CLAMPERS

[barryboy]

On a lighter note to the earlier posts,I've been clamped and am now highly enraged and 80euros the lighter.NO signage and i've been parking in the same place since September with no issues.JUST GREAT, there isn't even a regulator or anyone to complain toWHO ACTUALLY WORKS FOR THESE COMPANIES and doesn't die from lack of sleep due to all those sleepless nights!PS i'm a student hence this is a major expenditure for me

[Tayne]

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[barryboy]

Éire,i see your in Aberdeen, what part i lived there and i may be returning....

[wuvvum]

[barryboy]

I'm in the university with nothing that i'd call my usual 'equipment' I had to bend over and........just pay the dam fine, i'll do the usual and take pictures etc but i won't get anywhere

[Tayne]

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[VWPowered]

so glad theirs no clampers round here i'd just end up losing it..

[barryboy]

I doubt you have any legal protection in the republic.

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[Spiny Norman]

So glad our legal system in Scotland decided a few years ago that wheel clamping by anyone other than the Police/DVLA amounted to extortion and promptly banned it. Probably doesn't make you feel any better I guess, sorry.

[Cavcraft]

I've always thought about buying a car out of the auction, not registering it, filling the boot with open cans of oil and painl then parking it in a clampers area and loosening the wheel nuts might be a source of revenge.Then I had another idea involving cloning.

[VWPowered]

yeah sounds good that, undo all the bonnet, wing, boot, doors bolts too so it falls apart once lifted

[scooters]

So glad our legal system in Scotland decided a few years ago that wheel clamping by anyone other than the Police/DVLA amounted to extortion and promptly banned it. Probably doesn't make you feel any better I guess, sorry.

indeed - it was in the early 90's - an advocate in Edinburgh got clamped by a london firm who just set up shop in Edinburgh. He called the number told the clamper to remove the clamp - he refused without payment so the advocate called the police who promptly arrested the clamper under Scotlands harsh laws on Blackmail...(aside - Blackmail is a Scots word - 'black' in Scots means 'evil, bad, dangerous - eg I am in a black mood today. The activity Blacmail refers to was developed as a business by the lawless freebooters who lived both sides of the anglo-scottish border in the 15th and 16th C also known as reivers - essentially i means protection money) what the clampers failed to realise was a- Scots law is different and b - given the history of the country Blackmail is seen as a serious offence.so - the result was the clampers were jailed and the directors of the company who were based in London summoned to Edinburgh and fined. law entered the Scottish books that claming is Blackmail - so don't do it!wonderful!as you live in Eire - I would suggest buying a Citroen XM or a CX and always lowering the suspension on leaving the vehicle - then they can't clamp you or tow you away as the vehicle would be damaged by either activity

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Both clampers and traffic wardens are utter vermin, sad wankers who want the power of a copper but didn't make the grade.I live in a steet with residents parking. It's an absolute pain in the rectum and nobody here wants it. Every fucking year we go through the ballache of applying for a new permit. Hell, I pay income tax and NI on my regular job, tax and more NI because I do stuff on the side. I pay car tax, council tax and every other fucking tax and now I've been fined £35 for parking my company car outside my own fucking house. "Why not get a residents permit" I hear you ask. No, because the cunts won't issue me one. They won't issue a permit without a reg number which is an arseache because my car changes quite regularly. Therefore I cannot legally park it outside my own house.Because there is NOWHERE else to park, I parked it outside the house today with a neatly typed note giving my name, address, reg number and permit number of my own car which I took for an MOT today (it passed).Got back and the fucking traffic Nazis have slapped a ticket on it. Absolute bastardry of the first order - there was just no need for it.I know what car they all turn up in in the morning to do their day's work of spreading misery - and it's going to recieve a few modifications.

[Spiny Norman]

I can sort of see the point of regular old fashioned traffic wardens because let's face it some mongs park in the most fecking stupid places and deserve everything they get. If anything being let off with a £30 ticket is too good for the sort of twats who regularly used to park right in front of my old lock-up so I couldn't get my car out! But I agree about the privatised "traffic enablement officers" or whatever poncey title they have nowadays. Before she died last year, I'd sometimes go and take my old gran to her pal's house, or to her hairdresser, and to do that I obviously had to park briefly outside her flat so I could go up and help her down the stairs.On more than one occasion I got a ticket for this, since her street was all resident parking. I was away from the car for no more than 10 minutes.I couldn't even buy a resident's permit because the car wasn't registered at that address! I later found out that by taking the frankly ludicrous step of simply stopping the car in the middle of the road and putting the bonnet up and the hazards on, they couldn't ticket me since I wasn't in a resident's parking place and by the time the Police came I was long gone!

[lancashireclamper]

Have to agree with most of whats been said really, which ain't easy as (you've probably guessed) I'm a clamper,or Vehicle Immobiliser licenced by the Security Industry Authority if you prefer.First off I don't work for an actual clamping company, don't keep any of the money I collect/extort from motorists and never wanted to join the police/army/ovaltinies I applied for a job as a car park attendant with a large pubilc organisation because it sounded like a cushy little number (which it was) and after a few years was told 'one of the clampers is retiring, you've got the job' next thing you know I'm on a training course studying to pass my NVQ in vehicle immobilisation with 18 musclebound troglodytes whose knuckles scraped on the floor when they walked, from what was said most of them were self employed and would clamp anybody for anything, pay and display ticket upside down, wrong reg no on parking permit etc and it made me feel sick to be in the same room as them let alone be joining their 'profession'As a rule I hate clamping anyone, I always try to trace the car owner and ask them to move, leave a polite note reminding them to get a new permit etc, clamping is a last resort, unless your a perfectly healthy 20 year old who parks in a disabled bay whilst going to the gym because the nearest regular space is miles away (200 yards in fact) they bring out the clamper in me and I'll clamp anyone who does the same and lose no sleep about it, suppose I'm lucky to have discretion and no clamping targets to meet, I get paid the same if I clamp 100 people or nobody at all which is the exception rather than the rule for most clampers.There has to be some form of control over parking and clamping is a bloody good deterent if its done legally, responsibly and above all NOT FOR THE PROFIT OF PRIVATE FIRMS!Anyway, feel better for that, can't really offer any advice to Barryboy as I don't know the law in Eire but if anyone from England/Wales (not Scotland obviously) has been clamped and needs any advice on appealing the charge please pm me and I'll help if I can, many firms are really slapdash about the legal side of things and have to refund your money if they cock up

[Father Ted]

I removed clamps on my car on a couple of occasions whilst immobilised at Trafford General Hospital as a student nurse ( we paid parking to the hospital we lived at on the understanding when we had to visit another we could park there too.)Anyway they used very crap silver coloured "Clamper" branded U things that responded very well to a scissor jack and a bit of brute force. I lobbed them in the skip back at my own hospital though for good measure. Had they used something better I would probably have had to resort to trying to "drive" out of it (this was the late 80's / early 90's and clamps were quite a bit crapper then).

[Cavcraft]

I bet it would be deeply wrong to clone the clamper's numberplate then park in another clamper's area in you auction purchased, not-registered-to-you similar car?

[Mr Lobster]

[lancashireclamper]

The only thing is cav that clamper b ends up weighing your auction car in and getting a few bob for it, granted he doesn't get the £120 per day impound/storage fee that he wants but after a certain period, think its either 14 or 21 days he can apply for ownership of the car and dispose of it. Clamper a (whose car bears the 'similar reg') gets a letter from the DVLA saying someone is trying to claim title to his car, phones the telephone number in red and says his car is outside on his drive, DVLA smell a rat and get an engineer to check out 'your' car and possibly identify the last owner etc through the engine/chassis number. ok both parties get a fair bit of aggro but nobody really loses out.Great idea though, made me smile, if you'd like to try it with my car its a 1967 Aston Martin DB6 reg no CAV 1E

[Guest]

I'm a clamper too - my cars are "MAG 1C" and "ORV 1L".

[lancashireclamper]

I'm a clamper too - my cars are "MAG 1C" and "ORV 1L".

My God Hirst, sorry Mr Daniels/Harris;I had no idea times were that hard!

[Cavcraft]

Yeah but it'd be worth it and I'd love to see the twats tow a car away as the wheels fall off clown style and rucks of paint comes flying out everywhere.Probably thought too hard about this but maybe deliberately leave some old heap of shit in a clampers area then when they go to affix clamp go and let their tyres down. Or something equally keyboard -warrior-ishly unworkable but it makes me feel happy thinking about it.

[lancashireclamper]

Have a mental image of a car being lifted by scrotes r us and just as its about 5 feet in the air all 4 wheels drop off and rain down on afore mentioned operatives Given me ahem occupation shouldn't really find it funny but..............anyway; the most effective but less visually satisfying way to **ss off a cowboy clamper is to; a, note the type of padlock fitted to the clampb, go to local B&Q/Wickes/Poundstretcher type shopc, purchase boltcutters and identical padlockd, return to vehicle, cut off padlock and remove clamp,e, turn up at the address on the clamping notification (which MUST be attached to the driver's window of your vehicle, if it is not the clamping company is in breach of SIA regulations) return the undamaged clamp and new padlock plus keys to the chief neanderthal, explain that he or she is now in the same position property wise as he/she was before you were clamped and get the hell out of dodge!He or she'll complain and huff and puff about legal action etc but there is really piss all they can do, police view it as a civil matter and don't want to get involved and your not going to get taken to court because the lock you gave back is a different shade of yellow to the originalIf you do this be very careful where you park for a few weeks, these people don't like losing, I on the other hand thought it showed initative when one of 'my' clamps met a similar fate and was dumped on my line managers desk, I know the bloke who did it and we've become quite friendly since and often laugh about it, he was in the wrong so I clamped him, he thought his way out of it and won, good luck to him(like I said before, I get paid regardless)

[Tayne]

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