Comments on: Travel Bugs Are Missing In Action!?

By: Cottage Man

Cottage Man — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:53:42 +0000

Coins go missing all the time! I started a coin in Cole Harbour and it made it’s way across the world only to be dropped in a cache in Bagdad. Great now let someone move it from there I thought, but yes it was reported missing. It was reported the cache was muggled by some kids in the area, O Well. Hope the kid takes good care of it, one of the Nova Scotia 1st coins.

Two weeks ago some kids from the Cole Harbour area decided to break into cars in the area. They managed to do several on our street, my SUV was one. They took all the loose change and a couple of Geocoins that I had grabbed from caches as well. Good thing was that in all the cars they only took small change and placed any items like GPS’s, cell phones, and Palms on the seats to let you know they were there.

Hope those kids from also enjoy there finds.

By: i brive a dus

i brive a dus — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:05:33 +0000

I am watching 15 TBs that I have moved along….only 2 have been active in the last six months. Most of the others have been reported missing from the cache where last placed. And surprisingly, not all of them were “cute” or in anyway attractive. But people collect anything.
My own releases vanished quickly without a trace. One was placed in a highly complex puzzle cache where it languished for months before being grabbed and since has been MIA. No more TBs from this player.

By: northernpenguin

northernpenguin — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:49:39 +0000

While reading this article I had to chuckle. That last update - Pasha&Kralice brought the bug from Nova Scotia to Ontario and dropped it off during an event cache I was hosting, and I’m just reading this article now.

On the more serious note, I’m running at 75% bug theft from the ones I’ve released as well.

By: Princess Mother

Princess Mother — Tue, 27 May 2008 01:59:16 +0000

I think that the website should host a lost TB section. We have sadly lost a few TBs and it is very disheartening to watch them go for a bit then disappear into thin air. It would be nice to find out why they go missing? Is it because lack of knowledge on the “finder”? Is it dark human nature to gleefully find and then “toss” TBs? I choose to believe that the “finder” didn’t know what to do with it. We lost Princess Bear many years ago and there isn’t a day that passes that I wonder if Princess got tossed, got taken to a good home and loved or what? We decided that Princess Bear was too cute. Purple care bear. She did give some people some good wishes as one geocacher reported that she took it home to her grandkids to admire and share stories of when she was a girl and played with care bears. I am always hopeful that she will appear to continue her journey and bring happiness to “finders”. Her tag was 7BK510. LaPine Nuts missing travel bugs are TBK5GG and TBK9BY. Any news of any of these travel bugs is appreciated by SkipperMike.

By: tonka_boy

tonka_boy — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:49:51 +0000

I released two more TBs this week. We’ll see what happens to them. I hope they last longer than my Christmas Golfer TB. I even drilled a hole right through its belly to make it less attractive to a collector. Who would want a Christmas ornament with a hole through it?

And what’s wrong with people anyway? Mine was tagged with a statement that it was not an ordinary trading item! It’s goal is to move from cache to cache. Are there so many geocachers that are ignorant to what TBs are? Or is it just over indulgent parents that allow their kids to raid a geocache just to keep them happy? I don’t get it.

And never mind that hick@heart. He’s just showing off his new Six Sigma, black belt skills.

By: go_man

go_man — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:05:37 +0000

PJ, keep an eye on it

A-Ron, sounds like you’re in this 75% range too.

By: A-Ron

A-Ron — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:49:50 +0000

I feel your pain.

Today, I marked one Geocoin MIA, sent two EMail to other cachers who have held my TBs for more than a month and updated another 3 caches with requests to move along my Geocoins/TBs, if they’re still present in the cache.

By: P.J.

P.J. — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:46:25 +0000

I’ve never analyzed these, but I know what you mean with it all. A lot of Bugs I pick up, I like to watch and track to see where they go after I drop them off. It’s upsetting when those that you place disappear. I haven’t released any of my own yet, but have one ready and am hoping it won’t go missing.

By: go_man

go_man — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:02:37 +0000

Knitting?! Gawd, man, we’re not allowed to play with such dangerous objects as knitting needles! It is nice to see that your 6 Sigma training is getting some use.

Seriously also, yes, a bummer.

By: Hick@Heart

Hick@Heart — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:25:38 +0000

I’ve run some data analysis on this and I have found some common cause variation in the process. It seems that it is you. My recommendation is to isolate you from the process, a possible redeployment is in order. Have you considered knitting as an alternative hobby?

Seriously, that is a bummer. One thing I’ve noticed people doing is stationg that they’ve picked up the TB and will move it along soon. Yet the TB remains in the cache’s inventory. Maybe they are just planning to “retrieve and drop off” in one step???????????

Geocaching With Team Hick@Heart