Calling all caching fools...calling all caching fools! Please join us for an informal April Fools meet and greet at Flaming Amy's Burrito Barn from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. or until the party winds down on Saturday, March 30th. Why? Because it's been too long since the last one!
Please join us for decent food that you purchase yourselves (no purchase required), geo-talk, and maybe some foolish pranks, and outright lies. Just like last time, we will award a snazzy fool-themed cache container to the person who shares the best caching fool story...and, hey, there's still plenty of time to create a good one!
Let's take a look at our previous years' winners, so everyone knows what they're up against:
Caching Fool I - hootgibson59 (he actually believed that his family wanted to go geocaching with him, but they were really just getting him out of the house in preparation for a surprise party! SUCKER!!)
Caching Fool II - RangerTJ (he sprinted past a lady IN A WHEELCHAIR so he could beat her to a FTF!)
Caching Fool III - Maingray (he stopped for some caching while en route from Chapel Hill to the Caching Fool III event and found his vehicle playing a starring role in a big CAR CRASH. He and his lucky passengers came to the event anyway!)
Caching Fool IV - ncbiscuit (she got her license plate taken away (mistakenly) by 2 Sherrif's deputies while caching.)
Caching Fool V - Janie13 (she cached the wrong way down a one-way street not once, twice, but three days in a row on vacation in Belize. No wonder why those park and grabs were all on the wrong side of the road!)
Caching Fool VI - vortexecho (he accidently got into the wrong car after finding a cache and gave the poor woman driver quite a fright!)
Caching Fool VII - Mr. ILM Cachers (he decided to "go all in" in February in 37° weather and go up to his waist in a swamp to retrieve a cache and after, was so desperate for lunch that he stripped naked on Highway 54 in Durham and donned ncbiscuit's yoga pants and spotted socks so he would have dry clothes at the restaurant.)
Caching Fool VIII - Mr. Tikibirds (he took the opportunity to find a geocache in a cemetery (down a very steep ravine) in the hour before he had to attend a very important work seminar. He wound up face first with torn pants in a muddy creek. Too bad he was wearing his work clothes! Guess he didn't end up at that seminar on time.)
Caching Fool IX - Tatortott (she had an epic 6-hour geocaching saga in WV that included getting her car stuck, speaking to 911 operators in 3 states, and an inept tow truck driver with an antique tow truck--all in the pouring rain!)
Caching Fool X - The Danvers Duo (they had quite a tale of woe on the Bling trail. They were stuck in the mud, their battery died, and they lost their friends (who walked 4 miles to call a tow truck), but they used their waiting time wisely by continuing to geocache.)
Caching Fool XI - BigD1979 (for his law-enforcement encounter: While looking to place a geocache near the Fort Fisher hermit's graveyard with ChefTruk, he wandered into federal land full of motion detectors and sound detectors and luckily only walked off with a warning (now framed).)
Caching Fool XII - No fool as the event was canceled due to Covid.
Caching Fool XIII - Allenite (who went to a large geocaching event in Indiana and decided to go night catching with a bunch of people he didn't know (and bloodhounds and ghost hunters and sheriffs who are scared). But they did find the geocache.)
Caching Fool XIV - jinx57 (for her story about SHEARGS. They were caching with another couple in Ohio at a bridge cache when one false step sent SHEARGS over the edge. Thank goodness that little tree caught him, or who knows what would have happened! They no longer like bridge caches.)