{"id":1649,"date":"2009-09-03T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:12:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:12:18","slug":"suicide-by-bird-poop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1649","title":{"rendered":"Suicide by Bird Poop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part of Geocaching is monitoring your caches. This is done mainly by monitoring the logs that people write when they find your cache. SuperPizzaBoy and I have a cache downtown &#8220;One Degree of Separation: Boys Night Out&#8221; between the Doubltree Hotel and the Convention Center. Lots of out of towners staying at the hotel or attending the convention have found it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;\">I got concerned when I noticed the last two logs.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Cache-log2.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" lk=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Cache-log2-300x162.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;\">I know that they are kind of hard to read but basically they are not very complimentary about the condition of the cache. So I temporarily disabled the cache and went out at lunch today to check it out.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;\">What I found was my cache totally covered in white bird poop. Normally I would &#8220;plug and abandon&#8221; as we oilfield trash say but hey I paid $5.79 for the container at Walmart. I need to salvage it. So I pull it out and carry it back to the office. The office is about 4 blocks away and the more I walked the more the container stank. I got to wondering just how I was going to do this. If I got on the elevator with the thing it would stink things up. I didn&#8217;t take a picture of the cache because I didn&#8217;t want my hands to touch any part of me by this time but the last log included the picture below. It doesn&#8217;t really do it justice:<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/cache-photo.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" lk=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/cache-photo-300x211.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<p>I developed a plan so I went to the office and went downstairs to a large public restroom. I went and started washing the thing off. It stank up the whole room, but you know, $5.79 is a lot of money, especially with natural gas prices the way they are. I finally decided to take the camo duck tape off. It wouldn&#8217;t tear off so I pulled out my trusty swiss army knife and was working on it when the blade slipped on the bird poop and I stabbed by left index finger.<\/p>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;\">How embarrassing. Especially as a former assistant Cub Scout Den Leader. The shame, the humiliation, and oh, the blood. The blood was going everywhere. I also realized that the blade was soaked in bird poop. Not exactly an aboriginal antiseptic, I don&#8217;t think. So I cleaned the wound out as best I could and packed it with paper towels held in place by my thumb. And then I finished cleaning up the container because you know $5.79 is a lot of money.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;\">So I finally got the duck tape off and tossed it in the trash and by now the restroom really stunk, bad,&nbsp;(caused by the same stuff that got injected in&nbsp;my finger)&nbsp;and the people coming and going were looking at me as I was cleaning the blood, bird poop, and bits of camo duck tape out of the sink.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;\">So I took everything upstairs. I went over to our first aid cabinet and collected some disinfectant wipes, neosporin, and a couple bandages and went to a coworker and he doctored me up.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;\">Here is some more photos. First, the cleaned up, duck taped removed, still fragrant, $5.79 cache container.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/3882435051\/\" title=\"20090902_2 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20090902_2\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/3882435051_e9a227da01-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The not so sharp instrument.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/3882441249\/\" title=\"20090902_5 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20090902_5\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/3882441249_ea4676fdff-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The finger.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/3883232004\/\" title=\"20090902_4 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20090902_4\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/3883232004_ff0a0afc03-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hey, does anybody know if birdpoop can kill you? <\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; I archived the cache. I&#8217;m not going through this again. But I&#8217;m going to reuse the container. Save me $5.79 and tax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of Geocaching is monitoring your caches. This is done mainly by monitoring the logs that people write when they find your cache. SuperPizzaBoy and I have a cache downtown &#8220;One Degree of Separation: Boys Night Out&#8221; between the Doubltree Hotel and the Convention Center. Lots of out of towners staying at the hotel or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,770],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geocaching","category-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}