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[team waldron]

From the Santa Cruz Sentinel

Suspicious object found at UCSC's main entrance

SANTA CRUZ - A "suspicious object" found this morning at the main entrance of UC Santa Cruz at Bay and High streets was detonated just before noon.

Around 8:30 a.m., a UCSC employee spotted the object and alerted the authorities, prompting police to shut down the entrance to campus and evacuate nearby homes and campus buildings, including a child care center, for three hours.
Bumper-to-bumper traffic made up of cars and buses trying to get to campus were rerouted to the west entrance on Empire Grade.

Sean Levasseur, a student at UCSC, had gotten caught in the back-up. He had a midterm at 10 a.m. today but said he doubted he'd make it to the test on time. He said he hoped his professor would give him some "leeway."
"I hope that they don't count it against me," he said.

Campus spokesperson Jim Burns did not know what the object was but described it as "suspicious." Police officials would not say what the object appeared to be. The Santa Cruz County Bomb Team arrived around 10:40 a.m. to investigate. The crew used a water canon to detonate the object.

It was then determined to be a box associated with a hide and seek, scavenger hunt-type game for GPS users, called Geocaching. In the game, players use a Global Positioning System receiver to hide and seek containers called geocaches. The caches are typically small waterproof containers that have a logbook and "treasure," often toys or trinkets.

Just before 9 a.m., students, faculty and staff were told via text message, e-mail and voice mail to avoid the main entrance to campus. Stanley Rabut, a student at UCSC, said he awoke to three text messages from the university around 10 a.m. alerting him to the situation. "It's a lot of hoopla over nothing," Rabut said after hearing the disruption was caused by a game.

[delboy1203]

he awoke to three text messages from the university around 10 a.m.

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Bloody students!!

[setsujoku]

Guess the cache wasn't as water proof as they claim that all caches supposedly are.

[Zytheran]

Pretty easy to find the cache using Google Maps, took all of a minute.
Sounds like it was in a drain.
Yep, that's what terrorists do, blow up drains....
Stupid crusader capitalist drains, that'll teach em...

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... y&decrypt=

There are also 2 other nearby caches in drains by the same caching team. Plus a few other underground they have placed. Go Team!:D
Santa Cruz is a pretty nice place too, I was there 10 months ago.

[GeoScrubers]

Well, that is one way of keeping the muggles away from your cache <p>
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[KevL]

The crew used a water canon to detonate the object.

Detonate??
Or perhaps just quality journalism