[Az-Geocaching] How not to geocache

[Scott Wood]

At 07:54 AM 12/10/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Sorry to hear about your troubles.
>
>Now is probably not a good time to tell you that most PU truck rear
>windows pop out fairly easily.  They're just held in by the rubber
>gasket and they can be pried out without too much trouble.

I actually tried that but had no tools that I had access to.  They were 
behind the seat. :-)

The up side is that I have always wanted to put a slider into it but have 
always waited.  Now I have the perfect excuse. :-)


>Bob
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott Wood [mailto:wood@myblueheaven.com]
>Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 6:10 PM
>To: az-geocaching@listserv.snaptek.com
>Subject: [Az-Geocaching] How not to geocache
>
>
>Thought that I would post this here first since there seems to be
>something
>wrong over at geocaching.com preventing me from logging today's finds.
>
>After doing a few odd jobs around the house this morning I decided that
>I
>would go out and find a few caches on my own since Ann went to the 4th
>Avenue Street Fair.
>
>Everything started off pretty much normal but as I approached the cache
>area for "Sticky Fingers After the Saguaros" I was right behind a white
>Ford pickup that parked right where you would park for this cache.  I
>decided to head back up the road aways and wait for it to come back out
>as
>I figured that there might be a good chance they were also looking for
>the
>cache.  While I was waiting, a white car started going back and forth on
>
>the road in manner that made me think that they were also waiting.  Of
>course with my "GPSHUNT" personalized plates I figured my intentions
>were
>pretty clear. :-)  Anyway, I decided to kill some time and went back to
>the
>Circle K to get something to drink and some munchies.  When I arrived
>back
>near the cache area I met the white pickup on the way out so I figured I
>
>had a good chance of getting in.  As I parked, a silver car pulled up to
>
>the area and was looking around so I thought there might be a chance
>that
>this was still another cacher and decided to move quickly to get out of
>the
>pickup and into the desert.
>
>The only problem with moving quickly was that I went and locked my keys
>into my pickup.  At first I didn't think that this would be all that big
>of
>a deal since I did have a cell phone with me.
>
>I went out and found the cache with no real trouble.  Logged my find,
>made
>my trade and started working my way back to my pickup.  On the way I met
>a
>guy that was parked back in the area in a white Ford pickup, don't know
>if
>it was the same one or not.  We exchanged hellos and I was on my way.
>When
>I got back I started calling anyone and everyone who would have access
>to
>my spare set of keys.  The only problem was that no one was answering
>their
>phones.  I decided to sit and wait a little while to see if I could get
>ahold of anyone.
>
>After about 45 minutes the guy that was in the "second" white Ford left
>and
>I tried calling again.  Still no answer.  I decided to do the drastic
>thing
>and break a window so I could leave.  Found a big rock, wrapped it in a
>sweatshirt and gave it a very healthy swing at the side window.  I
>really
>didn't want to break the back one.  The rock hit the window, bounced
>back
>and hit my hand, and the window remained perfectly intact.  Of course my
>
>hand was a lot worse for wear.  Breaking down I finally took a swing at
>the
>back window and had no trouble breaking it out and getting into the
>truck.
>
>Guess this now counts as the most expensive, and painful cache for Team
>My
>Blue Heaven.
>
>Team My Blue Heaven -- Scott
>
>PS.  I will post a picture of the aftermath on the cache page as soon as
>
>the system will let me.
>
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In liberty,

Scott

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