I guess "discovered" needs to be defined.
I'm definitely no expert on geocaching and on occasion come across something new which I don't understand.
I just placed a new Green Jeep TB that I've had for a few days into a different cache. I know the party that initiated the jeep and they passed it through a cache to us.
When I logged the TB in its new home and checked the TB web page I was surprised to find two different cachers from the other side of the country had "discovered" the TB while it was in my possession.
There are 5500 Green Jeeps out there as I understand it. I seriously doubt if someone at Jeep is sitting in their office worrying about whether their "bugs" are still on the move.
So, I can only assume that some people are playing some silly "numbers" game. What really made me laugh was when I went to the "discoverers" profile page and they have some long quote about the game being more about quality than quantity.
Or, maybe I'm wrong.
I feel less wrong after reading the previous posts in this thread though.
I guess it's inevitable that some will get wrapped up in the numbers game to the point of trying to "count" everything they come across. Perhaps these "discoverers" feel if they can scour the web around the globe and come upon a bug, they've "discovered" it.
I'm going to try not to get worked up about it though.
I get what I get out of it, and everybody does their own thing.
(I still think it's LAME though to log anything if you haven't been to the cache or seen the bug with your own eyes.)
Cache on!
