+RosiesDaddyBear Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 (edited) http://m.echo-news.co.uk/news/14303411.Basildon_park_put_on_lockdown_after_dog_walker_finds_toy_grenade_and_calls_police/ Geocache mistaken for a grenade! Edited February 26, 2016 by RosiesDaddyBear Quote Link to comment
+noncentric Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 (edited) Is the picture in the link the actual item that was reported as a "grenade"? A large bison with "Official Geocache" stamped onto it doesn't resemble any grenade I've ever seen on television or in movies. And I'm pretty sure grenades aren't painted in camo colors. If that picture was the actual item that was found and reported, then it would seem that the reporting party overreacted a bit. Edited February 26, 2016 by noncentric Quote Link to comment
+RosiesDaddyBear Posted February 26, 2016 Author Share Posted February 26, 2016 From what I can make out, that is the actual cache that was reported as a grenade. It doesn't look like any grenade I've seen either. I think the shape could almost look like a smoke grenade but you're right, they don't normally come in camo. Quote Link to comment
+on4bam Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 I'm so glad we have better common sense here I'm still waiting for someone to report a WP or the cache of a multi we did once. It's WW2 themed and has nice WPs like, ammocan full of empty shells (2 of them have N and E coordinates), a "fieldphone" (coordinates inside), a large shell (cannon/tank?), a missile launcher, and landmine cache. Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 "“If people are going to leave these objects lying around then it needs to be made clear that it is a toy or use a different shaped object.” You mean, as in using a label saying that it is a geocache? 1 Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 This just in: Buhl, Idaho: http://magicvalley.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/update-buhl-bomb-was-geocache-police-say/article_bb86d640-d03f-5000-b5de-0e8e03945e96.html In part (bolding mine): "While finding a geocache can often be challenging or adventurous, a Buhl city crew stumbled upon the geocache by accident about 1:15 p.m. Wednesday while grading a parking lot on the south side of Sawtooth Avenue, Stewart said. They reported it to police because it looked like a pipe bomb.“It looked so realistic,” said Buhl Police Sgt. Bill Deetz. The area where the pipe was found was on school property but far away from buildings, and there was never any threat to students, Stewart said." The cache in question was easy to find: http://coord.info/GC2T1KJ Quote Link to comment
Keystone Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 (edited) The area where the pipe was found was on school property but far away from buildings, and there was never any threat to students, Stewart said." The cache in question was easy to find: http://coord.info/GC2T1KJ Thanks for the link, knowschad. Studying that cache and its archived pre-publication reviewer notes, it's easy to tell that the cache was in a park that adjoins the school campus, called "Buhl North Park." If you open the Google maps link and use street view, you will see the park's entrance sign. That's where the cache was hidden. I was very happy to see an extensive pre-publication dialogue between the reviewer and the cache owner about caches "near" school property. The reviewer even linked to other examples where caches at or near schools have led to bomb squad callouts. I guess he has another example for his form letter. In any event the cache owner was comfortable proceeding with publication and said they chose an area far away from where children might be playing or congregating. Edited April 28, 2016 by Keystone Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 The area where the pipe was found was on school property but far away from buildings, and there was never any threat to students, Stewart said." The cache in question was easy to find: http://coord.info/GC2T1KJ Thanks for the link, knowschad. Studying that cache and its archived pre-publication reviewer notes, it's easy to tell that the cache was in a park that adjoins the school campus, called "Buhl North Park." If you open the Google maps link and use street view, you will see the park's entrance sign. That's where the cache was hidden. I was very happy to see an extensive pre-publication dialogue between the reviewer and the cache owner about caches "near" school property. The reviewer even linked to other examples where caches at or near schools have led to bomb squad callouts. I guess he has another example for his form letter. In any event the cache owner was comfortable proceeding with publication and said they chose an area far away from where children might be playing or congregating. I thought it was a good attitude of the police department: “Great practice for Twin Falls bomb squad and a safe ending for all,” Stewart said. I was sorry to see that there were no photographs in the gallery that might have showed what the container looked like. Quote Link to comment
Keystone Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 I was also hoping for a spoiler photo, or at least a description of the container in an archived reviewer note. We've seen several examples over the years where the police report says "looks like a pipe bomb" and the cache is a matchstick holder or something else other than a capped PVC pipe. Quote Link to comment
TahoeJoe Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 (edited) Looks like a pipe bomb to me especially if the geocaching sticker was facing the backside and the cache was not hidden out of sight. I think that's a risk you take placing a cache in a well traveled urban area. Perhaps the CO should have used Hello Kitty stickers on the cache instead of army camo. Edited April 28, 2016 by TahoeJoe Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 Looks like a pipe bomb to me especially if the geocaching sticker was facing the backside and the cache was not hidden out of sight. I think that's a risk you take placing a cache in a well traveled urban area. Perhaps the CO should have used Hello Kitty stickers on the cache instead of army camo. You have seen it? Did you find the cache, or have you seen pictures? I agree with Keystone that I have also seen "pipe bomb" caches that sure didn't look much like a pipe bomb to my understanding of what a pipe bomb should look like. In fact, I was LTF on one cache that got blown up. It was a pill bottle hung from a tree by a piece of bailing wire. It was reported that it looked like it had a fuse. Quote Link to comment
+Lil Devil Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 There are two different caches being discussed in this thread. A large bison described by a paranoid muggle as a "grenade" and an unknown container described as a "pipe bomb." I think TahoeJoe is confusing the two. Quote Link to comment
+noncentric Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 (edited) Looks like a pipe bomb to me especially if the geocaching sticker was facing the backside and the cache was not hidden out of sight. I think that's a risk you take placing a cache in a well traveled urban area. Perhaps the CO should have used Hello Kitty stickers on the cache instead of army camo. Where did you find a photo of the Idaho geocache? Edited April 28, 2016 by noncentric Quote Link to comment
TahoeJoe Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 There are two different caches being discussed in this thread. A large bison described by a paranoid muggle as a "grenade" and an unknown container described as a "pipe bomb." I think TahoeJoe is confusing the two. I was referring to Basildon park put on lockdown after dog walker finds toy grenade and calls police. The camo and string coming out of the top of the cache makes it look questionable. If it were my cache I would have picked a more discrete container. Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 There are two different caches being discussed in this thread. A large bison described by a paranoid muggle as a "grenade" and an unknown container described as a "pipe bomb." I think TahoeJoe is confusing the two. I was referring to Basildon park put on lockdown after dog walker finds toy grenade and calls police. The camo and string coming out of the top of the cache makes it look questionable. If it were my cache I would have picked a more discrete container. Ooooh! I apologize... I bumped a thread from February to host my new bomb scare story. You were responding to an older post. Sorry about the confusion. Quote Link to comment
TahoeJoe Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 I added to the confusion by not being more specific. Quote Link to comment
+J Grouchy Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 “It was a container and we opened it up on site. There were four pennies inside.” Cheapskate cachers! Quote Link to comment
+jellis Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 No offense to Reviewers but I've recently seen some get published on school fences. I brought one up to the reviewer who said "the fence seem tall enough" only from Google Earth. There is no defined rule for distance from schools. Quote Link to comment
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