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 Looks like it still has the registration plate on it... so why don't the Police give the owner a call and ask what's going on? I guess it could have been nicked and driven up there! Anyway... that track looks easy-peasy compared to places I've seen vehicles go in Iceland!
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Cry for the track thats possibly been damaged by the jeep - laugh at the fact the guy had to wakj home! Hope he considered all meanings of the word "Stupidity" on the way 
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 Maybe the person in question was merely following the directions of the voice on the TomTom sat nav.......
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 Parked up with a "£1000 ono" sticker on the w/screen I'll bet!
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Well I'm laughing because near me in the Lakes they can get cars up AND down our main mountains like Helvellyn. Heck they even landed a plane and took off one of our hills. Having said that Snowdon is a bit tougher. Well it would be without that damn railway up it. I think Ben Nevis has the worst for stuff being dumped on it. Correct me if I'm wrong but there is a local with a tendancy for probably drunken bets about carrying stuff up there like a piano and fridge I think. I believe he and some others had a tidy up session which included taking down the piano and other stuff he and others have taken up there and dumped. Anyway easy enough to trace owner and I'm sure there will be more to come out on this. I seriously would like to know if there is anyway of getting it off the hill and charging the idiot who got it there or allowed his vehicle to be taken up there. Reckon if it can't be safely driven down it would cost a bit to take off by other means. Perhaps the railway could take it but looking at the extortionate prices of their tickets way back when I last looked into taking the railway (about 15 years ago) in todays prices I reckon it would be cheaper to airlift it out. BTW I was laughing. Slap a parking ticket on it, then another and another until the owner takes it down.
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 on another site it mentions the guy spent the night in the cells.
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Two or three years ago a white van drove up a track near Bergun in Switzerland. The track got steadily narrower and steeper....... The Swiss used a helicopter to recover it.
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 Sorry guys.  It was a mates stag weekend, woke up at the hotel the next morning and wondered were the car was! My bad... 
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 I see someone from Gloustershire has been charged and released. Apparently it was on his "50 top things to do before you die" list. I dunno what the other 49 are but Keira Knightley has been put under police protection. 
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I might get lynched for this on here.. But that route up Snowdon has probably been made infinitely more interesting by that Frontera being ditched there - I've joked about that track practically being a motorway before, seems someone thought it actually was  . I hardly think there is grounds for complaining about 'ruining the mountain' given that bloody train and glorified roadside cafe on top. I love the area, but they could build a Weatherspoons on the summit for all I care.. Actually, a cheap pint might actually give me a reason to bother going to it rather than avoid it like a leper colony as I do at the moment!
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I might get lynched for this on here.. But that route up Snowdon has probably been made infinitely more interesting by that Frontera being ditched there - I've joked about that track practically being a motorway before, seems someone thought it actually was As Rocky's link says, he drove up the railway rather than the track.
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 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14784515
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-14791178
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Just watched the video, no one comes off well. Seems like he ran out of time before the train service started in the morning and left it on the side of the tracks. I like the "concerned walker" bumbling about leaving the mountain as you find it... whilst standing next to a filthy railway line and a few hundred metres from a cafe! And the official bumbling about every other option of getting it down... bar driving it!  I can imagine someone will try again now, probably out of season.
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 I don't know which is daftest... the car... the clothes they're wearing... or the hats. I think you look OK in that clip Paddy
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 I think it's hilarious, Britian is famous for it's eccentrics, bloody good on him/them for sticking two fingers up at the "law".
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Each to his own, I was part of a party that carried a Christmas tree up Snowdon on Christmas Day (and back down), all for charity of course, which I thought of as being eccentric. Didn't harm anybody. Driving a car up the railway track, I think, qualifies the guy for the Darwin Awards. Too may train accidents caused by drivers leaving their cars draped across railway tracks, like the major accidents recently at Reading and Selby with lots of fatalities. I wonder if the guy was caught out be the non-timetable early morning train carrying staff and supplies up the cafe? I know I was surprised once camping not far from the track to be woken at 5a.m. by a train rumbling by.
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