Bomb scare that closed the Transitway was a geocache

Gordon Dewis blogs : **

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Thursday’s [ Metro Ottawa included a story ](http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/local/article/88439) that opened with the following:

 A suspicious package attached to a pole forced the closure of Riverside Drive and a section of Ottawa’s bus Transitway for several hours yesterday.
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That description made me think "I wonder if it was a geocache", so I popped over to the
[
 OttawaGeocaching.com forums
](http://ottawageocaching.com/forum)
to see if anyone had posted about it and sure enough, it looks like
_
 Dead End Cache
_
(
[
 GC1DT9M
](http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC1DT9M)
), now archived, was destroyed by the bomb disposal robot.  At least it was "not deemed hazardous".
  

Pictures of the geocache from some of the logs show that it was a flat metal container with a green "official geocache" sticker on it.  In other words, another opaque geocache container on a bridge reported to the police as "suspicious".

Read on , including Gordon’s suggestions for avoiding this kind of thing in the future…

** Related: ** Ottawa OC Transpo Guide