Caught Red Handed!

[Mynock]

The quarry I sink in is frequented by dirt bikes, quads, mud trucks, etc. I think I've been seen by those a few times but never confronted. Then one time.....

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[BananaTeaPot66]

I suppose I have, not so much in the middle of a mud pit but often in the process of cleaning or moving around while muddy.

Ratio wise I suppose every few attempts I run into someone but after all this time I've stopped being bothered. I always take the least trodden woodland area yet least doesn't mean never!

1st time caught

This was ages ago, probably 7 years. The mud was shallow and I'd just knelt down to find a couple coming along the exact track. I panicked and hid around the bend but that just left me barefoot and unable to reach my spare clothes. By the time they left, I thought I was in the clear but I saw them watching from up higher as I collected my things!

They left quick after starring, I had an awkward glance later once we passed again near the car park. Overall, could have been far worse, they probably thought I was hiding something in the woods.

2nd time

I won't list all of these but this time I was waist deep in muddy water sliding around when I noticed a guy starring daggers at me from up a height. I froze, he must have been watching me for a while and I didn't know what to do. He was at least 15 metres away so I just leapt up in the end and ran off. He never followed or said anything, but I learnt to check my surroundings!

Other times

Mostly, I've had the odd comment about why I'm soaked, or if I fell over when walking past people but otherwise nothing negative. Today actually, I had a cyclist see my legs covered in mud after I visited a mound near a farmers field. I pretend to look lost and off balance to give the impression I had fallen over, not that he said anything, just looked at my funny.


Same day I found a thigh deep marsh and after sinking I climbed out to reach a close stream for washing. A man saw me clear as day, covered in mud and stopped repeatedly to stare, move, stare again and at one point I thought he'd take a photo

I should say, I was fully clothed while sitting in the stream when another man passed by. i just paid him no mind and I guess he'd seen stranger things and just walked on too.

So to end, I've been caught muddy a few times but never sinking deeply or anything, usually washing off or while finding a spot too!

[Meeca]

Not actually caught while in quicksand, but seen by neighbours and onlookers as I walked home soaked from my ribs down after I'd been stuck in a quarry when I was in my early teens back in the '70s.

It was a cold autumn day and I was desperate to get home to warm up in the shower. I got some bemused looks and some asked if I was OK. I could hardly reply due to early onset hypothermia, but I managed to nod and grunt, " Y-y-yeah. "

I was asked later what had happened and I replied I'd " accidentally " stepped into quicksand while walking around a nearby quarry. They said I was lucky to not have drowned or if I couldn't get out I would have froze to death eventually.

I was more glad I hadn't lost my sneakers !

[reisen55]

Gotcha all beat - my first wife enjoyed story telling when we were engaged in making love - but she also loved about 5 different varieties of drugs which ended 3 years of marriage and then divorce. Her lawyer (scum) put her up to writing the quicksand fantasy in her counter claim. Detailed too so I could never let any family member support me in court in case she when bezocko nuts. Even so, reading our fantasy world in the cold legal language is soul destructive and to this day I have not fully recovered My lawyer - good one - never brought that aspect of her complaint up with me.