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[catherwood]

You got your treasure in my infrastructure

[Nighthawk]

Ok, so whenever I decide to put a geocache somewhere, I'll make it pipebomb-looking and I'll add some wires and a clock just for kicks...

*sigh*

[lifegospel]

Thanks for sharing the info, from what I've heard, mistaking geocaches for bombs and explosive devices is nothing new.

...It causes me no end of enjoyment to read links like these, neurotypicals are so stupid sometimes. (No offense meant to any NT's reading this, you guys play ARGs, so you're SMART )

[thebruce]

I know that law enforcement agencies are being informed of geocaching - around here they have been at least... I wouldn't be surprised if they have access to first check on bomb scares to see if there's any geocache at the reported location, then respond accordingly.
Which is another reason why Groundspeak has and strongly recommends geocache ettiquette and placement guidelines, specifically to avoid situations like that Unfortunately, there's always someone...

[Rogi Ocnorb]

A couple of years back, one of the Northern California law enforcement agencies blew-up a geocache knowing with almost absolute certainty that it was, in fact, a geocache. (They'd checked it out on a previous call.)

Sometimes... Ya just gotta blow stuff up.

I'd be surprised to find out that checking geocaching.com, letterboxing.info, etc. isn't on their to-do list when responding to a possible bomb.