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Education Jailbreak!

Discussion in 'General' started by profqwerty, 17 Oct 2008.

  1. profqwerty

    profqwerty What's a Dremel?

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    Hi all,

    I'm at Bristol Uni at the moment, and one of the societies is organising an event called "Jailbreak" whereupon you have to get as far as possible away from here in 36hrs for FREE. It starts on Nov 8th.

    I'm suspecting as soon as it starts, everyone's going to try to get to Bristol airport and give Ryanair the same story "every mile we go is £3". Therefore after the 2nd person turns up they're going to say "NO!".

    Last year rumour has it someone got to Arizona....

    Sooo. The main rule is you're not allowed to spend any money on travel. However there's nothing against planning ahead.

    If we were to get to Stansted or Luton we might be able to try Ryanair or Easyjet there. How might people recommend getting to these places? Train travel is getting more difficult to go free (not that I do :worried:) and I don't think they'd be allll too sympathetic. Hitchhiking that distance is gonna be tough!

    So yeah. Does anyone have any ideas? We go in pairs, and tbh if I don't get abroad I'd be VERY disappointed!

    Thanks!
    profqwerty

    (It's marked as Education as it's a Uni organised event :p)
     
  2. badders

    badders Neuken in de Keuken

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    Go missing for 80 days, then tell everyone you went all the way around the world.
     
  3. mookboy

    mookboy BRAAAAAAP

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    What's stopping you cheating?
     
  4. 13eightyfour

    13eightyfour Formerly Titanium Angel

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    Thats what i was thinking? i suppose if you got all the way to arizona then you'd have to explain how and im guessing it could be checked up.

    Swim to france :hehe: even if somebody went further it wudnt be as impressive :thumb:
     
  5. Krikkit

    Krikkit All glory to the hypnotoad! Super Moderator

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    If you make it up to Manchester I'll take you a tank further north for free if you like. :)
     
  6. alastor

    alastor Minimodder

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    People have made it to America a couple of times now I think, have no idea how though. It's something I'd like to do but I doubt I'd be overly successful for RAG purposes.

    Good luck with yours! :D
     
  7. dragontail

    dragontail 5bet Bluffer

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    Couple of my mates did it last year and they reached Poland. Apparently the ferry was the way to go.
     
  8. knuck

    knuck Hate your face

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    what if you do anything illegal, are you automatically out ?

    I hope so
     
  9. twentynine

    twentynine Can never win...

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    I too wonder this. How is it verified? Does sound like fun though. I wish I could partake in such an adventure!
     
  10. profqwerty

    profqwerty What's a Dremel?

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    Well It's all in the name of fun I guess, you could cheat but what's the point? They say buy a local newspaper to prove it :)
     
  11. Xen0phobiak

    Xen0phobiak SMEGHEADS!

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    Cue bit-tech'ers posting you newspapers from the 8th and 9th of nov?
     
  12. steveo_mcg

    steveo_mcg What's a Dremel?

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    Have one of the kiwis post you a paper, then work out some elaborate tale as to how you got there. You'd of course come clean but it'd be funny for a few minutes.
     
  13. kingred

    kingred Surfacing sucks!

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    join the army, go to iraq.
     
  14. Ryu_ookami

    Ryu_ookami I write therefore I suffer.

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    Ok, just out of curiosity's sake if you do manage to talk someone from ryanair or where ever into giving you a free flight to the States or even further away, how the hell are you meant to get back ?
     
  15. cpemma

    cpemma Ecky thump

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    It helps if you know somebody high-up with the airline who gets an allocation of free tickets. ;)
     
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