Why Do Coins Get Pinched?

[Andys101 & Redfrock]

I must admit I am at a total loss as to why people feel the need to keep somebody elses property. I can understand that coins might go missing if a cache is muggled but other than that I am stunned.

 

As you can probably tell, one of my coins has been stolen, for want of a better word and now I am worried about releasing my other coins. I didn't buy them to keep but to release and watch their journeys. I had done everything I thought necessary to make the coin unattractive to collectors. I 'defaced' it by drilling a hole through it and attaching a very specific message about what it was and it's mission, but it would seem this wasn't sufficient. The cache wasn't muggled - it is in a very well hidden spot, and when I finally got to the cache 2 months after my friend had placed there, in the hope of retrieving it and getting it moving, the cache was safe, as was all its contents. It was just my coin that had gone, and no mention in the log book that it had been retreived.

 

Unfortunately 2 other cachers coins were stolen within a 4 mile radius of this cache at around the same time. The area is fairly local to us, and there are not a huge amoung of cachers in the area.

 

So if defacing the coin isn't going to stop somebody, then what is? And just what makes these people tick???

 

Moan over.

 

edited for spelling

Edited May 21, 2006 by Andys101 & Redfrock

[the butterfly effect]

oops see below

Edited May 21, 2006 by the butterfly effect

[the butterfly effect]

I hear what you are saying and I started a cache just so people can trade coins or just stop by to see what they look like!! We never got to see a geocoin for the first year we cached and so we decided to make a cache just for that purpose SO PEOPLE CAN TRADE/MOVE COINS no one better steal them from our cache we watch it!!! geocoin trader GCVW9T so we buy coins and keep on the moving of coins!

[YemonYime]

Why Do Coins Get Pinched?

 

Same reason that butts do. There are naughty people in this world.

[+GEO*Trailblazer 1]

Andys101 & Redfrock @ May 21 2006, 11:41 AM

 

Why Do Coins Get Pinched?

 

Same reason that butts do. There are naughty people in this world.

 

I like that response.

And they will get slapped one of these days.

[+welch]

Because people are like crows, they collect shiny things to keep around the nest. There's really no function to it, but it keeps them interested. And really it isn't a problem untill they start collecting stealing things they didn't pay for.

Edited May 22, 2006 by welch

[+pdxmarathonman]

is that dead horse I smell?

[+Team 5150]

is that dead horse I smell?

 

Huh?

[+Team 5150]

Maybe you'll get lucky and the person who "borrowed" them will get a conscience and return them to a cache someday.

[+Team JSAM]

I do agree that most are stolen but I think there are some that are taken as swag not knowing what it is, I know of a cacher in my area that took a coin and had it for months until someone told him what it was and he logged it and put it in a cache.

[+pdxmarathonman]

is that dead horse I smell?

 

Huh?

This topic has been discussed beyond belief.

[Andys101 & Redfrock]

is that dead horse I smell?

 

Huh?

This topic has been discussed beyond belief.

 

well I'm sorry you feel like that, but I felt this was the appropriate place to raise the matter and possibly learn something, and maybe I haven't had the opportunity to read such a thread before.

[+Damenace]

is that dead horse I smell?

 

Huh?

This topic has been discussed beyond belief.