DODGE COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) - Dodge County authorities are starting to raise concerns about geocaching -- in which players use GPS coordinates to find containers of small treasures and write about their discoveries online.
Sheriff Todd Nehls says his officers have been getting calls from people who find the geocache containers, and assume they're homemade bombs.
On Wednesday, a resident near Theresa complained that a pill bottle was duct-taped to a highway sign.
Geocaching has caught on in Wisconsin over the last decade as safe, family-friendly entertainment. And Geocache.Com lists over 15,000 hidden containers in the Beaver Dam area alone.
Nehls says non-players report the containers as signs of possible drug or terrorist activity. The sheriff says he wants geocachers to know that their pastime could be misconstrued, and lead to wasted time for law enforcement.
