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Oh joy! Adding to the good news stories, our missing coin reappeared in a cache that was actually not too far from the one from whence it vanished. Someone found it today in a different area, then dropped it and logged it. Hurray!
Whoever grabbed it never logged it out, never mentioned taking it. I emailed all who’d been to that cache since it was placed. No one remembered it, but maybe someone found it in their stash and dropped it in this other one for people to find.
It happens. We’re just glad to see it’s getting to travel again.
We lost fifteen coins all in a couple of days. They were all new releases. Five of the coins were from our own caches and disappeared within 24 hours of dropping them and no logs of anyone being there during the time we dropped them and the next person saying they were not there. We have now started drilling and tagging all new coins we are putting out and hope this solves the collecter in our area from taking them.
My rules on geocoin placement is to only place them in 3+ stage multis, puzzle caches with 3 or higher difficulty, and traditionals with terrain 3 or higher. Placing coins in TB Hotels and easy traditionals is just asking for them to be stolen by these leaches. (Note that drilled coins are the exception to this rule, but most people don’t want to drill their coins.)
bugsmasher, that’s just terrible! We released another coin today, but in a cache that is pretty of out of the way. I think it may have a terrain rating of 3 as well, but around here, I’d say over half of them have at least that! LOL
It does make me angry to think someone’s out there taking advantage of the generosity of those who put coins out to share, instead of spending the cash to buy their own. May a curse fall upon them!
Power drill………….
That reminds me I have 8 to drill holes into today.
I am really sorry to hear that geocoins are disappearing. I love to find and, when appropriate, move them around.
I was in Georgia last month and drove down to Florida to watch a shuttle launch. Of course I cached down and back. I stopped at the Florida welcome center on I-95 and happened upon a cacher and her grandson looking for the cache in the woods. We joined forces since the coordinates were a bit off and the clue was ‘near the base of a large tree’. The coordinates put us in the middle of a forest with the trees all relatively the same size. We started a spiral search and found the cache 30′ from ground zero according to my GPSr, 60′ from hers.
The cache was new and had been liberally stocked with TBs. I found the one I was interested in (one whose goal was compatible with my travel plans). The woman and her grandson each grabbed one also, but he made a comment that gave me pause. I made a casual comment like, you know that’s a travel bug, don’t you? His response was ‘What’s that?’ I gave a quick lesson on travel bugs, but I still wonder if the one he took (and the one she took?) were ever moved along.
Now if I could just find a Red Jeep 😉
Steve, There’s a red jeep in one of ours right now. You’ve got to work to get it, though. GC126RC
Cool to see the shuttle launch, too.
Thanks for the heads up on the Red Jeep. I’ve been under the weather since my trip south (7-8 weeks of bronchitis). I’ve finally kicked it, but now my wife has it (although we’ve already started her on the antibiotics that helped me finally). Anyway, I haven’t done much caching lately and probably won’t for a few weeks. I’ve added it to my watch list. We’re hoping to come to the La Crosse area for a weekend jaunt in August. If so, I may have to go hunting for it on may way through.
The shuttle launch was great! Too short, though.
Thieves are striking again.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=1f7d3301-b1b8-43e6-9851-dc71756f2998
I also noticed several coins missing in the Bristol Woods caches. Why must people do this? 🙄
-J
IMO its either a newbie who doesnt understand – or someone who goes to caches JUST to steal coins. (Because obviously, at least as far as we all know they are not logging the find)
Im pretty disgusted. We had coins go missing from new caches we planted, our home cache, etc…
We finally brought our TB/Coin box INSIDE and only make those available when we are home (which is most of the time) but at least we know who took a particular bug or coin. This method has worked, but its a shame that its necessary.
I think its time to bait someone. Sad, but true. Id love to catch them in the act.
@cinemaboxers wrote:
We finally brought our TB/Coin box INSIDE and only make those available when we are home (which is most of the time) but at least we know who took a particular bug or coin. This method has worked, but its a shame that its necessary.
I’m going to have to do something like this too I guess. Someone came to the TB hotel on my property and stole all the bugs (though none were coins at the time). It just made me ill.
Ba Dah Dum Dum Dum, another coin bites the dust…
Yeah, another on gone. TyeDyeSkyCrew’s Good Deed Coin has gone missing. It was last seen in Arizona at the Grand Canyon in April. 🙁
I have been trying to track down a travel bug of mine, the I Quit travel bug, because it has significant personal meaning to me. It had been placed by a relatively new cacher into a cache that is often used to teach students about geocaching. I sent out 18 e-mails this evening to the students and teacher that logged the cache that day, and received about 4 replies so far, with one hopeful lead. I’m hoping that I can either retrieve the bug, or get it into circulation again. Keeping my fingers crossed…
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