[GeoStL] Another reminder to avoid railroad caches!
- From: Pam Ekey <pekey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Geocaching <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:45:41 -0700 (PDT)
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Here's another reminder why we don't hide caches near trains or railroad
equipment! This is from today's Indianapolis Star:
Web game leads to bomb scare
Associated Press
October 27, 2004
HARTFORD CITY, Ind. -- Police shut down three businesses and evacuated everyone
inside after a competitor in an Internet scavenger hunt placed a box under a
train behind an ice cream shop.
They were allowed to return about three hours later after the Delaware County
Bomb Squad determined the box was not dangerous, the Star Press of Muncie
reported today.
The bomb squad was dispatched Tuesday afternoon after police received a report
that someone had put the box at the Tin Lizzy, at Indiana 3 and Indiana 18,
about 45 miles southwest of Fort Wayne, said Blackford County Sheriff Kevin
Mahan.
Investigators said David Cook of Gaston, a 37-year-old computer consultant, had
placed the box under the train as part of an Internet game called geocaching.
The game is similar to an on-line scavenger hunt, Cook said. Someone will hide
a box somewhere and then place the global positioning system coordinates on a
Web site. Players then get the coordinates and go looking for the box.
When they find it, they remove an item and replace it with a simple trinket or
toy, sign the book and go back to the Web site and log it. Cook said he had
found the box and then put it back, along with others at an old cabin and in a
cemetery.
"I feel horrible about the whole thing," he said. "I've heard of high-profile
cases where boxes placed near government buildings were mistaken for bombs. But
I've never been involved with anything like this, not even remotely."
Mahan said he did not know if Cook would face charges.
"We're going to interview Cook, tally the costs and then meet with the
prosecutor," he said. "People have to understand that I've been to three FBI
and CIA briefings in the last two weeks, getting briefed on terrorists and
terrorism. They need to find another game."
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