BenB
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| posted on 12/5/08 at 06:36 PM |
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Laugh out loud!!!! One cure for clamping...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7395452.stm
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graememk
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| posted on 12/5/08 at 06:43 PM |
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couldnt he of just cut one wheel off ?
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 12/5/08 at 06:58 PM |
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or do us all a favour and cut the clamper in half
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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Blakey_boy
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| posted on 12/5/08 at 07:04 PM |
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To be honest and I don't care who is watching and reading but I was clamped at 1030 on a monday morning approx 10 mins after i left the car to
get the tax on my Galaxy after purchasing it on the previous Saturday at 1530 in the afternoon.
All the officious stupid idiotic B$£"H could say to me on the phone was that it was an untaxed vehicle on the road and should be taxed therefore
we (NCP again) will clamp it even though it should have been parked on a driveway or on private land before getting tax on the vehicle. PLUS why didnt
I get the tax when Purchasing the vehicle. Where does one get road tax on Saturday afternoon?.
I live in a street of terraced houses and no garages anywhere?. How stupid and thick must she be.
Needless to say after appealing the A$%£$£*E at their head office said exactly the same. But justification is on its way as I have reported the
tactics of the Clamping officer (in the loosest terms) to the DVLA on his actions in that he saw me at my vehicle and did not approach me to ask about
the vehicle in any way.
I will probably get nowhere in getting my £80 back. Even though I have witnesses to the problem and their evidence in writing.
I am sorry if I go on a bit but this thing makes my blood boil when road pirates and theives such as NCP take money by legalised theft off
unsuspecting people who try to obey the law and the rear end wipes that come into this country and get away with this and us law abiders get
punished.
[Edited on 12/5/08 by Blakey_boy]
Gene Hunt:- If anything happens to that car, I'm coming round your house and stomping on your toys, Understand?
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mookaloid
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| posted on 12/5/08 at 07:12 PM |
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It won't help him as he still has to pay the fine 
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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graememk
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| posted on 12/5/08 at 07:38 PM |
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i've always wanted to clamp a clampers van just for a laugh
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mistergrumpy
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| posted on 12/5/08 at 08:38 PM |
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quote:
Where does one get road tax on Saturday afternoon?.
The Post Office or online. The DVLA at our place won't lift your car unless its at least 28 days out and not at all if it is taxed despite not
displaying it. I may not be entirely right but I seem to remember reading an insurance schedule that also says that if the vehicle is not fully
MOT'd and fully taxed then the policy is invalid.
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Guinness
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| posted on 12/5/08 at 09:02 PM |
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The DVLA, or their "sub-contractors" have a habit of working early Sunday morning round our way. They have a transit van with ANPR
cameras on it, which drives up and down the streets. Soon as the computer tells them they have a hit, they clamp it.
Regularly see a handful of cars clamped on my way to work on Monday morning.
Mike
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Simon
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| posted on 13/5/08 at 12:09 AM |
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What he should have done, was called a scrappy and told him to come and collect the car (with a hyab)
See how quickly the donkey would have removed his clamp then!
ATB
Simon
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mcerd1
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| posted on 13/5/08 at 09:56 AM |
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It seems a bit harsh to clamp it, but its only what I'd expect when this kind of work is contracted out to the private sector 
but then south of the border you've also got wheel clamping on private land, which is "illegal in Scotland on the grounds that it
constitutes extortion and theft"
I remeber something about someone down south getting a fine for having 2 wheels on the edge of a private parking area while they where stopped for a
few minutes at a pick up point in a station carpark 
they where spotted by a camera, but wern't there long enough to get clamped, so they got a fine in the post
[Edited on 13/5/08 by mcerd1]
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BenB
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| posted on 13/5/08 at 11:11 AM |
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Wot really annoyed me is when I got a parking ticket for "having a wheel up on the kerb", the fact that on some roads round here you have
to park up the kerb to leave enough road for cars to go down is largely ignored.....
Apparantly in the whole of Greater London if you park with a wheel on the kerb you're up for a ticket (unless there's a sign saying
that it's okay to do so)....
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mcerd1
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| posted on 13/5/08 at 11:45 AM |
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a few years ago a woman down the road got done for not parking parallel to the kerb / facing the wrong way in a one way street (or something to that
effect anyway)
she'd reversed her smart into the space
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