[Az-Geocaching] Fw: hazards of Geocaching

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Author: George Harris
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Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Fw: hazards of Geocaching
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>
> Lovell Canyon Road (Forest Service), NV – Assist Other Agency with
> Suspicious
> Package
> On November 30, 2008, at approximately 1530 hours, a BLM Red Rock Ranger
> was
> notified by a Metro ARMOR Officer of a report of a mannequin in camouflage
> clothes,
> sitting in a tree holding a suitcase with a tag reading “Oops”. The
> mannequin was in the
> same area on Forest Service land located at Lovell Canyon, where 30 pipe
> bombs were
> located two months earlier. The Red Rock Ranger, being closest to the
> incident site, was
> asked to make contact with the reporting party. The Ranger arrived on
> scene
> and located
> the mannequin but the mannequin was not in the same area where the pipe
> bombs were
> previously found. The next day, December 1, 2008, the Metro ARMOR division
> and the
> bomb squad responded to the area and remotely detonated the mannequin and
> suitcase.
> It was later discovered the mannequin and suitcase were part of a
> geo-caching spot.
> Contact: SAC, NV.
>
> Jon Young
> Law Enforcement Ranger #241
> U.S. Department of the Interior - Bureau of Land Management


>
> "A vote is like a rifle; it's usefulness depends upon the character of the
> user." --Teddy Roosevelt



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