The Redneck Cache Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 12/5/2009
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

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Eddie Harvey was somewhat of a local celebrity. Eddie owned an auto parts store in North Knoxville. He was known as a fair and honest man, who stood behind the products that he sold. In earlier years Eddie had supplemented his income by bootlegging whiskey, and building fast cars for those who ran “shine” out of the hills of East Tennessee and Kentucky. He was even credited with building the car for Rufus Gunner, the moonshine runner for which the song Thunder Road was written. One afternoon on a particularly slow day at the store, the telephone rang, and from that moment on, Eddie Harvey would be catapulted from just a colorful local cult figure to an international celebrity.
On the other end of the telephone line was a local prankster named Johnny Bean. Now Johnny was known in school as the “class clown” and would go to great lengths to get a “good one” on his friends. Johnny thought it would be funny to call up local businesses and give them a ration of grief, and tape the conversations on his reel to reel tape, after all Johnny didn’t have much to loose, as he was dying from the radiation treatments that had “cured him” of Hodgkin's Disease.
Johnny was claiming to be Bill Morgan from just outside of Maynardville. He had bought an oil filter from Eddie’s store up there and said the filter had caused his motor to blow up and he wanted Eddie to pay for the motor. Well Eddie told “Mr. Morgan” with a few expletetives deleted that he wasn’t going to pay for his motor, that’s when Bill told Eddie that he would come down there and whup his (darn butt). Being a smallish man,but tough as shoe leather, Eddie replied “well come on down, I’ll be right here”.
Johnny recorded many such telephone conversations, and after his death, a friend shared the tapes with a friend. It wasn’t long before the tapes were duplicated so much that they became an international phenomenon known as “The Redneck Tapes”. Truckers took them as far as California, and they eventually were enjoyed by our troops in “Desert Storm”, and have since found their way to all four corners of the world. Local celebrity Johnny Knoxville featured the story on his show “Jackass”, and even taped another prank on Eddie Harvey, with similar results.
I was fortunate to get a copy of the tapes back in the 80’s and still get a charge out of listening to it to this day.
Several “copy cat” artists have since cropped up trying to capitalize on the phenomenon , but they are all cheap imitations to the “Picasso of the prank phone call, Johnny Bean.

The cache container has been changed to a bison tube, with convenient parking……huh.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

4gu srapr cbfg

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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