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The Ultimate Muggles!
They came from above.
Posted in the Groundspeak forum by photogal928
Well, Takes the Hard Way, Baxter the Cache Sniffer and I decided to go find our first night cache (GC1DYGG). Never did find the cache, but we had quite an adventure all the same.
We made our way to the final stage and had been searching for a while when we saw a helicopter approaching from the north. Takes the Hard Way suggested we turn off our flashlights so as not to attract unwanted attention. The copter flew over and went down the road a bit then turned around and circled. We were under a tree and stood there waiting for the copter to go on its way. I could see flashing lights on the highway in the distance and figured the helicopter was providing overhead support. However, it kept circling us again and again, getting closer each time. Then finally, it stopped almost right on top of us!
At this point, TTHW and I weren't sure exactly what was going on... but I figured they knew we were there so we stepped out from under the tree and after what seemed like a really long time, they finally turned on the spot light. Should have taken advantage of the extra light to look for the cache, but we didn't know the proper protocol to follow when you've got a police spot light on you, so we just stood there and laughed, not believing our luck and waited... we figured someone was on their way. (Hopefully it would be the cops and not some deranged criminal who had ditched a stolen car on the highway and ran off into the brush).
Sure enough a couple police officers came hiking up the hill. We explained what we were doing, they laughed and called off the helicopter. It seems they saw our car and due to the large number of gas well thefts and vandalism recently, they were checking everything out. They wished us luck and then the ultimate muggles went on their way.