How would you get a car off the top of a mountain?

[Gromit]

// A man has been charged with a driving offence after a 4x4 vehicle was found close to the summit of Snowdon.

The charges relate to driving a vehicle on common land, moorland or land which is not part of a road. //

There are four options to get it back down.

1. It could be winched off by helicopter
2. Broken up and brought down in pieces
3. Ramped onto a flat bed truck and brought down on the railway
4. Driven down

I'm favouring option 2.

[johnk]

If it was driven up it can be driven down.

[redman41]

The link is here.....silly Man

http://www.dailypost....owdon-55578-29367033/

[sandyRoe]

Roll it down the mountain.

[ummmm]

He must be bloody man...

[sandyRoe]

Just to clarify, I didn't mean roll it down on its wheels.

[anotheoldgit]

I blame the Tories, wouldn't have happened under a Labour government.

[dave50]

Why would you chop it up? Just because it is a 4x4?

[SeaJayPea]

But when Jeremy Clarkson did something similar a few years ago he didn't get prosecuted. One law for us and another for self-promoting TV stars?

[anotheoldgit]

SeaJayPea

Yes, and can you remember when the three of them joined together two cars each, and then raced each other through the streets of London to a particular venue?

One finished up separated from the back half, but continued it's journey on just the front wheels.

Would anyone else be allowed to do this?

[rov1100]

A decision has already been made:

"The Snowdonia National Park will co-operate fully with the Snowdon Mountain Railway Company to ensure the vehicle is removed from the mountain

[ummmm]

Lol....I take it you don't watch any movies!!!

[Gromit]

rov1100

Are they bringing it down a piece at a time in hand luggage?

[jake-the-peg]

I rather expect Jeremy Clarkson had permission.

Mind you he did then fly back to London with the keys in his pocket as I recall

Disappointing this, doesn't help the image of 4x4 drivers

[rov1100]

When they built the new restaurant at the top of Snowdon I assume they didn't use mule ponies. A sensible person would have said they took the materials up by train on a special wagon.

[NOX]

Not exactly a hanging offence is it, who cares how they get it down- although I assume drive it down would be by far the cheapest and simplest.

[JonnyBoy12]

I am with option 4. It would be a lot cheaper to drive it down as there is "just" the cost of the fuel, whereas a helicopter would be much more expensive and waste taxpayer's money.

I do not favour breaking it up as that would be a waste of a perfectly good car. I hate to see things being wasted and there is no need for that. I think that it should be driven down the hill.