Travel Bug metal tags being taken from bugs

[AuntieNae]

HELP!

The Tapps has been to several caches (Waukesha area) the past couple of days to move travel bugs that have been sitting.

He has found the travel bugs .. the toy or item, plus goal sheet, in the ziplock .. all minus the geocaching.com metal tag with tracking number.

The Tapps has been contacting the bug owners
regarding their bug .. but we also wanted to put out word to be looking for travel bug tags minus their toy. We would very much like to reunite these.

Thanks
AuntieNae

[Natloh2]

[greyhounder]

I found one of these tagless bugs back in October. It was in a ziploc and had a goal sheet, and a tag made by the Tapps, but not metal TB tag. I tracked down the bug — it had not been logged into the cache, but apparently sometime between it’s retrieval in a cache a few miles away and placement in the present cache. its tags went missing.

After a little more searching I tracked down the owner and they sent out the copy tag, which I misplaced for a while. Thankfully Team LightningBugs offered to make a new tag for the bug, and off it went on its merry way.

If you’re seeing it happen too, my guess is that the culprit may be one person, and probably from our fine state!!

Bec

[Lostby7]

It is happening in the Ocono/Watertown area as well, a local cacher told me he found a bug this week missing it’s tag.
Nice, real nice.

*EDIT* By bad the opposite was true on this persons find; he found a TB last week that had the item removed and the tag left behind. I guess this is the chance we take and we know it going into it.

[This message has been edited by Lostby7 (edited 01-10-2006).]

[CBMB]

Do to family and work commitments, Bob and I haven’t been able to do much caching lately. We have noticed when we do get out that there have been bugs showing on cache pages and have not seen them in the caches. Perhaps they were actually there but we didn’t notice them because the tags weren’t on them. We’re going to be able to get out more in the coming weeks, so we’ll keep an eye out for these bugs.

My question is this:
What the heck is the point of taking someone else’s tag? It’s not like you can put it on a bug of your own and send it back out. Seems senseless to me!

MB

[Cache_boppin_BunnyFuFu]

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Originally posted by CB&MB:

My question is this:
What the heck is the point of taking someone else’s tag? It’s not like you can put it on a bug of your own and send it back out. Seems senseless to me!

MB

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I’d have to agree!! What IS the sense??!!??!! I guess someone COULD take it and TRY to claim it as theirs and re attach it to something, but THAT is just going to lead the real owner to them.

Is it a jealous issue on some cachers part?? Goodness knows, but I hope we will figure something out.

I, too, am frustrated with not finding coins or TB’s in the caches that state so. I recently went to one up near Mountain, WI and found a cache with this very problem. I sent a nice e-mail to the person who found the cache between myself and the person leaving the coin, inquiring if they even saw the coin in there or if they had not logged it yet, to be moved on. Have heard nothing as of yet.

[jthorson]

What the heck is the point of taking someone else’s tag?

A long time ago a newbie thought the point of travel bugs was similar to the trading in a cache. He thought that you grabbed a bug and -replaced- the item with one of your own. Once he was traced and the mechanics explained he was embarrassed out of caching (I never saw him post/log again).

My first guess is that ignorance is the cause.

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