A group of six cachers attacked ThePetersPack!

To fully understand this story, there is some background that needs explaining. ThePetersPack have been caching since November 1st, 2003. After many months, their cleared radius was stretched so far that traveling to the closest cache yet to be done required quite a bit of driving. As an experiment, Tim from ThePetersPack began bragging about his cleared radius with the hopes that other cachers would recognize the challenge and place some caches close to shut him up. Bushwhack Bob said it best, "Tim put a chip on his shoulder and dared someone to knock it off."

ThePetersPack's ploy for new caches in their already cleared radius worked very well indeed. Team Pookie, i4ani, ubberbikegeek, scout323, sneezy, and others have placed caches trying to "knock the chip off The PetersPack's shoulder." Fismo was quoted, "I can't keep up with all the new caches being placed in Londonderry and with gas at near $2.00 per gallon, this is getting expensive!"

Little did ThePetersPack know how well this ploy would work. A group of six very astute geocachers took it upon themselves to silence ThePetersPack's conceit and concocted a plan. This group consists of Hikers2, Team Pookie, Capybaron, MrEdden, Moose R Us and Me&My4Girls, who named themselves "The Ravenclaw Quiddich Team" (RQT).

Meanwhile, ThePetersPack placed a night cache in Londonderry, New Hampshire, called Nevermore, which used Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" as its theme. ThePetersPack put a prop (a special bird) in the container and asked that it stay in the cache, as it was not a trade item.

The RQT assembled as a group and made its way to Nevermore on a dark and memorable night. A unique part of the Nevermore cache is that only one word logs are allowed. RQT bird napped the prop and logged the following message:

Got

Your

Bird

Want

It

Back?

This part was tricky because the one word logs had to be made in reverse order so they would read properly.

Subsequently, RQT created an alias email address and sent this photo to ThePetersPack:

Along with the photo came a list of ransom demands:

1. ThePetersPack would first have to go to a local cache and retrieve the Wise Owl travel bug
2. Then visit each of six new, member only, caches (One new cache was created by each of the six members of the RQT)
3. Leave a bird related item in each cache
4. Photograph "Wise Owl" at each cache
5. Log "Wise Owl" in and out of each cache
6. Record a clue from each of the six new caches that would lead to the kidnapped bird
7. Meet the RQT at the location indicated from the clues at an assigned date and time

Six bird-related caches were placed in ThePetersPack's already cleared radius; each having a small portion of the coordinates to a seventh cache where the ThePetersPack could finally retrieve their missing bird.

Weeks of hunting down the bird caches, one of which was on an island that required an .8-mile paddle, gave ThePetersPack the coordinates for the final cache.

The RQT meet ThePetersPack at the final cache for a photo opportunity. Of course, ThePetersPack could not resist the opportunity to seek a bit of revenge. So, as soon as the bird was retrieved, ThePack pulled out containers of silly string and covered the culprits.