Unexpected Expenses

[ipplepen]

I was enjoying a great days caching yesterday, with an early morning Dartmoor hike and then an afternoon caching in Torquay. One more quick cache to end a great day I thought. Thirty minute on a car park ticket and a quick dash to

The beach manager Quaywest

A bit of a search turned up nothing - oh never mind I thought as I strolled into the beach front pub and ordered a pint to quench a caching generated thirst. Forty minutes later I returned to the car to find a FIFTY pound parking fine!

 

I open the bidding at a fifty pound fine for a DNF .

How much has a cache cost you?

 

NB. Only include failed marriages if you can identify the cache which broke the camels back and dare to declare how much the divorce has cost you!

[Jantaculum]

I'm not going to admit how much Honestly, don't bother cost me because Mr Jantac may be reading the forum.......... all I will say is that putting a cache next to TKMaxx is asking for trouble

Edited May 17, 2009 by Jantaculum

[+sTeamTraen]

I took out the oil pan on my car while driving too fast down a rutted forest track. Repair bill 750 Euros.

[+Bill D (wwh)]

I seem to have got off rather lightly... My car was broken into once whilst I was caching - one of the rear passenger windows was smashed but nothing was taken. It was covered by the insurance, but there was an £80 excess. So I got a window from a scrapyard and fitted it myself - £20 for the window, and £5 or so in petrol as I couldn't find one at any of the scrapyards near me. So just £25 or so in total. But the worst bit was continuing to find bits of glass in the car for years afterward...!

[+currykev]

 

NB. Only include failed marriages if you can identify the cache which broke the camels back and dare to declare how much the divorce has cost you!

 

Divorce ££££'s

Money well spent.

[+Al & Tracy Smith]

I can think of two caching trips that cost more than bargined for:

 

1. Got caught by a mobile speed camera going to GCJF0D and the nearby trig on the way to visit some relatives. So £60, 3 points and we only had time for the trig as we were running late! However, as a bonus we was able to log this cache GC38D4.

 

2. The other was after a nice stroll around Leigh Side Woods on returning to the car some git had smashed the rear window and pinched the mount for my PDA/GPS - so £50 insurance excess and the cost of a new mount from MIO.

[team tisri]

I was enjoying a great days caching yesterday, with an early morning Dartmoor hike and then an afternoon caching in Torquay. One more quick cache to end a great day I thought. Thirty minute on a car park ticket and a quick dash to

The beach manager Quaywest

A bit of a search turned up nothing - oh never mind I thought as I strolled into the beach front pub and ordered a pint to quench a caching generated thirst. Forty minutes later I returned to the car to find a FIFTY pound parking fine!

 

I open the bidding at a fifty pound fine for a DNF .

How much has a cache cost you?

 

NB. Only include failed marriages if you can identify the cache which broke the camels back and dare to declare how much the divorce has cost you!

 

I don't suppose the cost of a bike to get around more quickly than on foot counts?

[+drsolly]

Groundedf landrover on byway -> repairs and replacements for underside -> over £1000

Smashed window+stolen Mio -> Several hundred

Cow ran at me in the road at night and I couldn't stop in time -> over £1000

 

If only I was an MP, I'd put it all on expenses.