[GeoStL] Re: Another reminder to avoid railroad caches!
- From: Pam Ekey <pekey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:09:28 -0700 (PDT)
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It sounds like he didn't place the cache originally -- he just found it, signed
the log and put it back. Still, we have to use common sense in placing caches.
The old hollow log is looking pretty good right now.
Pam/Tribble
Chris Binder <cpbinder@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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"
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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
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pam Ekey"
> To: "Geocaching"
> 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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> >
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