Undercover Cache

Seriously???  And what does D3Y mean?

July 30, 2012 -- With the success of finding Happy we decided to take a chance on one of our most devious DNFs.  The cache behind the shopping center.  We knew it was an "imposter cache" but it was listed as 1 for terrain (very true) and 1 for difficulty.  Very NOT true.  I suppose if you were used to seeing these types of caches, maybe it would've been easier, but for the neo-geo, this kind of thing is not an ordinary cache.  AND we'd already done two of the other imposters in the series.  There is a fourth, but we really haven't tried for that one yet.  The other two were as tough as this one but had a difficulty of 2.5.  I think this one should've been at least that difficulty as well.  So back to the same site we'd already been to two other times.  Luckily we had no muggles nearby, but unluckily, the dumpsters REALLY needed to be emptied.  There was a total sickly rotted smell coming from them.  Like rotting fish.  Ugh!  It was hard to stay focused when that smell was wafting around the area.  Could it be a rock, a stick, a leaf, a switch box, a lock, a branch??  We were all being driven crazy.  I circled the area several times, then finally for some reason I started to pull at the stickers on the electrical box.  One seemed to pull off very easily.  Lo and behold UNDERNEATH the magnetic sticker that had the letters DY3 on it was the cache which consisted of a very tiny plastic bag and a strip of paper for a log.  Why did I mess with the sticker?  I don't know.  But there you go, it was indeed "in plain sight" as the hint said, but who would think to look under a series of nonsensical letters and numbers on a piece of equipment.  It just looked like a code for the big box.  Imposter, indeed!