Alien Abduction #4: The Acreage Guy Traditional Cache
Alien Abduction #4: The Acreage Guy
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The central Alberta area has been plagued by a number of suspected alien abductions in recent months. All remain unexplained, and few if any gained media attention. This series of caches commemorate these unfortunate souls, and further investigation may bring answers to the mysteries.
Fred always loved the country and wanted to live there for a long time. Rather he liked his idea of the country, not knowing much if anything about it. He loved the romance of riding the range, without ever wondering how the cowboys stored coffee pots, frying pans and bacon in the bedroll on the back of their saddles. Details didn’t matter much to Fred, he was fully convinced that a 200HP car was harder to handle than a 1HP horse…or would be if he could only find the horses gas pedal. He’d actually planned to buy a horse until the neighbour told him they were hayburners… Fred was afraid of grass fires.
After a few years of looking he bought an acreage with all the essentials:
1. A one-ton dual wheel pickup truck (Japanese of course)
2. Two bales of straw and a blue heeler dog, both to ride in the truck
3. A pair of cowboy boots, with scalloped tops to tuck in his Jordache jeans.
4. A Stetson hat with a paisley hat band.
5. And a used Caterpillar snowblower, in anticipation of winter blizzards.
Then he bought “THE QUAD”. He never used its model name because it terrified him, and of course it wasn’t the pink version the salesman called the “pussycat” either. It clashed with his hat band and his ego. The QUAD was big enough to make him feel powerful, even though he had to rebuild two gates to drive it across the acreage.
The QUAD was actually his undoing. The day he had it into the shop for its monthly tune-up, he spotted the combination light bar, siren mount, satellite receiver attachment on display and had it installed. When he returned home at dusk he rode the QUAD all the way down to the South Quarter (okay, maybe 250 yards across the acreage) to test the new lights and siren. He never returned.
Authorities believe the multitude of assorted lights on a moon-buggy-like vehicle attracted the alien’s attention. They may have thought it a distress signal, or a landing beacon, or just looked so darned funny they couldn’t resist.
We will never know for sure.
This cache is an easy drive-up.
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(Decrypt)
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