the 60csx is actually better than the new Colorado and Oregon models. Better battery life, precission and reliability. You can get a new one for under $200 online.
Good luck with the cop. What a prick.
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http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/may/04/geocache-couple-wont-face-charges/ (http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/may/04/geocache-couple-wont-face-charges/)
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Jeez, Jeffy. Did you do this one, too?
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There are stories like that all the time. Technically, it's against gc.com policy to place a cache anywhere near what could be construed as a terrorist target (rest areas don't count). Schools and bridges are included in that list, but I've found quite a few near bridges - not so many near schools.
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Seriously though, why a rest area? not exactly an elite geocache locale.
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How about in the tracks of a tank?
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geocacher's are one small step above Renaissance festival go'ers. :lol: :lol:
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geocacher's are one small step above Renaissance festival go'ers. :lol: :lol:
You, sir, are one step above the dog crap on my shoe.
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Seriously though, why a rest area? not exactly an elite geocache locale.
Rest areas are nice locations for caches. As a traveler, it's good to have a quick stop to pee and cache, hopefully not in the same place. There are quite a few creative caches placed in rest areas, most of them quite a ways from the pee shack. The one I had blown up was clear at the back of the rest area, probably 100 yards from an well traveled area.
While rest area caches aren't must-see caches, they are solid, well placed caches for the most part.
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Seriously though, why a rest area? not exactly an elite geocache locale.
Rest areas are nice locations for caches. As a traveler, it's good to have a quick stop to pee and cache, hopefully not in the same place. There are quite a few creative caches placed in rest areas, most of them quite a ways from the pee shack. The one I had blown up was clear at the back of the rest area, probably 100 yards from an well traveled area.
While rest area caches aren't must-see caches, they are solid, well placed caches for the most part.
Sounds like a good serial killer hangout spot.
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How about in the tracks of a tank?
As long as it's not a tank that's on patrol in Baghdad, it's ok. Military equipment on display in parks are very popular places to hide caches. Sometimes they can be quite tricky to find.
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Seriously though, why a rest area? not exactly an elite geocache locale.
Rest areas are nice locations for caches. As a traveler, it's good to have a quick stop to pee and cache, hopefully not in the same place. There are quite a few creative caches placed in rest areas, most of them quite a ways from the pee shack. The one I had blown up was clear at the back of the rest area, probably 100 yards from an well traveled area.
While rest area caches aren't must-see caches, they are solid, well placed caches for the most part.
Sounds like a good serial killer hangout spot.
Serial killer yes, but serial bomber/terrorist - no.
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How about in the tracks of a tank?
As long as it's not a tank that's on patrol in Baghdad, it's ok. Military equipment on display in parks are very popular places to hide caches. Sometimes they can be quite tricky to find.
Tell me about it. Took me awhile to find it.
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How about in the tracks of a tank?
As long as it's not a tank that's on patrol in Baghdad, it's ok. Military equipment on display in parks are very popular places to hide caches. Sometimes they can be quite tricky to find.
Try train cars on display. Can be 2 or 3 times as big with far more places to hide.
Tell me about it. Took me awhile to find it.
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How about in the tracks of a tank?
As long as it's not a tank that's on patrol in Baghdad, it's ok. Military equipment on display in parks are very popular places to hide caches. Sometimes they can be quite tricky to find.
Try train cars on display. Can be 2 or 3 times as big with far more places to hide.
Tell me about it. Took me awhile to find it.
Did that one, too, smart guy.
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If there's anywhere I'd like to spend more time in my life, it's a highway rest area.
this emoticon clearly comes from a rest area experience :'byecruelworld:
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If there's anywhere I'd like to spend more time in my life, it's a highway rest area.
this emoticon clearly comes from a rest area experience :'byecruelworld:
Most rest areas in this state are actually quite large and some even have trails. I believe all have picnic shelters.
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If there's anywhere I'd like to spend more time in my life, it's a highway rest area.
this emoticon clearly comes from a rest area experience :'byecruelworld:
Most rest areas in this state are actually quite large and some even have trails. I believe all have picnic shelters mass graves.
FYP
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If there's anywhere I'd like to spend more time in my life, it's a highway rest area.
this emoticon clearly comes from a rest area experience :'byecruelworld:
Most rest areas in this state are actually quite large and some even have trails. I believe all have picnic shelters mass graves.
FYP
Is that what those big smelly ponds are? Ugh... that may not have been a fish I cleaned and ate.
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If there's anywhere I'd like to spend more time in my life, it's a highway rest area.
this emoticon clearly comes from a rest area experience :'byecruelworld:
Most rest areas in this state are actually quite large and some even have trails. I believe all have picnic shelters mass graves.
FYP
Is that what those big smelly ponds are? Ugh... that may not have been a fish I cleaned and ate.
It still smelled like a fish, didn't it?
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