+Scubasonic Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 Glass Houses. Looks like a Jeep prison you're running with the rules you have applied on the cache. Now v-hunter, what would influence you to investigate the OP's profile, and see that he owns a Jeep Prison? That is a bonafide prison though, and the cache was muggled a couple of times, and several imprisoned jeeps lost. I wonder how it has been "stocked" in the past, jeep hoarding perhaps? If I lived closer I think I would stage a "PRISON BREAK" on a regular bases. SS Quote Link to comment
+DCNatsFan Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 Ah, travel bug hoarders, gotta hate 'em. See, this is why God gave us SAMPLE geocoins - if ya gotta hoard, hoard those, and respect other people's property. I'm on my way to drop off a geocoin at my own cache, and stuff like this really makes me reconsider it (yes, it's my coin, not someone else's). Quote Link to comment
+dmbfan73 Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 Ah, travel bug hoarders, gotta hate 'em. See, this is why God gave us SAMPLE geocoins - if ya gotta hoard, hoard those, and respect other people's property. I'm on my way to drop off a geocoin at my own cache, and stuff like this really makes me reconsider it (yes, it's my coin, not someone else's). I've seen a lot of people release laminated pictures of their geocoins... that way if someone steals it no big deal, just print out another and start over again. Keep the original in your collection! Quote Link to comment
+UncleJimbo Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 Ah, travel bug hoarders, gotta hate 'em. See, this is why God gave us SAMPLE geocoins - if ya gotta hoard, hoard those, and respect other people's property. I'm on my way to drop off a geocoin at my own cache, and stuff like this really makes me reconsider it (yes, it's my coin, not someone else's). I've seen a lot of people release laminated pictures of their geocoins... that way if someone steals it no big deal, just print out another and start over again. Keep the original in your collection! Most people think paper copies of geocoins are lame. See this thread: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=197664 Quote Link to comment
+dmbfan73 Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 Ah, travel bug hoarders, gotta hate 'em. See, this is why God gave us SAMPLE geocoins - if ya gotta hoard, hoard those, and respect other people's property. I'm on my way to drop off a geocoin at my own cache, and stuff like this really makes me reconsider it (yes, it's my coin, not someone else's). I've seen a lot of people release laminated pictures of their geocoins... that way if someone steals it no big deal, just print out another and start over again. Keep the original in your collection! Most people think paper copies of geocoins are lame. See this thread: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=197664 They are lame, but I still don't blame people for resorting to that... Quote Link to comment
+Ratsneve Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 They are lame, but I still don't blame people for resorting to that... If this stealing is true for coins is it also true for TBs? What are the chances of my TB working its way around the world and back to Central Oregon? The planet doesn't seem to be a very nice place right now. Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 They are lame, but I still don't blame people for resorting to that... If this stealing is true for coins is it also true for TBs? What are the chances of my TB working its way around the world and back to Central Oregon? The planet doesn't seem to be a very nice place right now. Sometimes stolen so never release any you aren't willing to lose. If the traveler is pretty-shiny thing it might get stolen, but it's more likely to be muggled, destroyed along with the cache or retrieved and neglected to be replaced by some short time cacher. The nice thing about bugs is you can replaced them quite easily and most never know the difference. Coins on the other hand... Quote Link to comment
+Ratsneve Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 They are lame, but I still don't blame people for resorting to that... If this stealing is true for coins is it also true for TBs? What are the chances of my TB working its way around the world and back to Central Oregon? The planet doesn't seem to be a very nice place right now. Sometimes stolen so never release any you aren't willing to lose. If the traveler is pretty-shiny thing it might get stolen, but it's more likely to be muggled, destroyed along with the cache or retrieved and neglected to be replaced by some short time cacher. The nice thing about bugs is you can replaced them quite easily and most never know the difference. Coins on the other hand... I doubt I will keep trying if and when I lose this one. In fact, the further it may go on the journey the more disappointment I will feel when it disappears. Oh, well, let's just see what happens. Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 I doubt I will keep trying if and when I lose this one. In fact, the further it may go on the journey the more disappointment I will feel when it disappears. Oh, well, let's just see what happens. You can always adopt it out to me. I'd be happy to re-release it. Quote Link to comment
+ncfinn Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Who would be stupid enough to log a pick-up of a coin and then just keep it? Wouldn't it be smarter to just take the coin and never tell anybody you even visited ther cache? Obviously these people know how to log a coin, they just choose not to. Obviously these people are not layed-up in a coma, they are actively caching with access to a computer. Simply put, they are thieves stealing other people's property. Can you post a note on a local board asking if anybody knows a cacher "imathief" and explain you have not been able to contact him/her. I have seen that successfully done here before for other reasons. I think a polite reminder from an 'official" person would be much more effective. Quote Link to comment
+dmbfan73 Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Who would be stupid enough to log a pick-up of a coin and then just keep it? Wouldn't it be smarter to just take the coin and never tell anybody you even visited ther cache? Obviously these people know how to log a coin, they just choose not to. Obviously these people are not layed-up in a coma, they are actively caching with access to a computer. Simply put, they are thieves stealing other people's property. Can you post a note on a local board asking if anybody knows a cacher "imathief" and explain you have not been able to contact him/her. I have seen that successfully done here before for other reasons. I think a polite reminder from an 'official" person would be much more effective. I asked an "official" person to be the 3rd party and to help intervene, and basically I got told that it's not their place to and won't. I agree with you- he's a thief. Problem is, we have no police with jurisdiction and no incentive to make the guy play right. Quote Link to comment
+JennM Posted September 3, 2008 Share Posted September 3, 2008 One problem with hoarders, is that they usually take the traveler without logging it. I was feeling a bit paranoid for a while as bugs I'd dropped off, disappeared right after I dropped them - and I was the last person to log them. One even disappeared when I went out of state and dropped it! If a hoarder's inventory is posted publicly, they'll just stop logging the bugs as picked up. They'll likely just take them (as I'm sure some do already), keep them, and nobody really knows what happened to them but the last person known to have dropped it off. Unfortunately this is a part of the game. You release your bug, you take your chances. It's frustrating, to be sure - I've got a few MIA bugs out there - but that's a risk we know when we send them out there. Jenn Quote Link to comment
+Eartha Posted September 3, 2008 Share Posted September 3, 2008 Most people just don't know how to log them. Feel free to email, or post in a log to the TB page, the link in my signature to the Groundspeak Knowledge base. Quote Link to comment
+Suburban Hillbillies Posted September 11, 2008 Share Posted September 11, 2008 To all the TB/Coin Hoarders... I hope you get a never ending ice cream headache! (Gee, that wouldn't be fun) Quote Link to comment
+blb9556 Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 To all the TB/Coin Hoarders... I hope you get a never ending ice cream headache! (Gee, that wouldn't be fun) Great thinking SH! Please keep this thread family friendly. Quote Link to comment
8ball9ball Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 I agree that a number of people do not understand how to handle TBs or GCs, but you also have those people that just go out and visit a cache and pull them without logging. I have already seen this in action as 2 caches were literally next 2 each other and this person logged in at 1 cache but not the other that had a GC. Needless 2 say the GC was missing out of that cache. Some people will not play by the rules. Quote Link to comment
+Eartha Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 I posted this in another thread, but it works here too. Please remember that 65% of the time people just do not know how to log them, 45% of the time they forget to log them, 39.72% of the time parents do not know their kids rifled through the cache and they didn't see them grab a travel bug, 11.6% of the time people haven't gotten home to log yet, 3.8% of the time people logged them into the wrong cache but no longer have the tracking number to fix it, and 95% of the time 30% of the statistics are made up on the spot. Quote Link to comment
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