Bomb diposal experts blew one up in Wetherby.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-14039229
one less geocache to find
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Re: one less geocache to find
We're gonna have to be more careful in future! Interesting that a few others in the area have been temporarily disabled as a result.
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Re: one less geocache to find
Love this story but find it a bit concerning that a policeman who can authorise controlled explosions in an urban area because of terrorist threats has never heard of geocaching.
I would have thought it was the sort of thing they would cover in police "things that look like terrorist threats but aren't" courses. Geocaches are so widespread now that a senior police officer not considering them and checking the main geocaching websites when confronted with a "someone behaving suspiciously and hiding a small plastic box and fiddling with his phone" scenario doesn't think of geocaches. It was on the main geocaching.com website. Link to the cache here.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... wp=GC2H9A2
I would have thought it was the sort of thing they would cover in police "things that look like terrorist threats but aren't" courses. Geocaches are so widespread now that a senior police officer not considering them and checking the main geocaching websites when confronted with a "someone behaving suspiciously and hiding a small plastic box and fiddling with his phone" scenario doesn't think of geocaches. It was on the main geocaching.com website. Link to the cache here.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... wp=GC2H9A2
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Re: one less geocache to find
What concerns me is what did the police caution him for, and why on earth did he accept it (I'm less than convinced I'd accept a caution for finding and replacing a geocache).
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I agree. I wouldn't want this on a police record and would have argued vociferously and with a solicitor if necessary that I had been doing nothing illegal and the fact that someone else thought geocaching looked suspicious and the police had never heard of it wasn't my fault. The policeman said the caution "may affect his career" or something like that.
The only person who should have been cautioned was the geocache owner if he hadn't got permission for the placement cache from the owners of that bit of land.
On the geocaching.com website there is a thread on a forum giving details of loads of geocaches that have been blown up, mainly in America.
The only person who should have been cautioned was the geocache owner if he hadn't got permission for the placement cache from the owners of that bit of land.
On the geocaching.com website there is a thread on a forum giving details of loads of geocaches that have been blown up, mainly in America.
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The thing about "things that look like terrorist threats but aren't" is that the bad guys change to make their threats look like thing things that look like threats but aren't and your back to square 1.
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Re: one less geocache to find
pigweed wrote:The thing about "things that look like terrorist threats but aren't" is that the bad guys change to make their threats look like thing things that look like threats but aren't and your back to square 1.
Maybe - but surely it would be more straightforward for them to make their threats look like things that aren't threats - after all there are a lot more of those to choose from.
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