The Colorado Springs police bomb squad were called out to detonate a ‘suspicious package’ Monday. The package, it turns out, was part of a game called Geocaching.

The game is played all over the country, but some of the gamers are making their packages look too dangerous, according to police.

The incident started when a homeowner noticed someone suspiciously walking around near her backyard. It happened on Estebury Circle, near Research and Austin Bluffs. When the woman asked the man what he was doing he didn't respond, instead he ran away.

The woman then noticed a box buried in the dirt behind her house. It was a geocache box that was disguised.

"Geocaching is like a treasure hunt," said Deborah Ackley, an avid geocache player.

Monday’s incident was no treasure hunt for police. "[I was] surprised to see something like that going on," said neighbor Nick Buechler. His day started with a scary view from his backyard. "The [bomb] robot came along the trail."

Buechler’s neighbor found that 'suspicious package'. A short time later, after the bomb squad inspected the package, several homes along Estebury Circle were evacuated while the strange box was disposed of.

“We can't afford to take a risk, that could cost lives," said Colorado Springs Police Sgt. Steve Noblitt. He says even though this case turned out to be part of the geocaching game, a suspicious package will be treated as a major threat. "It takes a tremendous amount of resources, which cost the taxpayers of Colorado Springs quite a bit, to disarm a device."

Geocaching is a game using GPS coordinates. They’re plugged into a hand held GPS device. The player then uses them to track down the hidden treasure. "They're hidden, some of them are disguised very very well," said Ackley. She has been playing the game for years. "That kind of gives other geocachers a bad name, I think he could have said something, said something like 'hey, this is just a treasure hunt.’"

While this gaming incident may have been costly to the city, Scott Trimboli, a professor and security expert at UCCS said everyone still needs to be careful. "This is a team effort, everybody just has to heighten their powers of observation just a little bit and be aware," he said.

Police say anyone that is going to play this game should make sure the box that’s being used is clearly marked as a geocache box. They also said it’s important to talk to police to explain the game whenever officers get called out to where the game is being played.