[Az-Geocaching] Travel Bug Question

[Scott Sparks]

Debbie,
One reason may be because the owner of the cache that the bug is in may 
not be aware that the bug that's supposed to be there is missing.  
Another reason may be the cache owner may feel it's not his/her 
responsibility.  Some people view TB's as just so much geo-trash.  
Others live and die for TB's.  My suggestion, if it really bugs you, 
would be a polite note to the cache and/or bug owner explaining the 
situation like, ''I was at your cache and TB  #123456 is missing from 
your cache.  Perhaps you would like to mark it missing.''    I suggest 
that you do NOT take it upon yourself to become the TB Police and start 
notifying owners about TB's in caches that you have never even visited 
yourself.  People will get irritated by that and we already have (at 
least) one TB Gestapo roaming around out there as it is.

-- Sprocket

P.S. I have to admit, I didn't know a cache owner could mark a TB as 
missing from his/her cache until just now.   Thanks Brian.

>So why don't people do this?  Is it rude to ask the owner to remove them?
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>Debbie
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>Brian Casteel <bcasteel at uccinc.net> wrote:
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>Yep.  As cache owner you can remove the TB from your cache, and place it in
>the Void of the Unknown, where it will remain until logged by someone or
>sent to the TB Graveyard by the TB owner.
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