£1,300 parking bill for 5 minutes!
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A council worker today faces a bill of more than £1,300 after leaving his car for less than five minutes while he collected his niece from an evening class.
www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=515354&in_review_text_id=479326
Private parking enforcers must be stopped... with some bloodshed if possible...
Here's what we all should do:
1. buy 2 full size wheel clamp from halfords, about £100,
2. Go out looking for these private clampers and clamp 1 front wheel and 1 back one,
3. after arguing, demand as much money as you like to remove the 2 clamps, also charge for call out charge (even though no body called you out) labour charges, repair to the clamp charges, McD's charges, magazine you have to buy charges and ciggy charges. Total should be in the region of £2000. If they can not pay on the spot tow the van away and carge them for storage, admin and new TV for the office.
I think all this should work
1. buy 2 full size wheel clamp from halfords, about £100,
2. Go out looking for these private clampers and clamp 1 front wheel and 1 back one,
3. after arguing, demand as much money as you like to remove the 2 clamps, also charge for call out charge (even though no body called you out) labour charges, repair to the clamp charges, McD's charges, magazine you have to buy charges and ciggy charges. Total should be in the region of £2000. If they can not pay on the spot tow the van away and carge them for storage, admin and new TV for the office.
I think all this should work
- can't clamp that!These guys take the clamp off pretty sharpish when you produce a petrol cut off saw from the boot. It works especially well when you explain to them that the saw cuts through clamps, locks , flesh, bone etc with equal effortlessnes. Try it believe me it works a treat. £50 quid froma second hand tool shop.
£50 quid froma second hand tool shop.What makes it worse is that the contracts that most of these 'people' work under don't even indemnify the landowners and are an absolute licence to print money. Legislation is pending to make it illegal for the clampers to employ convicted criminals which will be badnews for one company working in SW London and I believe a bill to control the excesses of the worst is being drafted, it can't come quick enough can it.
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nonegreen - that's an excellent idea, very organised! Is it a reciprocating saw designed for metal than? Does it have a special name?
Nah Its like a petrol driven angle grinder with a 10 inch blade, made by stihl, if you remember the advert where the guy cuts the roof off the VW for some chicks (jam rag advert I think) well ot is like one of those. I don't carry it all the time you understand, just when I go shopping
These so called clamp merchants tried it on me one day when I worked for BT, the guy didnt know I was in the van getting some equipment for the job I was on & legally parked on the land that the customer owned (he was the illegal one) & had apparently done this to other people who I must say were not connected to the customer & he did not have permission to clamp, to cut a long story short, I destroyed his clamps,cut off his bolt on radio ariels (this is pre mobile phone days)& he couldn't call for reinforcements,I then informed him in no uncertain terms that his company would become a target by all the district BT engineers, the customer sued the firm for the clamping fees that had been illegally charged...I dont know what the outcome of that was.
Funny thing though after their vans were constantly harrased & blocked in where ever they were spotted trying it on with other people, they seemed to disapear never to return.
However I do not recomend taking the law into ones own hands, because I got a bit of stick from my boss,
Funny thing though after their vans were constantly harrased & blocked in where ever they were spotted trying it on with other people, they seemed to disapear never to return.
However I do not recomend taking the law into ones own hands, because I got a bit of stick from my boss,
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A council worker today faces a bill of more than £1,300 after leaving his car for less than five minutes while he collected his niece from an evening class.
www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=515354&in_review_text_id=479326
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Private parking enforcers must be stopped... with some bloodshed if possible...
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Private parking enforcers must be stopped... with some bloodshed if possible...
Even the Electric Chair is too good for these low life parasites. Perhaps something less humane such as hanging, drawing and quartering (as in at the end of the film "Braveheart")............NICE
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