Looks like they had an interesting weekend up in Orillia. It seems someone brought a geocache into the local OPP detachment claiming they’d found a bomb. Listening to chat among some of the local geocachers, seems to indicate that a ‘muggle‘ may have spotted a relatively new geocacher replacing the hide.
As the cache was in a PVC pipe the muggle probably assumed it to be a pipe bomb, although why someone would bomb a tree is a question. The other part of the question is, why on earth they would pick up something that they thought was a bomb and transport it 5 km away to the Police department? Fortunately this one was harmless.
This isn’t the first time Geocachers have been demonized in this area, as another geocache was cited as causing geocachers to be digging holes in a historic church cemetery. The cache in question was a virtual cache. While digging is generally frowned upon, in this case the cache involved reading a plaque. The holes were more likely caused by local wildlife looking for a meal.
As more geocaches are placed, this is going to become more of a problem in the future.
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