STERLING, Colo.—A man who threw a canister into a bush near two downtown banks prompted police to call in a bomb squad, but it turned out to be just a logbook used in an Internet-based GPS game.
A witness reported seeing the man stash what looked like an ammunition container Thursday afternoon, so police cordoned off the area and summoned a bomb squad from Greeley, 80 miles to the east.
What police found were items used in a game called Geocache, where someone hides a logbook and then posts its coordinates on a Web site. Other people then try to find it using Global Positioning Satellite receivers.
Authorities said they don’t expect to file any charges. But Police Chief Roy Brevik said he’d like to talk to the man who planted the canister.
