carolinadreamer

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This here is going to be a pretty big mega event.. http://www.geowoodstock5.com/

The wife and I found a stolen motorcycle about 50 feet from a cache one day.

Whats really bad is people that have more posts then caches found. They have time to sit around and complain but dont take the time to go out and do some caching.

You log it in just like a travel bug go to the travel bug section on geocaching.com There is already a thread going on stolen and missing geocoins Go here http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=145368

I have had 2 2006 Compass Rose Geocoins stolen. They were very nice. Hated to see them gone.

Here is the vidio link http://www.channelcincinnati.com/video/973...ex.html?taf=cin

I think you need to engrave a tracking number onto the shell and turn him into a turtle bug.

Sounds like if the stealing keeps up, geocoins are going to be a thing of the past. The honest people are going to get tired of buying them only to have em stolen.

I have bought 10 new civil war geocoins. They just came in the mail yesterday. They are really nice and I would love to put em out in the wild but with so many coins being stolem I am now scared to. Might do the picture of the coin and send it out.. sounds like a great idea, but who wants to look at pictures of coins when the real thing is so much nicer. Its a shame other goecachers are spoiling it for us.

Sorry if i come off really pissed. I am just peeved. When you log in my coins it will state that the coin is to travel from cache to cache. I dont now how it is in other states but here in NC you will find a bunch of geocoins in the wild. IF you spend a day caching, chances are you will come across a geocoin. We look at em and admire em and then move em on to the next cache. We go home and enter tracking code and then we get another little pic for our stats page. If every coin is suppose to be stolen by the first person that comes to the cache then what is the purpose of haveing tackable coins?

Yes collecting coins is a common practice. People buy the coins for themselves. They usually place the coins in a coin book and they take em to meet and greets and other things like that. Usually they let other people look at the coins and let them write down the codes so they can "discover" the coins and build up their stats. As for ebay, those coins are suppose to be unactivated. Selling an activated coin is not any good to most people. You are correct on the price of the coins. They run from about 8 to 16 dollars. Thats why I am upset about it. They cost me my hard earned money. As for the geocachers that "collect" coins out of geocaches they are stealing. The coins are in fact a type of travel bug. Are we suppose to be able to take travel bugs and just keep em for ourselves? I think not. Yes I know that anything we place in a geocache is subject to being taken. There is no law against it. The coin is placed in the cache for other people to see and for the owner to track it and see how far it travels and where it travels. It is not placed in the cache for the first idiot to come around to take and keep it. unless its a FTF prize and the owner will state that in the description.

Well I have had another geocoin stolen again. You would think all geocachers are honest good people. What are they going to do with the coins? Stick em in a box and hide em from everyone. If ever i am at some kind of event and a person pulls out a bunch of coins and dont let anyone see the codes then I am going to think he or she has a bunch of stolen coins. Beleive me its going to get ugly.

I am a home brewer also. I think a beer theme cache would be great. Just state in the description that the cache is beer theme and parents with small children will have the choice of taking their children to that cache or not. Of course there can be no beer in the cache. We all like sharing our special concotions. Whether it be a great BBQ sauce or our own homemade beer. The best way to share the beer with other geocachers would be to join a local geocaching club. If there is not one then start one. Yall could have get togethers and of course you can supply some beer for it. The best brew I ever made was with apple juice. Wish I could have shared it with more people myself.

Well, all I know is my compass rose coin has been stolen. It made it around a few caches then someone took it. Maybe one day it will show back up.

I have a Legend c and i have not had any trouble with the usb downloads with it. The only trouble i have had with it is that it has locked up on my while driving down the road. It has done it about 4 times so far. I am not sure what is causing it, but only seems to do it when i drive to town so it might be some kind of radio frequency near a tower or something that is causing it. But other than that on that one stretch of road i have not had any trouble with it.