+housefamily Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 I've just paid a £30 parking fine to get FTF on a cache. I'm still deciding if it was worth it!! Ok, it was completely my own fault (I didn't read the sign properly), and I didn't need to pay in order to find the cache ... ... but what lengths have other people gone to, to find a cache? Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 £2 to climb The Monument in London. 311 steps and worth every penny. Bad luck on the parking ticket. Still, it's only money... Quote Link to comment
+currykev Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 There are a few caches out there that I have had trouble finding.How much of a bribe do you think the owners will accept to give me the exact location? Quote Link to comment
+housefamily Posted August 3, 2006 Author Share Posted August 3, 2006 There are a few caches out there that I have had trouble finding.How much of a bribe do you think the owners will accept to give me the exact location? I'm sure a liquid bribe would always be accepted!! Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Can't remember how much, but it was more than £30, plus 3 points to get this one: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...b3-0f58d3fcf6ec Quote Link to comment
+stora Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 I've just paid a £30 parking fine to get FTF on a cache. I'm still deciding if it was worth it!! Ok, it was completely my own fault (I didn't read the sign properly), and I didn't need to pay in order to find the cache ... ... but what lengths have other people gone to, to find a cache? Forgot to pay £1 for all day parking and when I cam back to the car, I had a £40 parking fine. All that and a DNF too Quote Link to comment
+Woodbury Walker Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Sunday morning, 7.45am – Lyme Regis! The only car in the car park. A 10-minute walk to find a Stuey's micro. Came back and had an £18 parking ticket. It had a happy ending though; Stuey gave me a £1. towards the fine as he had retrieved the coin from a FTF. When caching I take more care where I park now? Quote Link to comment
+Kitty Hawk Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Can't remember how much, but it was more than £30, plus 3 points to get this one: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...b3-0f58d3fcf6ec I got that for No 100. £30 fine & 3 points but my car insurance went up by £160 as a result... Quote Link to comment
+Tiger-Eyes Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 I have been trying to get to GCD182, so far i have have hired a boat for £85 had 2 trips out one to get the clues another to hire the boat but couldn't get close enough to the cache I will get it one day. Quote Link to comment
+currykev Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 I've just paid a £30 parking fine to get FTF on a cache. I'm still deciding if it was worth it!! Ok, it was completely my own fault (I didn't read the sign properly), and I didn't need to pay in order to find the cache ... ... but what lengths have other people gone to, to find a cache? Forgot to pay £1 for all day parking and when I cam back to the car, I had a £40 parking fine. All that and a DNF too If there had been train details on the cache page,you may have saved money! Quote Link to comment
+Alibags Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 It seems that the thoughtful and kind owner of the cache that you linked to had in fact posted a warning about parking restrictions However, at least that's solved an argument in the office about how much a parking fine is! Quote Link to comment
+housefamily Posted August 3, 2006 Author Share Posted August 3, 2006 It seems that the thoughtful and kind owner of the cache that you linked to had in fact posted a warning about parking restrictions However, at least that's solved an argument in the office about how much a parking fine is! And we even read the warning as well!!! But the adreneline was pumping... we were racing to get FTF ... we saw the other cars parked to the right of the post and thought it'd be ok Ah well. It's my first (non-work) parking fine ever - and it's a lot cheaper than some of the ones we get at work in London! But thanks for trying to get the message through to me anyway!! Quote Link to comment
+Alibags Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 If it makes you feel better, I did get flashed by a speed camera on my way to do this cache. That cost me £75 and half a day's holiday as I had to attend the naughty drivers speed awareness course. However, on the plus side, I did get to log this cache. Quote Link to comment
+Moote Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 I think Mongoose39UK and I sent around £400 doing the counties record Quote Link to comment
+Donmoore Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Walking Boots £120 Clothing £200 GPSr £110 Petrol £10 Swap Item £0.50 Getting a FTF Priceless. The Log Well didn't really cost me all that just for this one cache but it serves a humourous purpose. Quote Link to comment
+Cryptik Souls Crew Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 We flew to New York then hired a car and drove to Maryland to find a Project A.P.E. cache. It was great, I'd do it again tomorrow. Quote Link to comment
DaBeEm Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Ive got a £60 fine and 3pts, for speeding, travelling home after finding GCKWEG. The annoying thing was i had passed the location a week or so earlier without knowing there was a cache there otherwise i would have stopped then! Also a couple of weeks ago, travelling between my 999th and 1000th, i 'met' another car on a windy, single lane road. Not too much damage (to my car anyway!) but i dont know how much yet, or whether it will be an insurance claim (protected no claims and all that). That was in the middle of a lengthy 'road trip' of around 900 miles i think, so fairly high petrol costs. That's one milestone i won't forget in a hurry! Quote Link to comment
alistair_uk Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 Although I have never spent more than a £2 metro ticket to find one cache, or actually to do a maintenance visit and grab a cache on the same journey, I have probably spent a couple of hundred on weekends away and getting to events. Quote Link to comment
+purple_pineapple Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 If it makes you feel better, I did get flashed by a speed camera on my way to do this cache. That cost me £75 and half a day's holiday as I had to attend the naughty drivers speed awareness course. However, on the plus side, I did get to log this cache. How much???? I got flashed two weeks ago and the notice turned up yesterday. They haven;t told me how much it is yet, just asked who was driving (I could blame the missus I suppose!) but I was hoping for 60 quid max.... And was the driving course compulsary? I've been resigned to 3 points on my licence for the last 13 years! And I was complete aware what speed I was doing.... Oh, and the cache is archived - so I can;t even get that! lol Quote Link to comment
+slimey Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 How much???? £60 & 3 points, or £75 and 2 hours for the speed awareness course. As Liz is a new driver, she's taken the speed awareness course, otherwise she's half way to losing her license (you're only allowed 6 points in the first 2 years after you pass your test now). It's disgusting that they make you pay so much for the course, and she's really not looking forward to it. All this just for 34mph in a 30mph limit... Simon Quote Link to comment
+currykev Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 Fact: You speed you get fined.You break the law you get fined...Now lets not whinge about it eh! Quote Link to comment
+The Cache Hoppers Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 Fact: You speed you get fined.You break the law you get fined...Now lets not whinge about it eh! ***SLAP*** ..... and don't ask why, you can guess Quote Link to comment
+Alibags Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 Fact: You speed you get fined.You break the law you get fined...Now lets not whinge about it eh! I was not whingeing. I could have whinged about the fact that they changed the speed limit around Thame ring road and didn't sign the fact appropriately (in my opionion, which after the course I now see was WRONG, lol!). I do not habitually brak the speed limit. To me it was a no-brainer, £60 plus 3 points or £75 and no points... hmm, lets see.... Actually I rather enjoyed the course, I learned what an ignorant bunch my fellow road users actually are, 90% of them didn't even know what the current speed limits are. It reminded me to to pay a bit more attention, which I don't think is a bad thing. I know some other cachers who have been on this course. No names, but we are not alone. I still have a clean license too! Quote Link to comment
+Kitty Hawk Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 I wasn't offered the course, I'd have done that. Instead I bought a slower car. Adrian - 80 on a dual carriageway... Quote Link to comment
+stora Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 (edited) Getting sort off back on subject. Company Car = Free Fuel card = Free Finding £20 quid on the footpath whilst on the way to a cache. PRICELESS :D :D Edited August 8, 2006 by stora Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 'Git' P.S. That £20 was mine. I dropped it. Please mail me through my profile so we can arrange its return. Quote Link to comment
+currykev Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Getting sort off back on subject. Company Car = Free Fuel card = Free Finding £20 quid on the footpath whilst on the way to a cache. PRICLESS I do hope the missing letter is an E and not a K. Quote Link to comment
+stora Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Getting sort off back on subject. Company Car = Free Fuel card = Free Finding £20 quid on the footpath whilst on the way to a cache. PRICLESS I do hope the missing letter is an E and not a K. ooops Quote Link to comment
+wizard1974uk Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 The most one has cost be is a couple of quid for all day parking. I was bricking it though the other day, I had parked on this private driveway and I was half expecting the boys in blue to be waiting for me when I got back, so I got out of dodge quite quickly once I'd found the cache Quote Link to comment
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