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Harry Houdini : The Straight Jacket Escape Mystery Cache

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Team PEZ: gone for now, until i find an appropriate place for it again. thanks to all that have sought and found! - TP

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Hidden : 4/21/2005
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   not chosen (not chosen)

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Geocache Description:


FTF : JMTBuzz & JMTBuzz_jr


This is the fourth in a series of caches honoring one of the greatest magicians of all time - the late, the great, the one and only, Harry Houdini. Each cache in this series will be different then its predecessor. Different how, you ask? Well, that's what you will need to figure out.

Houdini began offering rewards to anyone who could restrain him - first in handcuffs but later in all manner of objects, leg irons, jails, a mail sack packing crates, a giant paper bag (without tearing it) and of course the legendary straight jacket illusion. He would perform this trick in full view of the audience, while dangling head first, 150 feet in the air. To help draw crowds and sell tickets, Houdini would do this trick, often at police stations with newspaper reporters present, assuring a headline story!

Your mission is to help Harry Houdini, the “handcuff king," the defier of locks, bars and bonds, attempt to free himself from the grip of a canvas, leather-reinforced straight jacket while swaying, head downwards, like a grotesque human pendulum, 150 feet above the pavement.

Will you succeed, or will you let Harry Houdini become road kill? You decide.

Please note how the cache was hidden. If you could place it back as you found it, or even better, this will prevent it from being bamboozeled and hornswaggled by muggles. And oh yea, for a hint - be careful where you walk!

Have you solved The Metamorphosis , The Milk Can Escape or The Great Escape yet?

Cache is not a "micro", however there is trade room available for small items.

DO NOT PARK ON RAMP, SIDE ROAD OR HIGHWAY. Doing such perhaps will get you either ticketed or killed. There is plenty of parking, if you look around.

thanks to T1 for birddogging the cache this afternoon!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Jubfr hc sbe cvmmn? Nfx Gubeal1 nobhg vg.

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)