That reminds me: Sometime in the 1960s, I read an article in a colour supplement about the air-sea rescue people. Apparently, on one occasion, a woman was rescued from the foot of a cliff (incoming tide iirc), but managed to leave behind her fur coat. Her husband sent the coastguards a bill for several hundred pounds to cover the cost of the coat's replacement; by return of post came a bill for several thousand quid, marked "call-out fee".