Mainsail
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Wandering in the woods and stumble on some stolen guns, what are the odds? This is not me BTW.
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Well here was an unusual one that I found one day during my lunch hour. mtn_goat and I were geocaching at lunch and were having trouble finding the last leg of a multicache (It turns out it was missing). It was in a small wooded area inside of a city, So we wondered off to another cache that was only a few hundred feet away. On the way back to the multi at a distance of 50 feet from cache, I spotted something under some brush. I pulled it out thinking, well it could be the cache.... but having a bad feeling it wasn't.
Opened it and found what looked like a single shot 20 gauge shot gun, and a remington bolt action rifle with scope. I was thinking.... I wonder if I can swap some geocaching swag for the rifle. But I didn't think that the cops would believe I found a gun case with one gun and a travel size playdoe.
That whole "Possession of a stolen firearm" being a felony, decided it might not be that great of a trade.
Called the police on the non-emergency line, and waited 20 minutes on hold before I could talk to anyone. And another 10-15 for the police cruizer to show up. The officer was a bit curious about why we were in the woods, and we had to explain geocaching to her. The officer called me back later, and was curious to know if a geocacher may have placed this out there. I of course said no, I thought it was kids that stole it and they stashed it in the woods near thier house since they wouldn't be able to sneak it into thier house. The officer did tell me they were stolen and the owner was happy to get them back.
In the end, an exciting day of geocaching but we were very late getting back from lunch that day.
http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=143959&st=0&gopid=2466754&#entry2466754
Well here was an unusual one that I found one day during my lunch hour. mtn_goat and I were geocaching at lunch and were having trouble finding the last leg of a multicache (It turns out it was missing). It was in a small wooded area inside of a city, So we wondered off to another cache that was only a few hundred feet away. On the way back to the multi at a distance of 50 feet from cache, I spotted something under some brush. I pulled it out thinking, well it could be the cache.... but having a bad feeling it wasn't.
Opened it and found what looked like a single shot 20 gauge shot gun, and a remington bolt action rifle with scope. I was thinking.... I wonder if I can swap some geocaching swag for the rifle. But I didn't think that the cops would believe I found a gun case with one gun and a travel size playdoe.
That whole "Possession of a stolen firearm" being a felony, decided it might not be that great of a trade. Called the police on the non-emergency line, and waited 20 minutes on hold before I could talk to anyone. And another 10-15 for the police cruizer to show up. The officer was a bit curious about why we were in the woods, and we had to explain geocaching to her. The officer called me back later, and was curious to know if a geocacher may have placed this out there. I of course said no, I thought it was kids that stole it and they stashed it in the woods near thier house since they wouldn't be able to sneak it into thier house. The officer did tell me they were stolen and the owner was happy to get them back.
In the end, an exciting day of geocaching but we were very late getting back from lunch that day.
