RE: [Az-Geocaching] FW: FYI

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: kenh199@cox.net
    To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
    Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 8:33 AM
    Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] FW: FYI
    I have contacted the bomb technicians in Tempe and let them know about
our hobby. They advised me that the information is being passed along by
various bomb a technicians but it will take a bit of time for all of the
bomb squads to become aware. My advice is if you use the ammo cans, or
anything else that might be even remotely been interpreted as a possible
bomb to clearly label it on the outside as a geocache. In my opinion clear
tupperware type containers are the best in an urban environement. This
allows the bomb technician, or anyone else, to visually examine the contente
without having to break out the x-ray equipment or robots.
    Also think carefully about the placement of the cache. There is one in
Tempe that is very near a school. Schools are very sensitive places and you
are just asking for trouble by inviting people near them that give the
outward appearance of loitering, or aimlessly wandering about.
    WhereRWee?
    Ken
    >
    > From: "Team Tierra Buena" <teamtierrabuena@earthlink.net>
    > Date: 2002/09/11 Wed PM 08:31:11 EDT
    > To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
    > Subject: [Az-Geocaching] FW: FYI
    >
    > What's also interesting about the email below is that it was forwarded
    > to me by Mary Estes of the State Parks Department. You may recall from
    > my earlier messages that Mary is in charge of the Site Steward
program.
    >
    > Steve
    > Team Tierra Buena
    >
    >
    > Hi Everyone
    > Here is a short article that was in today's Salt Lake Tribune, a new
    > slant
    > on the hide and seek game?!    We also saw this on the TV news last
    > night.
    > Juanita and Ray
    >
    >
    >
    >    BOMB SQUAD CHECKS OUT SUSPICIOUS BOX
    >     The Salt Lake City bomb squad checked a suspicious World War
I-type
    > ammunition box at about 1550 W. 2300 North on Tuesday night. A
    > technician at a nearby sewage treatment plant saw a man in a pickup
drop
    > the box at the side of the road at 8 p.m. After opening the box at
10:30
    > p.m., police found pictures of a dog and a wedding and a logbook. The
    > box was left by someone who participates in "geocaching," a global
    > scavenger hunt using global positioning systems to find items, said
    > Detective Dwayne Baird. The box was left in a field near two oil
    > refineries and the sewage plant. Police have yet to contact the person
    > who left the box.
    >
    > Steve again: This was the entire story. I also found it online at
    > http://www.sltrib.com/2002/sep/09112002/utah/5094.htm.
    >
    >
    What's also interesting about the email below is that it was forwarded
to me by Mary Estes of the State Parks Department. You may recall from my
earlier messages that Mary is in charge of the Site Steward program.
    Steve
    Team Tierra Buena
      Hi Everyone
      Here is a short article that was in today's Salt Lake Tribune, a new
slant
      on the hide and seek game?!    We also saw this on the TV news last
night.
      Juanita and Ray
         BOMB SQUAD CHECKS OUT SUSPICIOUS BOX
          The Salt Lake City bomb squad checked a suspicious World War
I-type ammunition box at about 1550 W. 2300 North on Tuesday night. A
technician at a nearby sewage treatment plant saw a man in a pickup drop the
box at the side of the road at 8 p.m. After opening the box at 10:30 p.m.,
police found pictures of a dog and a wedding and a logbook. The box was left
by someone who participates in "geocaching," a global scavenger hunt using
global positioning systems to find items, said Detective Dwayne Baird. The
box was left in a field near two oil refineries and the sewage plant. Police
have yet to contact the person who left the box.
    Steve again: This was the entire story. I also found it online at
http://www.sltrib.com/2002/sep/09112002/utah/5094.htm.

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