Another Bomb Scare – Update January 8, 2010
Posted by kinzuakid in Education, Geocaching, In the News/Blogosphere.Tags: Bomb Scare, Bomb Threat, CBS 7, Don't Do This, LPC, Midland, PermianBasin360
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Not moments after publishing the last one did I find other mentions of the story. I’m sure the WPT ID will be all over the forums so you’ll have to go there to gawk and leer.
The cache in question is Archived and it lasted a whole month. It apparently is not the first time the area has seen a Geocache as a bomb threat. That’s too bad. Here’s the other stories:
- CBS 7 News – the cacher “may face charges”.
- PermianBasin360 – they at least get a slightly better description of Geocaching and sound advice at the end
Folks, I don’t enjoy calling attention to these things but they are instructive. If you’re going to place and hide Geocaches some common sense has to be in order. A little muggle strewn action with my cloak of invisibility is fun sometimes but think about the muggles for just a minute. They’re not blind and we all (muggles and players) act stupid. This kind of thing is going to happen. It will never go away but we need to do a better job minimizing it.
Do we need to rehash “the incident” in 2008, the Don’t Do This! series or any of 10 other bomb scares?
No? Good. On with ye.
And Happy, Safe Caching!
OK, I can see why you wrote in. The previous comment on the story compared us to . . . well here, I’ll copy and past it ’cause I can’t bring myself to type it:
odessatexas wrote on Jan 8, 2010 11:37 PM:
” [geocachers] must have nothing else to do, bored, like those 22 year old skateboarders, that live with their parents, but go to the skateboard park everyday , and “can’t ” find a job, and wear them black toboggins in the summer???? “