idratherbesurfing

I found a chewed up lolly stick (paper stick, that had at somepoint had candy attached to it) in one cash. a half eaten jaffa cake and a stone in another?!!!!

no tools were needed to remove the sign. it was held on with four small smooth nails, that simply pulled straight off, to reveal the cache in the hole behind the sign. My whole point to posting this topic, was to ask whether we should need to remove signs off fence posts (with tools or otherwise) in order to find caches.... From what I can gather, the general concensus is a firm NO! So, should this cache be allowed? as to all intents and purposes, encourages vandalism? What if people go around just randomly pulling signs off fenceposts, "just in case" a cache is behind one of them!

If the cache owner owns the sign, it's OK. Bad form, but OK. My question is. What inspired you to remove the sign? I would never deface private (or public) property to find a cache. A smiley just isn't important enough for me to disassemble stuff that doesn't belong to me. Yes I guess they do own the sign. This cache is in Wales, UK, and the sign displayed a national park name for a national park in England UK. Thats how I spotted it. Why did I remove it? well the one corner of the sign had been cracked by a previos finder, so my thought was "aha! this has been pulled off before" so I just pulled it off, and there it was....

found a nanocache today, which involved having to remove a sign from a fencepost, as the cache was hidden actually BEHIND the sign in a hole drilled in the post surely this is along the same lines as 'burying'? and even is borderline on vandalising.... due to having to pull signs off fenceposts??? from confused of wales

i have the original type extrex. it does ok for geocaching, but at times it does make a little more 'interesting;

Ive just had two refused, as they are too close together (although they are 6000ft apart, as the crow flies, so is within the giudelines) and both are said to be on sites of special scientific interest (SSSI) im in wales, uk. ive checked on magic mapping, and one of them definitely isnt on SSSI . The other cache is on SSSI though, so I will find a new place for it tomorrow