Yet another bomb scare…

[CodeJunkie]

Barney Fife
or
Stewart Pidass (who goes by “Stu” not “Stewart”).

[gotta run]

I don’t believe the container was detonated in this instance.

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[Trekkin and Birdin]

Before this gets too much farther down the road (and downhill), let’s look at how this incident can be turned around to be a positive thing for the local law enforcement in the area. Todd has already helped by stopping in and sharing the information that will hopefully be passed along. Another thread asks about educating the various agencies, and I looked back into the thread in which the information card was discussed, and though it was approved and quotes for printing were obtained, I’m not sure if it went beyond that point. This incident is perhaps a good reminder to continue with that effort, which it sounds like many of our members have already done on their own.

In an area the size of the greater Green Bay metro, in times when budgets and staff are being pinched, monitoring geocaching and the like is probably not a big priority in the grand scheme. I’d like to think these little episodes can offer a small window of opportunity to help inform those who are charged with protecting and serving. Thanks to those of you who’ve already taken that initiative.

[labrat_wr]

The Brown County Bomb Squad detonated a small film canister that was found outside Cormier Elementary School in Ashwaubenon Tuesday afternoon.

gotta assume that they blew it up – the news people are never wrong, are they??? 🙄

Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.

[glorkar]

I think it’s great that we can count on quick action to dangerous circumstances. However, as previously mentioned, budgets and money are a major issue. Something tells me it would have been cheaper and easier to check a web page than sending out the bomb squad.

[DeputyDog]

Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if a bunch of new cachers spawn from this. Obviously people are going to be interested in finding out what this geocaching thing is that was mentioned in all the articles. Once they read up on it, who knows. I don’t think they would have detonated it otherwise they would not have known it was a geocache since it was just a log in a film canister.

[gotta run]

My bad; they did blow it up. ~Poof!~

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[DeputyDog]

Unfortunately I just got an alert on my watchlist of a cache being archived. Looks like tkks pulled all theirs. Sorry to see them go.

[bigguy-pmurk]

The cops around here are completely without a clue. About 2 months ago, I was on an FTF run for a new cache out by the jail and BCMHC when I was detained by two cops. They stopped me for about a half an hour to lecture me on how I looked suspicious, and that I was only going to get one warning to stay away from that area, and how I should post a note on the geocaching website so people would know to stay away from that area. The one was from Allouez, and he mentioned how there was something like this that the police had blown up in a park about a year ago, and how people didn’t learn from that. Apparently it was the Super Troopers that had a tough time wrapping their gourds around this one.

[The Happy Hodag!]

This is what I came in here to find out. TKKS, I live withing walking distance of three of your caches, and will be doing cache maintence on another tomorrow if you’d like me to help in retrieving any containers.

-The Happy Hodag!

The buck stops here. . .and gets entered into Where's George.

Where's George? Stimulating the economy one EMS'ed dollar at a time.

[rcflyer2242]

Its a shame that it had to come to archiving caches. I just hope that they are all retrived before any of them are found and more blown up.
Haste makes waste and I hope the CO was not hastey in their choice to quit the game.

[gotta run]

@bigguy-pmurk wrote:

He mentioned how there was something like this that the police had blown up in a park about a year ago, and how people didn’t learn from that.

Wow. Just wow. That is frightening.

Though I will say bigguy, you do look mighty suspicious… 😆

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[The Happy Hodag!]

Since the one in Allouez was brought up. . .

About a month or so ago, I crossed paths with an Allouez Village Trustee who also happens to live across the street from the park in question, and we were talking about the cache that was blown up there. From what he had told me, one of his neighbors had some friends over that morning, and one of the friends saw someone suspicious and decided to investigate. I wonder if it was a similar scenario in Ashwaubenon.

-The Happy Hodag!

The buck stops here. . .and gets entered into Where's George.

Where's George? Stimulating the economy one EMS'ed dollar at a time.

[Todd300]

I haven’t heard back from the police yet but it doesn’t mean I won’t.

I do know this – I’m done with urban caching and will stick to the woods. Yes my numbers will go down, but there is no doubt in mind this will happen again and I do not want to go through this again.

This incident has pretty much soured me on geocaching. I went to Iron Mountain today for a bowling coaches meeting, but even though I downloaded a PQ, I didn’t bother to load the GPS. I went to the meeting and went back home. I wasn’t in the mood to go goecaching period.

I will be following TKKS’s lead and will be archiving my caches that are in muggle city. This includes most of my cemetery caches. I have a few caches in the woods that will remain. But otherwise, I will archive the others and have also canceled my plans to put out a couple caches at a park right by me.

[gilldorAFK]

How nice that everyone assumes the local law enforcement doesn’t know anything about geocaching… I actually work for Ashwaubenon Public Safety and just started geocaching in the last year. Of course it was my scheduled day off on the day of the incident, but after I read it in the paper, I did email the Lt and explained how it works. Pretty unfortunate that everyone is archiving their caches in the area (we haven’t had a chance to find them all yet), but sadly I am not surprised that certain neighborhoods call it in as “suspicious activity.” 🙁

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