[GeoStL] In The News..
- From: "James Everman" <everman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:00:02 -0500
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This came up in a news clip service I get:
(quote - from July 17 artical)
Det. Doug Stice, one of the first bomb technicians on the
scene, sent the robot out to have a look. In this very
park two years ago, Stice had answered a pipe bomb call
and found a harmless canister made to resemble a bomb and
containing clues to an Internet treasure hunt game played
with Global Positioning System devices.
He suspected this was another, and the images sent back by
the robot made him 90% sure. But that wasn't good enough.
"In today's times," Stice said, given London, and given
the state of the world, he couldn't be sure.
The bomb squad called airport police and takeoffs were
halted.
Minutes later, the robot exploded the device.
It wasn't a bomb.
In the shredded remains, I found a piece of paper with the
letters "GPS."
I don't know what kind of morons would play games with
devices made to look like bombs, but I left the scene
thinking the same thing the bomb squad often thinks.
(End quote)
The full artical is at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez17jul17,0,7947123.column
This is at the end..
Geo Jim
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