A story of dishonesty, daylight robbery, disgust and deceit.
Discussion
B Oeuf said:
Mr Green said:
bout frigging time the whole lot of them were banned never mind 'controlled'F i F said:
As above, why didn't you ask for a new date if you were in the middle of something that could not be missed?
Thread with 40-odd wasted pages.
I'd have more respect if you'd said "OK lads at the last minute I just bottled it."
I have to agree.Thread with 40-odd wasted pages.
I'd have more respect if you'd said "OK lads at the last minute I just bottled it."
Edited by F i F on Friday 20th November 10:02
On the court allocation questionnaire you can specify dates that you are not available. Failing that, you can still ask the court to alter the date should you not be able to attend.
Failing even that, you can provide a witness statement and supply evidence.
To be honest, if he knew that he wasn't doing any of those, the best thing to do would be to inform all parties that the case was being dropped. At least that way he would have avoided the bill from the clampers coming to court.
The final outcome is that effectively that the OP has paid even more for his clamping...
oldsoak said:
B Oeuf said:
Mr Green said:
bout frigging time the whole lot of them were banned never mind 'controlled'I warned about this quite a few pages back. What this legislation will do is legitimise the buggers which is the last thing we want.
By all means private landowners have to have some method to deal with people who abuse their land. Clamping should not be one of those means, Scotland has dealt with it correctly.
By all means legislate about the private parking situation and take it away from civil law, really put the sods under notice to clean up their respective acts. To be honest I would include something about landowners having to have made some effort to deal with access, and not just by sticking a few grotty faded notices up.
No doubt if this even gets to the statute book before the pre-election slash and burn exercise, it will not have been thought through properly and will make things worse. << Prediction based on prev Labour legislation.
IMO It was brave of you to take them on, I wouldn't have. That said the people that said beating them was a done deal encouraged you to challenge this(possibly unfair) charge and now moan because due to the pressures of life it didn't work out, the least they could do is to say well done for trying.
Well done anyway.
Well done anyway.
Dizeee
It's a shame you didn't see it through - whatever the reasons.
Can't understand why you didnt adjust the date or at the very least send in a letter and statement explaining your circumstances... but there you go.
I for one was rooting for you, as was JustinP1 judging by his detailed advice.
All the best.
It's a shame you didn't see it through - whatever the reasons.
Can't understand why you didnt adjust the date or at the very least send in a letter and statement explaining your circumstances... but there you go.
I for one was rooting for you, as was JustinP1 judging by his detailed advice.
All the best.
Two ways to deal with this:
1) Get a garage to tow away the car complete with clamp. Send clampers the bill for car-ing the clamp (i.e. the opposite of clamping the car). This has actually been done!
2) Get a banger and park it on the space. Keep doing this. Keep reporting any removal of a car as theft. Say you'll stop if all costs are paid. Tell Argos that their manager is complicit in the theft (as his store employs the people making the theft) and cc him/her correspondence with the BiB. Tell him this face to face and tell him that you'll carry on until your bill is paid. Any bets on how many bangers you'd need?
Why can't you remove the clamp? Surely if you insist that the clamp is a component of your car and therefore your property the onus is on everyone else to prove that it isn't yours?
There's another way. Never park in a space with a clamping sign anywhere near it unless you are clearly displaying a correct ticket/residents card/etc. I do this. Worked so far.
1) Get a garage to tow away the car complete with clamp. Send clampers the bill for car-ing the clamp (i.e. the opposite of clamping the car). This has actually been done!
2) Get a banger and park it on the space. Keep doing this. Keep reporting any removal of a car as theft. Say you'll stop if all costs are paid. Tell Argos that their manager is complicit in the theft (as his store employs the people making the theft) and cc him/her correspondence with the BiB. Tell him this face to face and tell him that you'll carry on until your bill is paid. Any bets on how many bangers you'd need?
Why can't you remove the clamp? Surely if you insist that the clamp is a component of your car and therefore your property the onus is on everyone else to prove that it isn't yours?
There's another way. Never park in a space with a clamping sign anywhere near it unless you are clearly displaying a correct ticket/residents card/etc. I do this. Worked so far.
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