Protect your coins from the Pirate

[+fireman121]

I have added this message to all of my geocoins and TB due to the Geocoin Pirate.

 

Due to recent Geocoin Pirate activities in the Missouri area pillaging caches for coins, I am asking that all of my Geocoins and Travel bugs stay clear of Missouri. Thanks Fireman121

[+BlueDeuce]

Good luck with that.

[+fireman121]

It can't hurt!

[57chevy]

Not a bad idea, at least for the Columbia area. FYI.. Eartha informed me earlier that the thief had been banned.

[+fireman121]

Great…. Now if he would just deposit the coins in a nearby cache ever thing would be fine.

[+ArtieD]

Silly idea...but hey...do what you will...

[avroair]

Coin thieves are everywhere... I have had coins go missing in Arizona, Hawaii, Oregon, Canada, New Jersey, Ohio and California so there is not really a single spot to avoid. Can't hurt but I don't expect it to help much.

[+BlueDeuce]

I do think that fireman121 is on to something, I just don't know that specifying to avoid a location will protect it that much, or prevent it from going there, or him being just a touch insulting to MO, is going to help a whole bunch.

 

I think there are some fundamental problems with coins as travelers that need to be addressed first. Placing a restriction on a coin seems to me to be the opposite of making them travelers.

[avroair]

I do think that fireman121 is on to something, I just don't know that specifying to avoid a location will protect it that much, or prevent it from going there, or him being just a touch insulting to MO, is going to help a whole bunch.

 

I think there are some fundamental problems with coins as travelers that need to be addressed first. Placing a restriction on a coin seems to me to be the opposite of making them travelers.

 

Yeah kinda like travel bug hotels that serve as prisons... it does seem counter intuitive to have a coin NOT travel it seems in the current coin thief climate that coins just don't make very good travelers.

[kimnbair]

I do think that fireman121 is on to something, I just don't know that specifying to avoid a location will protect it that much, or prevent it from going there, or him being just a touch insulting to MO, is going to help a whole bunch.

 

I think there are some fundamental problems with coins as travelers that need to be addressed first. Placing a restriction on a coin seems to me to be the opposite of making them travelers.

 

Yeah kinda like travel bug hotels that serve as prisons... it does seem counter intuitive to have a coin NOT travel it seems in the current coin thief climate that coins just don't make very good travelers.

 

I think coins are just too pretty to be travelers and what I mean by that is that they're too nice and people want to keep them as opposed to the tb's i've seen that are key chains and knick knacks that aren't as "pretty" as the coins. Thats just my opinion and what to i know I'm just a n00b

[+GEO*Trailblazer 1]

So far SW Missouri has been OK.

They travel through and on their way.

100'S Of TB's and coins.

 

I have created a new way of logging.

Now I leave a coin in every cache.

 

I found some nice coins to leave and that will be added to the log.

 

Then slip in a geocoin and they have to go to every cache.

 

Kinda on the lines of

THIS PROPERTY GUARDED BY SMITH&WESSON 3 NIGHTS A WEEK.

 

YOU GUESS WHICH 3.

[+Degai]

I do think that fireman121 is on to something, I just don't know that specifying to avoid a location will protect it that much, or prevent it from going there, or him being just a touch insulting to MO, is going to help a whole bunch.

 

I think there are some fundamental problems with coins as travelers that need to be addressed first. Placing a restriction on a coin seems to me to be the opposite of making them travelers.

 

Yeah kinda like travel bug hotels that serve as prisons... it does seem counter intuitive to have a coin NOT travel it seems in the current coin thief climate that coins just don't make very good travelers.

 

I think coins are just too pretty to be travelers and what I mean by that is that they're too nice and people want to keep them as opposed to the tb's i've seen that are key chains and knick knacks that aren't as "pretty" as the coins. Thats just my opinion and what to i know I'm just a n00b

 

Yep, you are 100% right, which in very unfortunate! Especially, considering the amount of money one invests in the coins. You know there is always going to be someone who takes the fun out of it for all!

[+Degai]

So far SW Missouri has been OK.

They travel through and on their way.

100'S Of TB's and coins.

 

I have created a new way of logging.

Now I leave a coin in every cache.

 

I found some nice coins to leave and that will be added to the log.

 

Then slip in a geocoin and they have to go to every cache.

 

Kinda on the lines of

THIS PROPERTY GUARDED BY SMITH&WESSON 3 NIGHTS A WEEK.

 

YOU GUESS WHICH 3.

 

Good one!