[GeoStL] Re: Another reminder to avoid railroad caches!
- From: "Chris Binder" <cpbinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:03:16 -0500
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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>
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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
>
>
>
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> 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!
>
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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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