+decline2state Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 TB motels kill me. I am new at this but they seem to be either prisons or an organized way to kidnap TB's. One of my TB's is in a prison 30 miles from my home. People keep "discovering" it but the hotel has a "one for one" rule so it sits there. I want to steal my TB and set him free. Have any of you ever done this? If I do set him free I am going to add one of those laminated tags with a part about o TB motels! Quote Link to comment
+mousekakat Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Set anything and everything in a tb hotel/prison free! They are meant to travel, not sit there and wait for someone to be able to do a 1 for 1 trade. Heck yes I'd go liberate it! You'll find that I'm not the only person here to do it, either! Quote Link to comment
JohnMac56 Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 I had to rescue one of my own TB's from one of those prisons after it sat there for 3 months with only discoveries made for it. Quote Link to comment
jholly Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 (edited) TB motels kill me. I am new at this but they seem to be either prisons or an organized way to kidnap TB's. One of my TB's is in a prison 30 miles from my home. People keep "discovering" it but the hotel has a "one for one" rule so it sits there. I want to steal my TB and set him free. Have any of you ever done this? If I do set him free I am going to add one of those laminated tags with a part about o TB motels! Yep, go get them. While your there take all the other bugs and coins and set them free. I probably wouldn't bother with the similey for the cache since the owner will probably just delete it anyway, but do log all the bugs and coins. Edited September 13, 2008 by jholly Quote Link to comment
+StumpWater Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 We have a couple active and very useful TB Hotels near where I cache. People often stop by, drop a few, take a few. These caches seem to really help travelers move. There are no "1 for 1" rules on them, by the way. If you want to go get your TB, you should do it. It's not stealing. Quote Link to comment
+KoosKoos Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Stealing a TB would mean taking it away from caches and keeping it. MOVING a TB from a cache is the PURPOSE of TBs. No cache owner has the right to say how YOUR TB can travel into or out of their cache. If you want to make the trip to go get it, by all means, pick it up and free any other ones there. Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 I don't see any sort of trade rule on that cache other than - trade fairly, and your bug has only been Discovered twice since dropped. You can certainly retrieve your own bug or any other bug you can assist towards its goal. Quote Link to comment
+Eartha Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 It's not stealing. You are just moving it the way it is meant to be moved. Quote Link to comment
+Albritton105 Posted September 15, 2008 Share Posted September 15, 2008 One for One?? Opps, I just grabbed three to take to Arkansas with me. The last batch I deposited in caches in the Ozark Mountains has been moved so I grabbed some more to take on my next ride. Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted September 15, 2008 Share Posted September 15, 2008 There are no trade rules applied to travel bugs. As long as you can assist the bug towards its goal it doesn't matter if you take two or twenty. Quote Link to comment
+ArcherDragoon Posted September 15, 2008 Share Posted September 15, 2008 I don't see any sort of trade rule on that cache other than - trade fairly, and your bug has only been Discovered twice since dropped. You can certainly retrieve your own bug or any other bug you can assist towards its goal. Furthermore...I would take that to apply to SWAG...they (the owners) are just trying to remind others that if you take some swag, you should leave some swag and try to keep the value relatively even...(of course...I am making an assumption here)... . . . It has been said before...and most likely will be said again sometime...Travel Bugs are not swag...if you can move one, then move it...if you want to leave one, then go ahead and do it...but leaving a TB is not required in order for someone to pick-up a TB and take it on some travels... Quote Link to comment
J'nK Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 It's your own TB! You can do whatever you want with it! Go get it. Quote Link to comment
+SUp3rFM & Cruella Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 If I can help a TB placed on a TB Hotel or whatever I don't care about the "so called" rules of that "hotel". I'll pick the TB and help it on its mission. Quote Link to comment
+Monterry Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 I don't see any sort of trade rule on that cache other than - trade fairly, and your bug has only been Discovered twice since dropped. You can certainly retrieve your own bug or any other bug you can assist towards its goal. DARNED RIGHT - GO FOT IT Quote Link to comment
+trainlove Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 I dislike the one-for-one 'rule' that some people seem to think that they can make up for their travel bug prisons. I like the friendlier one where you should leave at least 3 bugs in a hotel. But then again hotels are prisons. What's preventing you from finding any old cache in your area that has a bug, or even a cache you have already found before, just to get a bug to 'trade'? Quote Link to comment
+Scubasonic Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 Just the other day I was looking for Caches to find and ran across a TRAVEL BUG PRISON, in looking at the inventory I saw many had been there for awhile, so I staged a Prison break, and continue to watch the Cache and if it gets to many in it I will rescue them. Scubasonic Quote Link to comment
+Headhardhat Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 IMHO taking any travel bug from any cache with the sole purpose of moving it on it's merry way is not stealing. Liberating in some cases but definately not stealing. As long as you don't keep the traveller and put it into another cache you are doing what is needed. I once went after one of my tb's that was about 60 miles away from my home. The recent posts stated that the cache needed maintenance and the items inside were wet. I took the chance that my TB was at least still in his plastic bag and not drenched. Turns out he was the only thing that was in great shape when I got there. I ended up taking "Bob" back and even cleaned up the cache, put in new log and asked if I could even adopt the cache (owner lives in Mississippi and haven't heard a peep since). Bob is still trouncing around North Carolina somewhere but atleast he's still trouncing. Long Story Short (too late). Go get your bug... -HHH Quote Link to comment
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