[Az-Geocaching] Box game brings out bomb squad

[RopingThe Wind]

>From: "Brian - Team A.I." <teamai@cox.net>
>Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
>To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
>Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Box game brings out bomb squad
>Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 11:40:47 -0700
>
>I posted this on the gc.com forums in a thread about a similar situation in 
>which a Disneyland cache (micro) was discovered just before an attraction 
>reopened, resulting in a delay while it was investigated:
>
>...society has been conditioned to a state of hypervigilant paranoia, 
>resulting in stupid scenarios like ammo cans being blown up under a rock 
>pile. It wouldn't matter if the ammo can was clear plexiglass, with nothing 
>more than a fully translucent logbook that made it clear the object being 
>looked at is nothing more than an object, and not an explosive device. 
>Someone would still freak out over it, and thousands of dollars would be 
>wasted. Heck, there could be a blanket understanding/approval by law 
>enforcement for a specific type of cache container that we were allowed to 
>use, and yet someone would still call and we'd find TBs blown sky high by 
>disruptors.
>
>Maybe it's just me, but I don't take everything I see as a 
>surgically-altered Osama, and freak out >everytime I see someone breathe.

maybe we should have something similar to the stupid motorist law... when 
someone freaks out and calls out the feds to check on a potential bomb or 
something... and it turns out to be a geocache or something.. then that 
person pays the bill!

Scott
Team Ropingthewind

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