ACME clicker No 470 („cricket“)
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Owner:
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DrRansom
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Released:
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Wednesday, August 27, 2025
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Origin:
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Austria
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Recently Spotted:
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In Murpromenade Graz-Süd
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Travel the world, remind us of the value and price of liberty.
If you crave freedom for yourself and others, you are not alone.
This is a replica of the "ACME clicker No 470", also called "cricket". It was a simple toy used by the paratroopers of 101st US Airborne soldiers on June 6th 1944 (D-Day) to differentiate friend from foe when they were dispersed in enemy country in the dark of the night.
Challenge: one click
Response: two clicks
From childhood on I was impressed that thousands of young men risked their lives to bring freedom back to Europe and end Nazi oppression.
Remembering their feat reminds me that the liberty of thought, speech and action, although a basic human right, must not be taken for granted, but has at various times been won through hardship and sacrifice.
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Tracking History (1303.8mi) View Map
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Ahab91 placed it in Murpromenade Graz-Süd
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Steiermark, Austria
- 94.52 miles
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Ahab91 retrieved it from ADIÖ - HELLÖ - Willkömmen an Börd
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Wien, Austria
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DrRansom placed it in ADIÖ - HELLÖ - Willkömmen an Börd
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Wien, Austria
- 18.19 miles
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Von hier geht’s in die weite Welt.
Nimmt mich wer mit ganz ohne Geld?
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DrRansom took it to Der Affe am Ende der Welt
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Niederösterreich, Austria
- 137.08 miles
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Hier bin ich einstmals losgestartet
hab in Köln dann lang gewartet.
Komm zu Besuch nur kurz und heiter
es zieht mich in die Ferne weiter.
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DrRansom took it to An der Zwieseler Spinne
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Bayern, Germany
- 101.32 miles
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Im Dunkeln wurde mir recht klamm
mein Cacher voll mit rotem Schlamm.
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DrRansom took it to Travel&Cache
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Bayern, Germany
- 203.38 miles
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Mit der Bahn kam ich hierher
und die Stadt gefällt mir sehr.
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DrRansom took it to Caspar David Friedrich
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Hamburg, Germany
- 4.73 miles
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Art in the mornin‘
keeps the wheels turnin‘.
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DrRansom took it to CoLinA
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Hamburg, Germany
- 221.13 miles
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DrRansom is far from his wife
took me to see Bob Dylan live
at a Hamburg concert hall
who wouldn’t answer to such call.
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DrRansom retrieved it from TB-Hotel Cologne Airport
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Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
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In Köln ich jetzt schon lange bin
drum zieht es mich nach Hamburg hin.
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Familie Puschel discovered it
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Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
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Gesehen im "TB-Hotel Cologne Airport"
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