Is nowhere sacred from the car cult?

[captain nemo1701]

Idiot drives up Snowdon:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14784515

The option for returning the vehicle to him should be to cut it up into very, very tiny pieces, carry them down and charge him lots of cash for doing so - £100/kilo??.

 

[Moodyman]

Don't see owt wrong with it.

It's a 4x4 and that's precisely the sort of terrain their designed for.

Better up there than on the high street.

 

[albion]

Obviously he trespassed on the railway.It maye turn out to be a mega expensive jaunt unless it was nicked.

 

[Mad at urage]

Don't see owt wrong with it.

It's a 4x4 and that's precisely the sort of terrain their designed for.

Better up there than on the high street.

"Vehicles are not allowed on the mountain." for a start.

 

[Globalti]

I really don''t know why they branded that as a dangerous stunt; I have plenty of experience driving proper off road vehicles (Land Rovers) in some fairly challenging situations including a couple downright frightening. I also know that track well having walked it and cycled it many times. A Land Rover would have got up it easily so I can only conclude that they are calling it dangerous so as to discourage any other muppet who fancies a go having seen it's so easy that even a Vauxhall can get up there.

 

[captain nemo1701]

The obvious problem here is that not only did he put himself and others at risk, he put his own ambition (a pretty dumb one if you ask me), ahead of respect for space that is meant to be traffic-free. It's a bit like some annoying idiots who sometimes ride their scooters/motorbikes along the Bristol Railway Path (I was once almost hit by some twat on a trials motorbike who did this. Luckily, he was nicked).

What if he'd crashed and needed mountain rescue?. There is no difference here between this guy and those who insist on driving on pavements, barging into the ASL and whom have the attitude of 'I can drive anywhere I damn well please'. Cheeky sod couldn't be arsed to drive down the mountain, now leaving others to deal with it. He should be charged with littering amongst other things.

I am of the belief that some spaces in our green and pleasant land should be car/motorbike free for us all to enjoy without a ton of polluting metal and plastic spoiling it . This twit has now encouarged others to do the same. I understand that the National Trust has a problem with illegal motorbikes ridden carelessly on it's land, spoiling the surfaces which get churned up. The last thing we need in wild areas like this are dumb 4x4 twits. Since the majority of UK residents live in cities, why the hell do they need a vehicle capable of going up mountains?. It's about ego, nothing else.

I hope this guy gets a driving ban. Then, without his wheels to which he is no doubt addicted, maybe he can reflect on being silly .

 

[BSRU]

This was in the news last week, it was on his list of his fifty things to do before he died.
They interviewed the driver when he came to pick up the car after it had been recovered using the train, he seemed a right dimwit.

 

[Globalti]

Where's Linford?

 

[mickle]

This was in the news last week, it was on his list of his fifty things to do before he died.
They interviewed the driver when he came to pick up the car after it had been recovered using the train, he seemed a right dimwit.

Can someone kill him soon then before he does anything else stoopid.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

If he'd got it back down again (and I don't quite understand why he didn't), I bet no one would have been any the wiser. I'd love to have a crack at getting my Fourtrak up there. I haven't walked it for a few years, but the last time I did I remember thinking it'd be a great drive.

 

[ASC1951]

I'd love to have a crack at getting my Fourtrak up there.

Only a tosspot would take a vehicle up there. But you're just trying to wind us up.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Only a tosspot would take a vehicle up there. But you're just trying to wind us up.

Well, that's true (both parts) in as much as it's illegal to drive up Snowdon. But if there was, I don't know, some sort of societal meltdown and there was no one left to care whether people drove up Snowdon, I'd certainly love to have a go at it. I think it'd be great fun, and the only reason you need to be a tosspot to do it is that at the moment it involves breaking laws.

 

[Norm]

If it is such a heinous crime, how come no-one seems to have seen him going up?

It is not allowed but, other than that, what is the problem trying it? For instance, is it worse than those who try to beat the record by racing down on MTBs.

 

[Zoiders]

I have watched 4x4's and the odd Argo being used to run dressed stone up the peaks in Brecon for path maintanance so getting a 4x4 up Snowdon isn't entirely as perilous as it seems, the goon in question probably just lost his bottle as it was dark and he bottomed out his vehicle.

Of course you don't want every knobber thinking it's ok to turn the peak into a 4X4 course but I question the bit in the interview claiming that the National Park & Emergency services would never attempt to get a vehicle up there as they very obviously do from time to time for various reasons.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Wrong choice of vehicle.

I'd have taken a Hummer.