Follow That Bug #3

I will make this clear, one more time:

ANYONE, that had possession of at least THREE of the bugs PRIOR to the date of ARCHIVAL - 12/26/2006, may log the cache by simply contacting me via email, or at any event I am at - usually Cliffsides and Grapevines, or the Uxbridge events.

The bug missions were all CLEARLY changed to "travel freely" on the date of archival.

I am having the bugs all locked down, so feel free to toss them if you find them.

I, and the following, but I'm not really speaking for them, do hearby hope to see you with your Follow That Bug log book at some future event such as a Cliffsides and Grapevines event, keep it on you like I kept the bug on me today at SNEG. LOL.

I may post a link to the Excel spreadsheet where this info resides. I can categorically state that perhaps there are only 5 or 10 others to list who may have had all 4 bugs but all of those have 1 or more by Note and/or Discovery. Discoveries should be allowed, but notes do not require a, well, you know, so must NOT be...

~Marvalus, Bubba Riley ,buddles, bugeye59, CacheNCarryMA,
Cool Librarian, egp, FEATHERS, g-o-cashers, granitetrekker,
Halogrammy, LoneWolf64, MASS-JAG, Rich the Bushwhacker,
scarhill, and the "dinosowers"

The State of hostageness is better than the Commonwealth of exile, or the Federation of missingness, or the Republic of stolen. I'm sure that the 24 stated in an earlier log is much longer than it will actually be.

Plus I may possibly place a re-re-incarnation of the VW bug along with the Arachnid when I re-release him.

[This entry was edited by trainlove on Monday, April 07, 2008 at 9:45:10 AM.]

Stats created in about 20 minutes. Some are apparently due to dual names. Some are tagalongs. some I guess got all 4 but not by Retrieving, Placing or Grabbing. I included Grabbing just because it's possible to need to do that.

Cacher #1 #2 #3 #4 sum final
~Marvalus 1 2 3 4 4 no
Berjr1 1 2 3 4 4 yes
Bigrock95 1 2 - 4 3 Yes?
BlackstoneVal 1 2 3 4 4 yes
BluEyz and Bugsy 1 2 3 4 4 yes
Bubba Riley 1 2 3 4 4 no
buddles 1 2 3 4 4 no
bugeye59 1 2 3 4 4 no
BugTracer 1 2 3 4 4 yes
Bushwhack Bob 1 2 3 4 4 yes
CacheNCarryMA 1 2 3 4 4 no
capybaron 1 2 3 4 4 yes
Cool Librarian 1 2 3 4 4 no
CyberChemist 1 2 3 4 4 yes
Downy288 1 2 3 - 3 Yes?
egp 1 2 3 4 4 no
FEATHERS 1 2 3 4 4 no
Fezziwig377 1 2 3 4 4 yes
Fismo 1 2 3 4 4 yes
Foxboro Marmot 1 2 3 4 4 yes
GeoDucks2 1 2 3 4 4 yes
g-o-cashers 1 2 3 4 4 no
Golfin'Fool and Me too! 1 2 3 4 4 yes
granitetrekker 1 2 3 4 4 no
Halogrammy 1 2 3 4 4 no
hotwcnyy 1 2 3 4 4 yes
iggymad 1 2 3 4 4 yes
joshbro 1 2 3 4 4 yes
LHollo777 1 2 3 4 4 yes
LoneWolf64 1 2 3 4 4 no
Macfriends 1 2 3 4 4 yes
maskvolk - 2 3 - 2 yes
MASS-JAG 1 2 3 4 4 no
McDyver 1 2 3 4 4 yes
Moose-r-us 1 2 3 4 4 yes
mredden 1 2 3 4 4 yes
Nomad64 1 2 3 4 4 yes
oldgraymare 1 2 3 4 4 yes
Pandagram 1 2 3 - 3 Yes?
relaxyourback 1 2 3 4 4 yes
Rev of Den Leader 1 - - 4 2 yes
Rich the Bushwhacker 1 2 3 4 4 no
RLahti 1 2 3 4 4 Yes n/a
robar 1 2 3 4 4 yes
scarhill 1 2 3 4 4 no
Schnapps 1 2 3 4 4 yes
Speedy38 1 2 3 4 4 yes
SRD525 1 2 3 4 4 yes
Team Spoonhead 1 2 3 4 4 yes
the "dinosowers" 1 2 3 4 4 no
the hermit crabs 1 2 3 4 4 yes
Trail Buzzards 1 2 3 4 4 yes
trainlove 1 2 3 4 4 no
WaldenRun 1 2 3 4 4 yes
WH 1 2 3 4 4 n/a
Wreck Diver 1 2 3 4 4 yes
dive pricess? - - - - 0 Yes?
fabstar? - - - - 0 Yes?

We the geocachers of southern New England do hearby state that even though it's technically not a violation of the Cache Permanence section of the guidelines, caches like this should have a much higher tolerance of un-temporaryness. I know at least 20 people who would have adopted it. I know at least 20 people who have moved along all 4 of the bugs and have not been able to do the final.

Don't get me wrong. I knew the minute that Follow That Bug Multi-Cache http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=gchmnv was archived by notification and by watchlist, and was disappointed. I originally thought it was temporary. I think the person who put #3 out on a mountaintop in western Mass did that in protest. Tim had nothing to say, in person, when I showed him bug #3 at his event the day I rescued that bug. I am disappointed that ALL 4 of these bug pages now do not show what their original intent was.

[This entry was edited by trainlove on Saturday, April 05, 2008 at 8:30:07 AM.]

Rescued this bug from it's exile in Western Mass. This is actually the second bug like this in 2 months that I've rescued from this zone. That other one was the Thoreau Hitchiker.

I'll [b]NOT[/b] be placing this bug into a cache in 24 seconds, or 24 minutes (already gone), or 24 hours (nearly there) or 24 days or 24 weeks. But will most likely do it in 24 months.

I.E. I'm holding this bug [b]HOSTAGE[/b] until its related cache is reinstated. Hundreds of us New Englandians have traveled hundreds of miles just to get these special bugs.

I'll post up to date statistics of who has had what bug, including all 4 but unable to get the cache, soon. But with 25+26+19+23 pages of logs that a real chore.