Police were startled when they got a call from a man in northwest Calgary, who said he’d found a suspicious device while walking his dog.

The man was walking in the 100 block of Evanston Circle N.W. when he came across what looked like a pipe bomb.

Police responded in force, blocking off a wide section of the neighbourhood so they could safely investigate.

It was later determined that the device wasn’t a bomb, but rather a plastic cylinder with a screw-off top.

Police say it was likely a geocache hide.