Yet another bomb scare…

[gotta run]

@Todd300 wrote:

But I do want to hear from the Green Bay Metro area geocachers if they have started any dialogue with the Green Bay Metro area police departments and get them informed about geocaching.

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Perhaps a new thread can be started on any progress of any dialogue between the geocaching community and the local LEO’s not just in Green Bay, but in other communities as well.

This is something that the Community Education Committee is currently and actively working on with the GBPD, the Ashwaubeon PD which has its own force, and the Brown County Sheriff’s Office which provides police to many of the villages that surround GB.

So, everyone stay tuned; it takes time for these things to play out. But I will say at this point that there is interest on the part of some departments to work together.

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[seldom|seen]

I think the committee needs to sit down and brainstorm a plan to inform and educate every municipality or county in the state. Police departments are privy to many forms of inter-departmental information sharing. I assume there is a clearinghouse for state wide issues that could be used to share information on the nature of the sport and types of containers that can be found.

If there are any officers following these threads, can you chime in and provide direction or send someone on the Education committee a PM with ideas about how to address this on a Statewide basis? Even if the committee gets everything ironed out with Ashwaubenon and Green Bay Police Depts, it doesn’t help when the Outagamie County PD explodes and ammo can a week later.

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

The Community Education Committee is discussing this topic in depth. A law enforcement brochure has been created and we are working the details of the print and distribution process. S|S, I will gladly make mention of a statewide effort in the committee, and post back updates when they are available.

[2_Stand]

It’s not just geocachers, and it’s not just here. I just read about this incident in my Lions magazine: http://www.wlfi.com/dpp/news/local/Suspicious-package-found-in-Rossville

There is a certain sense of contagious fear and paranoia that leads some people to create large snowballs where there is no snow.

[goirish75]

The best way to get the message out across statewide departments would be to contact he states attorney generals office wih our concerns, as they are the highest law enforcement body in the state, and things come down to us from there. The state attorney general sends us memos and important updates when there is something important to be shared to all law enforcement personnel. I think this is an important topic and they hopefully will feel the same way. Hope his is helpful.

[The Happy Hodag!]

@2_Stand wrote:

It’s not just geocachers, and it’s not just here. I just read about this incident in my Lions magazine: http://www.wlfi.com/dpp/news/local/Suspicious-package-found-in-Rossville

There is a certain sense of contagious fear and paranoia that leads some people to create large snowballs where there is no snow.

Seriously? 🙄

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

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

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@The Happy Hodag wrote:

@2_Stand wrote:

It’s not just geocachers, and it’s not just here. I just read about this incident in my Lions magazine: http://www.wlfi.com/dpp/news/local/Suspicious-package-found-in-Rossville

There is a certain sense of contagious fear and paranoia that leads some people to create large snowballs where there is no snow.

Seriously? 🙄

Where does the line of security end and the path to lunacy begin. Seriously is right, did they actually need ALL of these depts to respond to a small suspicious device? Wouldn’t two or three individuals from the bomb squad and a couple additional law enforcement personal to manage the scene be sufficient? I mean wholly crap people, what’s gonna happen when there’s a bone fide bomb scare with a REAL series of suspicious packages placed? The only thing missing was a call from the Governor to the ARNG!

…”The Clinton County Sheriffs, the Rossville Town Marshal, and the Indiana State Police Bomb Squad responded to the scene, along with Rossville Fire, Rossville EMS, NIPSCO Gas, Duke Energy, and the town of Rossville’s Street Department…”

Imagine, all of those public servants (and some private I see) responding in a matter of minutes to this psuedo-crisis, converging en masse to the psuedo-scene. Wonder how many news crews were there?

Now, picture very few to no public servants responding for many hours, days even, to the Katrina disaster. How many died as a result? And we respond this significantly to a minute suspicious device? Christ, even if it was a real bomb this response is overkill.

I know I’m part socialist, but this kinda lop-sided public good garbage news generation gets my conservative dander up! (that one’s for you GR).

[gotta run]

Judas Priest, we are completely screwed. If they’re going to blow up hearing aids left in a bank, what possible chance to we have with an ammo can????

Oh, BTW, just PART socialist? That’s the understatement of the year…. 😛

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[The Pirate Monkies]

We shouldn’t paint all cops with the same brush, every department has its good and bad people, as referenced by ruaufo1 in his log for my now archived GC2G0Q1…

[gotta run]

@Todd300 wrote:

Perhaps a new thread can be started on any progress of any dialogue between the geocaching community and the local LEO’s not just in Green Bay, but in other communities as well.

Just FYI to anyone watching this topic, a new thread has been spun with an update:

http://wi-geocaching.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=12025

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[JimandLinda]

I guess the Marshfield Bomb Squad got to stretch their legs a few days ago, too, according to “Wisconsin Outdoor Fun”.

So if that’s your cache in Wildwood Park, along the walking trail, shaped like a pipe, you may have a NM log soon! 😯

[RSplash40]

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I’ve done two in that park but neither were a pipe like container that I recall.

[rcflyer2242]

Sounds like it was GC2W7VE. It even says on the page that it is a PVC pipe and is part of a series.

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