ScrappyDooPup: by some stroke of good luck, excellent Karma, a miracle, or all three, my cache container which I thought had been muggled has actually been recovered with ALL OF ITS CONTENTS (including three TB's) !!! I can partially contribute this to the green "Official Geocache" sticker that I had placed on the side of the ammo can with my contact information -- I now highly recommend this practice! the cache was taken into possession by the City of Dallas as work crews feared it was something suspicious; however, the manager is related to some geocachers so he knew it was OK. he notified me to come pick it up at his office. the manager was very nice and we discussed how the world has changed and innocent things now raise needless suspicions. here is an excerpt from his email...
"City of Dallas (COD) Flood Control Division, found your geocache under Margaret Hunt Hill bridge. It was removed and we took custody of the box. This bridge belongs to Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) and we are the land manager."
their office doesn't want cache containers placed in the manner in which I placed this ammo can so I will be archiving the cache and finding a new location for a new hide. I will move the TB's onto other caches.