Steve 1 - Clampers 0

That is great SB :)

Hopefully the woman who got clamped with the lying time noted on her ticket will be making an official complaint as well :)

Gaijin said:
They probably could have taken him to the cleaners, but it wasn't pursued and he still has the clamp :D
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I wouldn't bet on it ;)
They know they left the clamp on his car.
He claims he never saw nothing.

It's his word against theirs unless there is a witness.

Now which do you think the police/magistrates are more likely to (want to) beleive?
Scum or an honest, hard working pipe fitter?


I mean if people will leave lumps of brightly coloured scrap metal around...
 
Would have been interesting if they had clamped your other wheel. By law they can only clamp on the drivers side. Well done :) Stupid ******
 
cheets64 said:
The amount of threads I see everyone ends out that the car was illegally clamped?
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well yes, nodbody is going to post that they parked illegally and were legitimately clamped?

hay guys, i parked in a residential bay and got clamped by the council. i phoned them up, paid £100 and they came round and removed it. i sure showed them!
 
The Clamps! :D

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Nice one. :)
 
Gaijin said:
Happened to a friend of mine and he took a rather more direct approach.

Came back to see the clamp on. Problem was they'd clamped his work van. He's a pipe fitter with a short temper.

Had to walk no more than 3 feet to get an acetylene torch and a few other props. Off it comes in a matter of minutes, gets chucked in the van and off he goes. Is contacted by the clampers/police at a later date asking for the clamp back. Merely says that there was never a clamp on it, but if they are going to leave their stuff lying around, then what do they expect.

They probably could have taken him to the cleaners, but it wasn't pursued and he still has the clamp :D
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I have always wondered what the police can do if you don't admit to anything and claim to never have seen a clamp.
 
SB118 said:
Got a call from the wife a couple hours ago, she got clamped outside the shop she was in and they want £130 to take it off.

I chuck my tools into the car and head off to see what's occuring.

Get to the shop (exeter street pet store for those that know the area) and find they've clamped 3 other cars too, busy evening i guess.

I jack the car up and start removing the wheel nuts (new design of clamp, harder to remove, but can't be fitted as tightly), pair of clampers show up in a van and start trying to fit another clamp to the other side. I explain my disappointment at their behaviour and they back off telling me they are calling the police. Goody, always nice to have impartial witnesses ;)

Wheel bolts out, wheel off and i start to undo the inside wishbone mounts. Police show up, clamper starts going on about contracts and damages and how they need to stop me... Heh, no chance, rozzers are just there to stop a breach of the peace. Clamper bloke is going absolutely nuts by now insisting that i can't take the clamp off without damaging it and he snapping away like mad with his digital camera to get his evidence.

At this point a woman walks out of the petshop, over to her car and then back to the where we are with the police and the clampers, can the police help her, she's been clamped for no reason. Clampers claim she was there for over 3 hours and it's a legitimate clamp. Woman pulls out a recipt for her cream tea in totnes from 3 hours ago. (totnes being roughly 40 minutes away on quiet roads) Police officer orders him to take it off! :D

I pop the inside wishbone mounts out, pull the chains off and put things back together. I pass the clamp to the clamper and ask him if he'd like one of the police officers to examine it for damage. More clamper ranting about how they'll tow our car away the moment they see it out on the road, officer puts him straight :D

By this point another police car has shown up to enjoy the show/keep the peace. As i'm putting the wheel back on one of the officers comes over and asks if i could have a look at another car that's been clamped. Clampers are really impressed by this :) (Turns out a new company has taken over the car park and is now enforcing 24 clamping whereas previously the local residents were welcome to use the carpark over night, so they've clamped every car they could see!)

Jack the car up, wheel off and make a start on the wishbone. At this point an officer interupts and tells me the clampers are going to cancel this evenings clamps to save wasting everybodies time (they would have to wait around to retrieve the clamps incase some scamp chopped them up) This was quite helpful as this car was a Merc and the chain was around the ARB too and i had no chance getting the damn thing off :eek: They take the clamp of the Merc and a car parked at the far side of the carpark and then leave without saying goodbye.

End result, saved £130 and really, really annoyed the clampers. :D
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My mate parks his m3 down the side of that shop, as he lives there, i doubt he will be going to the trouble of doing all that when he can just nip to machine mart across the road and get mr grinder out :D
 
Actually the legality of clamps has never properly been tested in court. For a civil matter you're not allowed to impose a punitive penalty. It could be argued that, as £130 is far higher than what it costs them to remove the clamp, added to the loss of use of the vehicle during that time, that a clamp is punitive. It's not been tested in court as far as I'm aware, but when I was doing my first law degree the head of the law school was always going on about his belief that it's unlawful.
 
So was the owner of the Mercedes there? How come the police asked you to remove the clamp from it?

Well done though, sounds like the Police were on your side! :D
 
Just to add my appreciation to this thread, kudos to you!
Scum!

Out of interest, what happens if you are clamped and the company scratch your wheel/mark the car in any way? Open season?
 
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