[GeoStL] Re: Geocache game forces Wal-Mart evacuation
- From: Mike Lusicic <lusicic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:04:46 -0600
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I recall also, one of the first times I heard about a cache being hit by
a "disrupter". It was placed on private property and with the owner's
permission. Unfortunately, he did not inform his staff of the situation,
and they reported the "suspicious" activity. So even having permission
is NOT a guarantee that things like this will not happen. The property
owner needs to educate the staff. But that isn't going to stop the
hyper-paranoid bomb fearing good citizen who has been propagandized to
see a bomb and suspicious activity everywhere they look from reporting
it. It is going to happen. Next thing you know, the bomb squad will be
called to hike 15 miles into a desolate area because someone planted a
device to blow up a pine tree as part of a terrorist plot.
Mike Tollefson wrote:
> -
> >From the cache owner:
> As one of the members of TeamEmtFireKids & the member whom placed the cache
> originally @ the Titusville Walmart, permission was granted last winter by
> the Store Mgr to place the cache.
>
> Can I blame PSP, or the Erie Bomb Squad for blowing it up? In reality no,
> they were doing their job. I respect what they do, understand what they do &
> why they do it. As I come from a family of LEO's & Firefighters of 3rd
> generation.
>
> Was the container marked properly? The container was a clear 2qt Lock-n-Lock
> by Rubbermaid. It was camo taped to match the pine tree it was originally
> placed in. A small "Official Groundspeak Geocache" sticker on the lid, with
> email/cellphone contact information (laminated) inside of it with the logbook.
>
> Looking at the video, from where the Bomb Squad had detonated the cache at,
> it was in or towards the middle of the parking lot. This is not where the
> cache was originally placed at all. The cache was placed @ the end of the
> parking lot, in a small pine tree near a retention pond. (Clearly away from
> the building, far end of the parking lot)
>
> This cache was not easy to spot in its hiding place either, quite a few times
> I have gone over to check on the cache, parked right in front of it & could
> not see it. So it to have been moved out into the open, prior to calling PSP,
> Titusville PD & the Erie Bomb Squad by someone or something.
>
> The cache lived a short but good life of 13 months & 1 day, helped quite a
> few TBs & coins out & last but not least gave 79 cachers a smiley
>
> This goes to so you that getting permission doesn't stop these type of
> incidents. This wasn't even an LPC but hidden in a pine tree well away from
> the store.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Mike Griffin <griff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:39:12 AM
> Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Geocache game forces Wal-Mart evacuation
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> "Such boxes have been placed in public areas without permission as part of a
> game called geocaching, said Hudson."
>
>
>
> I guess the frisbee rule didn't apply.. Either that, ot they just don't know
> about the frisbee rule... LOL!
>
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Glenn Nash" <glenn.geocachingadmin@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "SLAGA" <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 7:57 AM
> Subject: [GeoStL] Geocache game forces Wal-Mart evacuation
>
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