Where: Port Stanley, Ontario
What: OPP bomb squad blew up suspicious package
When: March 8 2012
Why: suspicious package with wire reported to police
Container: peanut butter jar camo covered 
Size: listed as regular
Location: hanging in tree by wire
News link: 
http://www.stthomastimesjournal.com/2012/03/07/bomb-scare-in-port-stanley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwcvSE-64ZM


Description: In tree near a parking lot and the main bridge in town across from a restaurant with patio/balcony seating and large windows. Tourist beach town.

Big Bridge Surprise

Where: Mississauga, Ontario
What: a micro placed in an evergreen in the parking lot of Walmart headquarters
When: 08/24/2010
Why: suspicious package reported by Walmart office employee
Container: ??
Size: micro
Location:  parking lot in Walmart headquarters
Forum link: 
http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=258319

Description: 
Detonated by Peel Regional Police's bomb squad. Private property. Walmart Centre employee parking lot. No permission.

Bullwinkle Has a New Gig

Not a bomb squad cache
Where: Don Mills area of Toronto, ON
What: Damage to a hedge
When: May 2010
Size: small
Location:  In the hedge of private property on residential street. No permission.

Description: Damage caused by cache placement. A big hole occurred in the hedge after about 10 finds. The CO did not get permission.



Chalet-Ernest Corner

Where: Tudhope Memorial Park, Orillia, Ontario
What: Found and turned into police station
When: October 2008
Container: PVC pipe covered in camo tape
Size: small
Location:  Park by a tree

Description: 
Muggles found this cache by accident and delivered it to a nearby police station. Police thought that the PVC container wrapped in camo tape might be explosive so the area was evacuated for about four hours while the bomb squad investigated..

COG Series #3: Levis-Pedis Secutus

Jacques-Cartier Bridge, Montreal, Quebec
Micro on a bridge; confiscated by police.

September 1, 2004. This cache was confiscated when geocachers were detected by surveillance cameras and confronted by police after finding the cache on a bridge.

CoinCache

NA log: Peel Police have been notified in regards to this cache, the lack of permission from the Federal Government for it to be placed, as well as the trespassing by the CO in order to place and maintain it. 

Credit River - Ridgetown (Ship Graveyard)

Ottawa, Ontario
July 2008
"Mysterious box" on overpass. Bomb squad. Dead end, indeed.
Flat metal container with a green "official geocache" sticker on it.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/gallery.aspx?guid=7e401920-84d3-4c33-8a89-5ec0fc15a889
http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=200000

Dead End Cache

Ottawa, Ontario
November 14, 2004
Gnome in a tower with an ammo can in a net at the base of the branch tower. Someone got concerned about the ammo stencil on the ammo box. This cache was collected by the NCC conservation people. No bomb squad was called in.


GAG 5 - Gnome's Lookout

Juan de Fuca Recreation Centre, Victoria, British Columbia
May 2012
Media story: "The object looked like a pipe capped at both ends." Bomb squad.

Gingers Walk #7

United Sea Food, Montreal, Quebec
January 2011
micro
Near a parking lot. By a seafood plant. 
Appears to have been a micro placed a few yards from the corner of a building. The description says, "Please be discrete during business hours." Bomb squad blew it up.

SÉRIE L’ÉPICERIE NO 3 – LES FRUITS DE MER

Residential area, Toronto, Ontario
May 2012
Media story: "For more than three hours, emergency units investigated a suspected pipe bomb taped to a lamppost in an exclusive west-end neighbourhood"
"More than two hours later, investigators determined the object posed no threat to the public"
http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=295422

Urban Island

Canadian caches from the "Bad Ideas, Bomb Scares, etc." bookmark list by dbrierley

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