Get Out of (TB) Jail Free
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Owner:
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the hermit crabs
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Released:
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005
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Origin:
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Massachusetts, United States
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To rescue travel bugs that are being held hostage in TB "Hotels".
How would you like it if you went on vacation, stayed for a while, and when it was time to go, the hotel desk clerk said that you couldn't leave because there was no other guest to take your place?
So you're sitting glumly in the hotel lobby, waiting for someone to come by to set you free. Other guests who also wish to check out join you for the long wait. Taxis and buses drive by the hotel, heading toward your destination, but they aren't allowed to pick you up because they have no passengers to drop off.
Finally a new guest arrives. "Free at last!" you think to yourself, and pick up your bags to leave.
Not so fast! The new arrival gets to decide who goes free. And it's not necessarily you, even though you've been waiting the longest. "That family over there, the one with the cute kids -- they can go," the new arrival says. You stand there, bags in hand, stunned. The desk clerk sneers at you.
Not your idea of a fun vacation? Well, that's just what goes on at the "TB Hotels" which require a one-for-one bug swap, or which have a minimum-number-of-bugs rule. The cache owners are holding your bugs hostage for their own amusement, blithely ignoring the bugs' goals.
This bug's mission is to rescue the hostages that are being held in those TB prisons. If you are holding this bug, take it to a TB Hotel that has restrictive trade rules, and swap all of the bugs inside for this one. Distribute the newly liberated bugs in caches with no TB trade restrictions.
If the prison warden gives you a hard time for breaking his rules, tell him that it's not your fault: the rules on the bug that you were holding said that you had to do it. Feel free to blame us.
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blackjack65 posted a note for it
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Too bad this original Travel Bug has gone missing.
My version of it, Buzz the Mighty Liberator,
has recently been found again, so there is hope.
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GeoJunkie posted a note for it
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Hmm...Based on this log: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=e4fb2f0a-fc72-4cbd-b496-e1a91d518d88 I think it's gone.
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legacypac posted a note for it
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Saw this TB in the forums. Heck of a good idea - I almost always move every TB I see regardless of the cache "rules". In fact, I ususally don't even look at the cache rules. Free all the TB's! and Cache On
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WRITE SHOP ROBERT posted a note for it
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It's a little interesting, whenever you need a new key made, or more forms at the office, you'll always get worse quality if you make a copy of a copy of a copy, but the some does not hold true in TBs, as a copy can be just as good as an original.
Here's my version
http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=1235073
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RosaBella placed it in Reed Bingham Park Travel Bug Motel
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Georgia
- 268.66 miles
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RosaBella retrieved it from follow the yellow brick rejects
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Georgia
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Off to find a suitable jail to bust free... It shouldn't be too hard 😉
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project359 placed it in follow the yellow brick rejects
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Georgia
- 134.39 miles
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project359 retrieved it from LZ33
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North Carolina
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Found travel bug and brought it a little further south into Georgia.
Placed in follow the yellow brick rejects cache. Nice little spot and hope it continues on its way.
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mblitch posted a note for it
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I didn't find the TB but wanted to say that this is a great idea. Thanks for the ingenuity and creativeness.
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LZ33 placed it in LZ33
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North Carolina
- 133.21 miles
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