| Geocaching Shuts Down Wal-Mart |
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| Geocachers - Geocaching |
| Thursday, February 26 2009 14:59 |
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Pennsylvania police evacuate a Wal-Mart after confusing geocache box for a weapon of terror Geocaching (a game where players use a GPS to find a hidden goodie box placed somewhere—usually in the wilderness—by other geocachers) catches quite a bit of flak in the hiking community, mostly because of obvious leave-no-trace issues. But on Tuesday, geocachers ran afoul of Pennsylvania police on much more serious charges: The fuzz evacuated an Oil Creek Township Wal-Mart after mistaking a black geocache box in the parking lot for a weapon of mass destruction. There were between 40 and 50 people in the Titusville Wal-Mart at the time of the police-ordered evacuation after the package was discovered, according to a Wal-Mart employee who did not want to be identified.The interesting part? Cops destroyed the box after figuring out it was used for geocaching. Guess somebody hates geocachers even more than hardcore leave-no-trace hikers. The saddest part? Right now, there's probably some hapless geocacher staring alternately at his Garmin and a hole in the asphalt, yelling to the heavens, "WHERE IS IT?!"
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