April Fool's Cache

For our traditional kebab event on Holy Thursday ("Dönerstag" = kebab day), we were invited to go for a First to Find on a new multi cache. The listing was sent to anyone who logged a "Will attend" for the event the night before. The story sounded interesting enough, air-raid shelters underneath an old park/cemetery in Rostock. Equipment to get the cache included a roll of toilet paper or paper towels and about 1m of ribbon. Curious enough! The cache owner and event host promised kebab coupons for the FTV (sic!).
I thought there were letters missing in the first paragraph, but postponed a closer look until the next day. I could still go caching after work, before the event.
Still I thought about the new cache all next morning and decided to take a closer look. The missing letters spelled "april"! I knew it! I asked the owner, if FTV would mean First to Verarscht (=kid, sh**) and while first trying to tell me it was a typo since F and V are very close to each other on the keyboard, he soon asked me not to tell anyone. I learned that the box at the 2nd station, which, according to the listing, would contain instruction notes, held a note saying "April, April" and a number of laminated medals to be attached to the ribbon.

What a great idea! Now we both looked forward to seeing who would be the ones wearing those medals for the kebab event! It even felt quite weird not to "have to" go caching before the event :) More time to spend at work.... *rollingeyes*
When I arrived to the event, I learned that one of Rostock's newbie geocachers won the FTV (= First To Veräppelt) and a few more had tried to find it. One even wanted it to be his 500th find!
Most people kept quiet about it, so other teams left early to go for the cache. In the end I went with a close friend, another team, the owner and his girlfriend. She knew about the fake geocache, so it was only 3 people who "really" went geocaching. We followed the instructions and collected all information until we reached the box at the 2nd station.
You've been fooled! :D

This April Fool geocache was a lot more fun than my radio station telling me it was one hour later than it actually was, more fun than another radio station telling me 13 secret Beatles songs have been discovered, playing one of the exclusively - which I could sing along immediately (I forgot what it was) or telling that a Dutch millionaire got Jens Lehmann (1st Bundesliga) to play for Hansa Rostock (2nd liga and fighting)... Thanks to the owner!!!