A crushing experience.
Discussion
Not the first time this has happened:
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Where exactly is it written that I've agreed or accepted, when I by my road tax, that my local council can tow away and rush my legally taxed, insured and owned vehicle, or that I have to keep an eye on it for damage to it every 24 hrs?
We can't have one rule where I pay £180/yr to keep my vehicle on the road, and another that gives an admin body the right to steel and crush my car, surely?
May be writing to my MP, If I can remember who I vited in last time!
Virgil.
We can't have one rule where I pay £180/yr to keep my vehicle on the road, and another that gives an admin body the right to steel and crush my car, surely?
May be writing to my MP, If I can remember who I vited in last time!
Virgil.
So a car left for 4 days is counted as abandoned. That's most cars in airport carparks then, for a start. Completely mad.
If the car was parked dangerously, or didn't have a tax disc (presumably stolen as part of the break-in), then I could perhaps understand it being moved. But then to go straight to crushing less than 24 hours later, it's insane. And then to dispose of the contents of the car when I'm sure they had contact details on them, in that well-worn phrase it "beggars belief".
This really needs national focus. It would feed nicely into the select committee's study on parking decriminalisation, for a start. Let's hope all this has not been in vain.
If the car was parked dangerously, or didn't have a tax disc (presumably stolen as part of the break-in), then I could perhaps understand it being moved. But then to go straight to crushing less than 24 hours later, it's insane. And then to dispose of the contents of the car when I'm sure they had contact details on them, in that well-worn phrase it "beggars belief".
This really needs national focus. It would feed nicely into the select committee's study on parking decriminalisation, for a start. Let's hope all this has not been in vain.
Get a good lawyer and put their arses into the bacon slicer would be my advice. If this happened to my oldest grandson and the 'N-reg' Escort I bought him for his birthday I would go all-the-way to the high courts with it.
Just who do these 'jobsworth tossers' think they are to destroy someone's cherished property without so much as a 'by your leave' and then try to justify it with lies and deception. Guilty of 'Criminal Damage'and theft maybe.
I wonder if it had been fully comprehensively insured how the insurers would treat the claim. Now, an insurance company has the clout and financial ability to really fight these people.
Just who do these 'jobsworth tossers' think they are to destroy someone's cherished property without so much as a 'by your leave' and then try to justify it with lies and deception. Guilty of 'Criminal Damage'and theft maybe.
I wonder if it had been fully comprehensively insured how the insurers would treat the claim. Now, an insurance company has the clout and financial ability to really fight these people.
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