Travel Bug Dog Tag The Ugly Pig

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Released:
Saturday, January 24, 2004
Origin:
Arizona, United States
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Current Goal

PRIMARY MISSION :

To reach the Barra90 Cache (GCG2TJ) in Mozambique, the furthest cache on earth from my house.

About This Item

The Ugly Pig

So now you ask yourself, why Mozambique. I'll tell you.

My 2-year old son found this pig in a cache, and it is WITHOUT QUESTION the ugliest thing I have ever seen in my life. Note its timid expression... its hot Barbie pink toes and nose... its udders... and the bloody tongue in its mouth. This pig is either possessed or just plain evil.

Now a sane person would throw it away. Not me! I want this thing as far as possible from my house --- which, in January 2004, means the Barra90 Cache in Mozambique --- the furthest cache from my house on the planet.

But that doesn't mean you can't give this guy a little scare along the way.

GEOCACHERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO :

Take pictures of The Ugly Pig in front of places that will scare him! (E.G. slaughterhouses, meat packing factories, rows of bacon in the supermarket.) Use your imagination.

GET HIM OUT OF HERE!

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Tracking History (11393.1mi) View Map

Dropped Off 11/21/2004 Cache-is Clay placed it in Schlierbach 1 Oberösterreich, Austria - 5,354.36 miles  Visit Log

This pig is bad luck to anyone who has it! I can't even begin to tell you about the many strange things that have happened while this was in my possesion, freakish accidents, mysterious illness, bone-head moves, broken down equiptment, lost passports,lost luggage. but once I braved the hike on a knee that somehow swelled up almost twice the size and would not bend (I was desperate to rid myself of the evil schwammel) and dropped it off everything was alright from then on!
SO BEWARE OF THIS EVIL, EVIL PIG!!!!!

[This entry was edited by Cache-is Clay on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 at 12:30:55 PM.]
Retrieve It from a Cache 10/20/2004 Cache-is Clay retrieved it from Oscar's Place Washington   Visit Log

Cripes! I've recently had a scare with what I could only imagine was a wild boar out in the woods on a recent cache hunt and now I find this one. in a few weeks I will move this wildebeast to a far away country where they know how to prepare evil pigs, all I will say at this point is 'would the evil pig like to meet a Wiener Schnitzel'!

Dropped Off 10/10/2004 bitwits placed it in Oscar's Place Washington - 2,127.57 miles  Visit Log

We took the pig some distance with the intent of dropping it off at an intended cache, but found the pig to be very bad luck for us. We were DNF on a difficulty one cache (!). We've since decided the pig is truly a curse ;-) Finally, we dropped him in a lovely cache overlooking the water and a pleasant park, and bid him farewell.
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 10/6/2004 bitwits grabbed it   Visit Log

After the birthday gag surprise, the pig was returned to our possession to resume its journey (apparently, pigs CAN fly). We have a cache in mind we intend to find and place it in.
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 9/18/2004 ShadowAce grabbed it   Visit Log

MUAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHA

Now that was fun.. BitWits were so kind to allow this to happen. Now, who will be able to mail it back for Christmas? 🙂

  • Present And he so thought it would be a nice gift that he actually wanted. ROFL... Muahahahaha
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 9/18/2004 Cow Spots grabbed it   Visit Log

[b]The Full Tale of the Ugly Pig[/b]

Early in my geocaching career, I was out hunting with my then 1-and-a-half year old son. He chose this pig (at that time a regular trade item, not a Travel Bug) from a cache in Tucson, Arizona. It is, and remains, [b] THE MOST UGLY AND DEMENTED THING I HAVE EVER SEEN.[/b] My son loved it. "Unfortunately", he "lost" it while at Grandma's house. hehe

Unfortunately for ME, Grandma (knowing my distaste for the mutant porker) wrapped it up for me as a gag Christmas gift.

Therefore my only course of action was to make it into a Travel Bug. It goal was, and remains, to go as far from me as possible.

It did an admirable job, first drifting eastward until it reached the upstate New York area, where it disappeared until recently resurfacing in the Washington state area.

My caching buddy, [b]Shadowace[/b], pulled a beautiful prank today by arranging to have this [b]DEMONIC[/b] sow shipped to him and presented to me as a birthday present at the [url=http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=f6094e6a-b56e-426e-ae68-9c8396b20fcb]BYOYJ[/url] event in Arizona.

You dog. You sneaky dog.

I understand this sadistic and now almost certainly possessed swine will soon return to Washington to resume its nefarious plans.

I implore you, geocachers. GET HIM OUT OF HERE AND SCARE HIM ALONG THE WAY!

I feel much better now.

  • Swinestalker I am less than amused at the unexpected resurrection of The Ugly Pig.
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 9/18/2004 Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking grabbed it   Visit Log

This is the ugliest plastic animal Ive seen. If I ever come across it again, I will send it to one of my friends in Malaysia or someplace far far away.
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 9/18/2004 ~del Mar~ grabbed it   Visit Log

I was too horrified to do anyting but grab this one. Anyway I would not want to spoil the birthday surprize by taking it away so soon. I promise, if I ever come across the ugly pig again I will torture and curse it and send it far far away.
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 9/6/2004 bitwits grabbed it   Visit Log

Found the ugly pig in The Wind In The Hollow cache (Vashon, WA 98070 [N 47° 23.385 W 122° 26.950].

Looks like it must have hitched a ride from NY after all...

Unfortunately, instead of going transatlantic, it looks like it might have a mind to avenge itself upon its origins. At least that's what the look on its face says. I think. Hard to tell.

We'll try to send it in a direction other than south, if we can.

Meanwhile, we think we may have given it some good reason to leave. See the accompanying photo of the horrified pig witnessing the carnage of two young spare-rib eating natives.

  • Horrified pig watches as children eat its kind Yumm... barbeque spareribs. The pig didn't seem to appreciate it though.
Write note 8/26/2004 ShadowAce posted a note for it   Visit Log

I have noticed this pig is missing 😟 I had hoped to get a chance to torment the owner with it. Please help me find it..
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