Ammo Can Thieves

[+wordfried]

I'm sure it's probably been discussed here somewhere....but right now it's like finding a needle in a hay stack....

 

Anybody have any words of wisdom in regards to thieves of geocaches. One of mine was stolen, I'm convinced. Hadn't had any visitor s even logged as finding it successfully. I'm in Virginia. Wondering if anyone is tracking reports of stolen caches-especially ammo boxes. I've noticed e-bay sales for ammo boxes. Are they becoming too enticing to use as a container anymore?

 

Signed, frustrated and wanted to prevent a reoccurance-Wordfried

[Bobthearch]

Do you suspect it was someone using Geocaching.com as an ammo can collection method? Or is it more likely a non-cacher stumbled accross it? Maybe it just needs to be relocated to a less-public location?

 

Just thinking out loud,

Bob

[Prof. Y. Lupardi]

I have some caches using beautifull army-green 'medical supply' boxes.

One time the whole box and contents disappeared, one time only the box was gone (contents left in plastic bag by thief).

[+Jamie Z]

I think if someone steals your ammo box, it's because they think it's a great box. Ammo cans are great for a lot of things. Quite a few people I know have never seen them. I'd never seen one before maybe four years ago.

 

I was tempted to paint mine yellow with little pink hearts and flowers to discourage the stereotype male who is most likely to take the thing because he thinks it's cool.

 

Jamie

[+Ambrosia]

A fellow geocacher lost all three of his ammo can hides within a week or two. They were all in the same geographical area, within 10 - 20 miles of each other. It seemed to us that it had to be connected to geocaching, otherwise, how could 3 at once disapear?

 

I was worried about mine, but the disapearing stopped. We didn't see any ammo can hides suddenly pop up, so it's a big mystery.

 

It's sad, though. He gave up on his caches and just archived them. It was too stressful for him to worry about them. How could someone steal caches like that, and not even care?

Edited November 15, 2004 by Ambrosia

[+BadAndy]

I doubt anyone is targeting ammocans themselves. Most likely it was discovered by a non geocacher, or a cache maggot. cache maggots don't particularly care what container is used. Their objective is to steal the cache, even if it's a micro.

[+Team Coleman]

My first and only cache so far was hit and destroyed this week. It's very discouraging for a new geocacher. Although I suspect it was a non-gc'er that took the cache, it's still frusting as all get out none-the-less!

[+clearpath]

Disappearing caches are part of the game ... wait a couple of weeks then replace it. That usually works ...

[+planetrobert]

i had an ammo can disappear recently, kinda sucks, but two other non ammo cans of mine disappeared recently too. It seems to be a disappearing cache game here, not just ammo cans.

[+Night Stalker]

Unfortunately we have a geo-maggot in our area. He/She does not discriminate. If a cache is not really well hidden, or does not require a lot of work to get to the caching site you can assume it will last less then a week. some of our caches are currently gone withine 24 hours.

 

Yes it is discouraging.

 

[+CompuCash]

Unfortunately we have a geo-maggot in our area. He/She does not discriminate. If a cache is not really well hidden, or does not require a lot of work to get to the caching site you can assume it will last less then a week. some of our caches are currently gone withine 24 hours.

 

Yes it is discouraging.

 

 

put one somewhere that you can put a web cam on it.

 

maybe in a park where someone you know has a yard that backs onto the park.

 

maybe you can catch the worm.

[+RichardMoore]

Anybody have any words of wisdom in regards to thieves of geocaches. One of mine was stolen, I'm convinced. Hadn't had any visitor s even logged as finding it successfully. I'm in Virginia. Wondering if anyone is tracking reports of stolen caches-especially ammo boxes. I've noticed e-bay sales for ammo boxes. Are they becoming too enticing to use as a container anymore?

Is this the cache that you are referring to?

You placed it five months ago and have gotten nothing but DNF's on it. You think it may be missing because no one's found it. Are you sure that it's gone?

Shouldn't you go and check it? Or at least disable or archive it?