Muggled!

[+drsolly]

So I trundled up to the red phone box, expecting another easy find. And I could even see the cache from the outside.

 

But the phone box was locked, with a substantial-looking four-digit combination lock.

[Raver Dave]

Nice, sure it wasn't a novelty puzzle cache?

[+Gushoneybun]

Wot no slugs

[+Team Noodles]

So I trundled up to the red phone box, expecting another easy find. And I could even see the cache from the outside.

But the phone box was locked, with a substantial-looking four-digit combination lock.

 

thats pretty much how I spotted it

 

shame they locked it though, perhaps it's going to be removed soon?

[+Hampk]

Time for a 'needs maintenance' log?

[+NattyBooshka]

I can't believe a man with nigh on 20k finds let a puzzle stage defeat him

 

Must remember to pack my bolt cutters for the next trip.

[+thehoomer]

Excache-ectory perhaps? Did you try 1471?

[+t4e]

what's the GC code?

[+drsolly]

I can't believe a man with nigh on 20k finds let a puzzle stage defeat him

 

Must remember to pack my bolt cutters for the next trip.

 

I did actually think about hacking the lock, as I walked back from the next cache I did; there's a technique for dealing with combination locks that I've used before. But then I thought, "I'm counting the slugs" wouldn't get me out of aggro if I got asked what I was doing, so I thought, keyn tsurus, and posted a "Needs maintenance".

[+drsolly]

what's the GC code?

 

http://coord.info/GC2E566

[+NattyBooshka]

I can't believe a man with nigh on 20k finds let a puzzle stage defeat him

 

Must remember to pack my bolt cutters for the next trip.

 

I did actually think about hacking the lock, as I walked back from the next cache I did; there's a technique for dealing with combination locks that I've used before. But then I thought, "I'm counting the slugs" wouldn't get me out of aggro if I got asked what I was doing, so I thought, keyn tsurus, and posted a "Needs maintenance".

I think the slugs took refuge in the phonebox and got a friendly snail to lock them in... they were probably hiding under the little shelf that used to have phonebooks on it before teens discovered they burn quite well. Thinking about it... I may have been responsible for that

[+Pharisee]

I always carry a rechargeable 'Dremel' kit in my car boot, which includes a mandrel with tiny cutting discs. It makes short work of padlocks, cutting through the hardened steel in a few second. Very useful in an emergency !! Not that I'm recommending that you use one, of course.

[+dfx]

Funny that on google street view, there's no sign of the phone box

[+NattyBooshka]

Funny that on google street view, there's no sign of the phone box

Slugs! They're everywhere... even at Google HQ

[+dgwebster]

Id place a bet it is being removed or altered. BT are making a fairly hefty loss on phone boxes these days, with several thousand bringing no money at all, but requiring repairs etc. and another 16,000 (iirc) that still operate at a loss.

 

the red box however is much an icon and for roughly £300 per year people/communities can pay for the box to be there with phone. Alternatively, the phone service can be removed and the box itself adopted by the locals.

[+pitkin2020]

Id place a bet it is being removed or altered. BT are making a fairly hefty loss on phone boxes these days, with several thousand bringing no money at all, but requiring repairs etc. and another 16,000 (iirc) that still operate at a loss.

 

the red box however is much an icon and for roughly £300 per year people/communities can pay for the box to be there with phone. Alternatively, the phone service can be removed and the box itself adopted by the locals.

 

The actual phonebox (the old red ones) are worth a fair bit of money there are some collectors out there for them.

[+dgwebster]

A neighbour to my parents bought one about 20 years ago and had it installed in their garden, complete with working phone.

[+Pharisee]

Someone carried a red box up Beinn Chaorack in the Western Highlands last year and placed it squarely over the trig-point. (see HERE) I climbed that hill back in 2003 and it was hard works just carrying a ruck sack, Lord only knows how they got a red phone box up there!

[+drsolly]

I always carry a rechargeable 'Dremel' kit in my car boot, which includes a mandrel with tiny cutting discs. It makes short work of padlocks, cutting through the hardened steel in a few second. Very useful in an emergency !! Not that I'm recommending that you use one, of course.

 

I'd rather use subtlety and lockpicks than brute force and drilling. In the case of combo locks, there's a shortcut to discovering the combo, I expect googling will lead you to it. But it still takes some time, and looks suspicious. And I don't have my "I'm not doing anything suspicious" card yet.

[team tisri]

The cache is titled "The old red telephone box 0007". Don't suppose anybody tried 0007 as the combination to the lock?