An American couple may face felony charges for inducing public panic after their new geocache sparked a three-hour bomb alert.
Category Archive: Bomb Scares
Allo, Allo, Allo, I Know What’s Going On ‘Ere …
A clever English bobby averted the latest geocaching-related bomb scare yesterday.
Guest Post: ‘Great, Now I’m That Guy …’
GUEST POST American blogger Jesse Lunsford (GC handle: Memfis Mafia) confesses a mind-blowing secret for It’s Not About The Numbers. “I just had my first run-in with the law. The final stage of my first multi-cache was the subject of a suspicious package call. Crap, I just became that guy. The one we all make fun …
Stormy Weather Cache Hinders Bomb Squad
While most officials on America’s east coast were readying for Hurricane Sandy, emergency services in Florida’s Palm Beach were dealing with the nation’s latest geo-bomb scare. According to TV channel WPBF 25 News, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office bomb squad was called to the neighbourhood of Boynton Beach about 12.20pm after a report of a …
‘Grenade’ Cache Confuses Bomb Squad
Do any of these bison tubes look like a grenade to you? One certainly did to members of the Washington State Patrol Bomb Squad responding to a “suspicious-looking” container last Sunday. The aluminum geocache - which looked like “a military-style grenade” - was found in Woodland, in a forested area northeast of the city which straddles Clark and Cowlitz …
Fear Not, Dayton’s Finest Are On The Cache …
And the prize for the least geo-aware American law agency goes to … Ohio’s Dayton Police Department. On Monday night, the city’s bomb squad seized and detonated a “fake pipe bomb”. No shock there considering the number of geocache-related bomb scares these days … But while local players have been busy discussing the demise of GC3A5J5 …
Novice Geocacher’s Second Hide Bombs
He may have caused a bomb scare at his hometown cemetery but American geocacher Chris Franich is still dead keen on his new hobby. On Wednesday, Franich’s latest hide – GC3N5W0 For All The Fallen – in Worthington, Indiana was reported as being a possible explosive. Police were dispatched to Worthington Cemetery before 10.30am to …
Another Benchmark Geo-Bomb Scare
Just when you thought it was safe to return to GZ, another geo-bomb scare has been reported – this time in the American state of Virginia. According to local broadcaster NBC29, Virginia State Police responded to a so-called suspicious package at the Virginia Department of Transportation Workers’ Memorial on Sunday. Investigators say visitors at the …
Twilight Zone: Geocacher Finds Bomb, Not Cache
It what seems to be an odd twist on the geocache/bomb relationship, a player near Neustadt Weinstraße in Germany has stumbled upon what appears to be a bomb. After posting the photo in imgur.com earlier today, the comments have been running hot in the associated reddit thread. Reddit user eodtech1 noted: “Looks to be a GP ‘Old …
Explosion Of Bad Publicity For Geocaching
Not one, but two suspected pipe bombs dogged Canadian geocachers (and law enforcement agencies) this week. VICTORIA A quiet Saturday afternoon at work became a pipe dream for Royal Canadian Mounted Police on Vancouver Island when they responded to the country’s second geo-bomb scare in three days. Emergency crews evacuated an area near Juan de …
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