Maybe a bridge wasn't the smartest place to play this game

It's all fun and games until the bomb squad shows up.

While conducting a routine inspection on September 27, an Idaho Department of Transportation inspector noticed something strange on the Rainbow Bridge, located 13 miles south of Cascade on Highway 55. A green bucket held in place with a system of ropes and wires was suspiciously perched underneath one of the struts of the bridge. To be safe, the Boise bomb squad was called in and the highway was closed, stopping traffic for almost seven hours.

Around 2:15 p.m., 33-year old Scot Tintsman from Meridian showed up at the scene to tell police that the object was a "geocache." The bomb squad was called off, the bucket removed and traffic resumed just before 4 p.m. with travelers wondering, "What the heck is a geocache?"

Geocaching is a popular sport--some call it a hobby--where players use handheld Global Positioning System (GPS) units to locate containers stashed in the wilderness and secret urban locations. With technology prices dropping and companies making smaller hand-held GPS units, more and more people are enjoying this modern technological version of a scavenger hunt. But a sport this young still experiences growing pains and players still struggle to learn the rules of the game.