Interesting benchmark loggings

[+GrizzFlyer]

HERE is a link to a benchmark in Cincinnati that was found uprooted, and has apparently been officially abandoned (destroyed?) It is being taken around to geocaching events to be logged. Interesting, have never seen this done before. Although it is regularly being logged as found, I agree with the entry of 5.26.2005, that a "note" might be more appropriate than a "found".

 

Anybody ever seen this happen with a benchmark before?

Edited June 20, 2007 by GrizzFlyer

[+Ernmark]

..I've seen a few Canadian BM's move around as travel bugs...no BM's that were ever in the NGS database as far as I know.

[2oldfarts (the rockhounders)]

HERE is a link to a benchmark in Cincinnati that was found uprooted, and has apparently been officially abandoned (destroyed?) It is being taken around to geocaching events to be logged. Interesting, have never seen this done before. Although it is regularly being logged as found, I agree with the entry of 5.26.2005, that a "note" might be more appropriate than a "found".

 

Anybody ever seen this happen with a benchmark before?

 

In this thread it has been discussed before and I reply in that thread with another link.

It is being used as an educational tool now. No harm, no foul.

 

Shirley~

Edited June 20, 2007 by 2oldfarts (the rockhounders)

[Bill93]

There were two of them being discussed. I made a big fuss because they had the disks in their possession but had not notified NGS that they were destroyed. I think they are now officially destroyed, due to the efforts of a former poster of this forum and not the people who have them.

 

If they were officially marked destroyed, are used in a truly educational manner (and not to inspire someone to rip off one that is still useful) then I guess I don't have a strong case to object.

 

However, my feeling is that if someone brought a geocache to a picnic and showed it around, most people probably wouldn't feel justified to claim that they "Found" the cache, and shouldn't claim they "Found" a benchmark that way either.

[p10st8]

HX2026

 

This BM and the entire building it was attached to was moved. Would you consider that a find?

[+Black Dog Trackers]

That's an amusing case. I vaguely recall someone posting about the same building long ago.

Anyway, I believe the correct logging for this would be Destroyed.

 

I just now checked and there's an NGS Destroyed report from 2002.