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Offline Luke1981

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wheel clampers
« on: 21 February 2012, 13:58 »
Got a phone call from the wife in floods of tears saying she has just been clamped! She parked in a private car park so she could pick someone's dog up and take it to the vets!

The clamper watched her park up and the clamp was on by the time she got out.
I got the release fee in 5 pence coins, 80 quids worth and now he is refusing to take it.

As I write this I am in a Mexican standoff with the bloke and I have got all day to wait!

Fuming!
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Offline SoundillusioN

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Re: wheel clampers
« Reply #1 on: 21 February 2012, 14:04 »
Got a phone call from the wife in floods of tears saying she has just been clamped! She parked in a private car park so she could pick someone's dog up and take it to the vets!

The clamper watched her park up and the clamp was on by the time she got out.
I got the release fee in 5 pence coins, 80 quids worth and now he is refusing to take it.

As I write this I am in a Mexican standoff with the bloke and I have got all day to wait!

Fuming!

cnut!.....

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Offline raptorSE

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Re: wheel clampers
« Reply #2 on: 21 February 2012, 14:49 »
Its legal currency so the cnut cant refuse it. I would be swinging him around by his ears then cutting the clamp off with an angle grider and violently inserting said bag of 5 pence pieces somewhere dark and smelly  :grin:
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Offline Luke1981

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Re: wheel clampers
« Reply #3 on: 21 February 2012, 14:59 »
just paid the fooking fatherless son £80 quid after keeping him waiting for 2 hours!

The predatory sh!t house was probably thinking " ahh there is a single female who is easy prey for me "

I tried to take the clamp off but he wrapped the chain around the drive shaft and I didn't have an angle grinder or bolt crops handy.

I sincerely hope he is involved in a fatal crash on the way home.  :angry:
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Re: wheel clampers
« Reply #4 on: 21 February 2012, 15:01 »
f**k that sh!t! Completely illegal


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Re: wheel clampers
« Reply #5 on: 21 February 2012, 15:11 »
f**k that sh!t! Completely illegal

i dont think they are illegal until march iirc

Offline Luke1981

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Re: wheel clampers
« Reply #6 on: 21 February 2012, 15:16 »
f**k that sh!t! Completely illegal

Thats what I initially thought, but apparently not when private land is involved!

I would have it if the mrs parked her van in someones parking bay and buggered off to the shops for an hour, but she parked in the dog owners bay for less than 5 minutes.

Felt like a useless cnut as all I wanted to do was fill him in, but I would end up nicked and out of a job!

These cowboys know exactly what they can and cant get away with.

Talk about pants down over a barrel!
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Offline clipperjay

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Re: wheel clampers
« Reply #7 on: 21 February 2012, 15:22 »
Buy a Roxy kit they work a treat on any chain clamp (Shooo) five minutes you're gone!
£80 not bad, I've been done £350 @ 1.50am, but mine was towed away impounded, no time for blow torches  :rolleyes:
Had a ticket aswell but in wrong bay marked K instead of H tricky father less sons!

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Re: wheel clampers
« Reply #8 on: 21 February 2012, 15:31 »
f**k that sh!t! Completely illegal

Thats what I initially thought, but apparently not when private land is involved!

I would have it if the mrs parked her van in someones parking bay and buggered off to the shops for an hour, but she parked in the dog owners bay for less than 5 minutes.

Felt like a useless cnut as all I wanted to do was fill him in, but I would end up nicked and out of a job!

These cowboys know exactly what they can and cant get away with.

Talk about pants down over a barrel!

Woooaahhhh so let me get this straight... Its the dog owners bay!? You had permission to use it? So what was the problem??


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Re: wheel clampers
« Reply #9 on: 21 February 2012, 15:33 »
That's bad luck man. There is a special place in hell for people like them.
Happened to me once I just cut the f@@ker off since its illegal in Scotland. Needless to say guy wasn't happy lol
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