Treasure Hunter or the Hunted
Over 3 years ago a Sun collegue of mine described Geocaching to me. It is good fun when you have some kids to entertain and it is good exercise. The basic premise is you use your GPS device along with the coordinates / clues to find a "geocache". Once you find it you can sign the log and some caches have "treasure" inside. These are usually trinkets that are of little or no value, but kids love it since you never know what you may find, and you always bring along something to leave behind if you take something out. I have gone a few times when nieces and nephews are in town, or as a good diversion for my son. I have had a few interesting adventures hunting for geocaches including a runin with an armadillo.
The reason for this post is a very interesting article last week in our town newspaper, titled: "Suspicious Device Found in Murphy".
The Murphy Police Department was notified by a US Postal Service employee of a suspicious device that had been attached to a US Postal Service mail depository box .....
The result was the deployment of a robot with a disruptor unit and a certified bomb technician to the scene and the device was rendered inoperable.
A closer examination of the device found the item to be part of a Geocaching game.....
I have only tried to find existing geocaches, never created a new one, but it seems that if you do created one of your own, use common sense when placing it. The article ends with the following:
if the person(s) responsible for today's events are successfully identified, they could be facing both criminal and civil penalties.