<°)))o>< Geocoin

Idea: Chur (2008)
Design: myGeocoin.de / Claudia Siebauer



About this coin:
Like a sleuth dog following a deliberately placed trace of a red herring instead of chasing the criminal, so follows the common cacher now and then the tempting wrong trace...
This coin shall remind our distracted friend that magnets can be found not only on road signs, and that a promising trail in high grass can lead to other residues instead of the cache....And who know, maybe this red herring can maybe distract a muggle.

In the same way like the origin tradition geocachers sometimes follow a wrong scent to find a cache ;-) They follow the Red Herring...


What Wikipedia says:
In literature, a red herring is a narrative element intended to distract the reader from a more important event in the plot, usually a twist ending. 

The term "red herring" originates from the tradition whereby young hunting dogs in Britain were trained to follow a scent with the use of a "red" (salted and smoked) herring (see kipper). This pungent fish would be dragged along a trail until the puppy learned to follow the scent. Later, when the dog was being trained to follow the faint odor of a fox or a badger, the trainer would drag a red herring (which has a much stronger odor) across the animal's trail at right angles. The dog would eventually learn to follow the original scent rather than the stronger scent. 

In literature, the most commonplace use of a "red herring" is in mystery fiction. One particular character is described or emphasized in a way that seems to throw suspicion upon that character as the person who committed the crime: later, it develops that someone else is the guilty party.

 


Trackable at Geocaching.com with custom Icon  
47x19 mm diameter
2,5 mm thickness
ball chain attachment
2nd level fishskin pattern under translucent color
epoxy covering