more discusting clamping behaviour
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Just read this in my local paper :
I was clamped while trying to drive out of garage forecourt.
A YOUNG motorist was clamped while he was sitting in his car with the engine running.
Jordan Hall, 19, of Broughton Road, Hadleigh, pulled into a garage forecourt in Nelson Road, Leigh, to turn around, before pulling out back onto the road.
However, as he was pulling out a white truck reversed across the entrance of the garage, trapping him. Two clampers from Southend’s LBS Enforcement attached a clamp to his car and demanded a £434 release fee.
Mr Hall, a customer service adviser for Lloyds bank, said: “I was completely in shock about it all, and I didn’t really know what was happening at the time.
“When he came up to the car and started to put the clamp on, I just said, ‘what are you doing? I’m not parked’.
“It was pretty scary, and when I was on the phone to my mum she kept saying don’t get out of the car, but a second guy turned up who was really intimidating.
“He opened my car door, took the key out of the ignition and told me to get out of the car, so I had to get out because I was just so scared.”
The final bill to release Mr Hall’s car came to £500, which included a fee for it being taken to a compound overnight.
He was forced to use money he had spent five months saving to start his university course in September.
He added: “I have put in a request for more overtime at work. I’ll probably just have to start university with less money than I was hoping to.”
Marvin Sanz, who works at LBS Enforcement, said: “We do not just wait for people to do U-turns in the road. We have systems in place, and if people are parked illegally then we will deal with it according to the systems we use.
“We do not just jump on people, we are a professional company. We operate as a team, and we do what we are supposed to do. Our job is not easy at times.”
It is illegal to block someone’s path to the road. But Amy Balchin, spokeswoman for the Security Industry Authority, a watchdog for private firms, said there was an exception for clampers.
She said: “It is not illegal for a clamping vehicle to block a car in as long as they have a vehicle immobilisation licence which covers clamping, towing and blocking in.”
I was so angry after reading this, they can't just do it that way surely now can they ??! And how bout opening the boys cardoor and removing his keys ?!!The police doing that when they pull over a car which they think might flee that's fine, but a clamper taking your keys whist you're trying to do a manouvre can't be legal surely ?!
Medic-one said:
“He opened my car door, took the key out of the ignition and told me to get out of the car, so I had to get out because I was just so scared.”
Sounds like carjacking. Id say I feared for my life, and would have justified beating the s
t out of the guy with a adjusti-spanner that I keep in the door pocket.f
king scum.If it is true then it is ironic that by clamping the car the clamper was causing the obstruction as without the clampers intervention the driver wold have been long gone. Have the clampers got the legal right to remove your keys and order you from your vehicle?
This firm have an appalling record:
http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/3799393.Fears_for_...
http://www.thisistotalessex.co.uk/news/BILLERICAY-...
This firm have an appalling record:
http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/3799393.Fears_for_...
http://www.thisistotalessex.co.uk/news/BILLERICAY-...
Edited by rewc on Thursday 27th May 16:22
Edited by rewc on Thursday 27th May 16:26
Just dawned on me...
If the clamper had taken your key from you, just let them have it, have them take the key away and the car away. Phone the police saying that your car has been stolen by burly men who had a clamp, threatened you until you gave your key up and took your car to an unknown address being held at ransom!
If the clamper had taken your key from you, just let them have it, have them take the key away and the car away. Phone the police saying that your car has been stolen by burly men who had a clamp, threatened you until you gave your key up and took your car to an unknown address being held at ransom!
Jayho said:
Just dawned on me...
If the clamper had taken your key from you, just let them have it, have them take the key away and the car away. Phone the police saying that your car has been stolen by burly men who had a clamp, threatened you until you gave your key up and took your car to an unknown address being held at ransom!
And when plod do turn up the week after, youll be arrested because you dont have your driving docs with you, and the burly men have claimed that you have jumped in their car.If the clamper had taken your key from you, just let them have it, have them take the key away and the car away. Phone the police saying that your car has been stolen by burly men who had a clamp, threatened you until you gave your key up and took your car to an unknown address being held at ransom!
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