[GeoStL] Re: Another reminder to avoid railroad caches!
- From: "tklnhl" <sydstyr@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:51:25 -0500
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Wow -- Rich said all that???
JK..
Nancy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Lusicic" <lusicic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 5:14 PM
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Another reminder to avoid railroad caches!
> -
> Well, lets think about this. What about a micro? Cannot put it in a
> public place because it could be mistaken for a poison gas cylinder or
> maybe it is full of anthrax? I am with Rich. This terrorism scare is
> making life in this country less free each and every day, and there is
> just too much crying wolf... or the sky is falling to suit me. I fear
> what they may up with next. Especially in an election year where someone
> can claim how safe they have made is from terrorism by banning
> geocaching because it is so easy to confuse with a terrorist bomb or
> other instrument of destruction.
>
> Chris Binder wrote:
>
>>-
>>Well...it's common sense to not put a cache near a railroad, road bridge,
>>tunnel, or a government facility. It's the guy's fault anyway.
>>
>>~Chris
>>
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "GC-RGS" <gc-rgs@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 4:57 PM
>>Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Another reminder to avoid railroad caches!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>-
>>>"They need to find another game."
>>>
>>>Ouch, I don't like that last sentence.
>>>
>>>Rich
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Pam Ekey" <pekey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>To: "Geocaching" <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 4:45 PM
>>>Subject: [GeoStL] Another reminder to avoid railroad caches!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>-
>>>>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."
>>>
>>>
>>>>var pageName="Web game leads to bomb scare"var server=""var
>>>>
>>>>
>>>channel="News"var pageType="article"var pageValue=""var prop1=""var
>>>prop2=""var prop3="updates/news"var prop4=""var prop5=""var
>>>
>>>
>>prop6="news"var
>>
>>
>>>prop7="local_news"var prop8=""var prop9=""var prop10=""var s_code='
>>>'if(s_code!='
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>'){s_it('gpaper138')if(s_code=s_dc('gpaper138'))document.write(s_code)}elsed
>>
>>
>>>ocument.write('')
>>>
>>>
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