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An example geocache container

The Midland Reporter Telegram website (www.mywesttexas.com) have reported how a geocache container sparked a serious security scare after being placed in a shopping centre in Northwest Midland, Texas, USA on 13th December 2009.

The unintentional hair-raising geocacher had chosen to place a cache in a busy shopping centre, to challenge other cachers wanting to add to their cache count in an area busy with muggles (members of the public who don't know about geocaching).

Doing all the right things to ensure no-one would unearth his cache within minutes of placing it, the cacher was careful to look around and wait for a suitable time to place the cache inside one of of car park's lighting poles. Despite the care and attention paid, he inadvertantly drew attention to himself, with a member of staff at the Academy Sports and Outdoors store reporting his "suspicious" behaviour to local police.

Upon arrival at the scene, police, fire, EMS, FBI and ICE officials sealed off the area and ordered customers to remain inside the store while they used robots to inspect the unidentified object - reported to be a small plastic tube wrapped in traditional camouflage.

Following the high-drama incident, a police representative explained that this had not been the first time they had dealt with a reported suspicious package only to find out it was one of over 969,000 caches to have been placed across the world.

While geocaching across the world relies on players hiding new geocaches for other players to find, this story emphasises the need to exercise a bit of common-sense when planning to put a new cache down!

As I was looking around for my next batch of caching containers this afternoon, I stumbled across a great range of magnetic containers, available from www.cachingcontainers.com.

These neat little containers cost just $3.00 and come in a range of 5 colours to ensure a good blend when placed as a cache - ideal for urban caching where extreme stealth is required to avoid being discovered by muggles. Cachingcontainers particularly recommend the grey textured container for "blending right into street lamp poles and metal railings".

At just 10mm x 10mm x 11mm, this is one of the smallest geocaches I've ever come across - even for a nano!

This series of geocache containers is available in either red, brown, grey texture, black or green and comes complete with one(1) pre-loaded and one(1) replacement nano log, so you can get straight out there as soon as the postman delivers them!

See the full product range at: www.cachingcontainers.com/sf/Nano_Geocache_Containers

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