Amusing news story

[wuvvum]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/7395452.stmI doubt I would have had the bottle to do that, much as I would have liked to in a similar situation...

[garethj]

Weigh it in with the clamp on, get an extra 50p

[bones96]

id cut it in such a way that it snaps in half as they lift it lol then try to blame them for it

[Adrian_pt]

I was with a few friends in London last summer, and one of them, the designated driver, turned up in his dad's (metallic orange-brown) M-reg Volvo 440. After a pretty good night out, we go back to the car to find out he'd parked illegally, the car had been towed away to a depot on Park Lane, and he'd have to pay 280 quid to get it unclamped... He would have tried the "nah, I'm not paying that, it's more than the car's worth ffs" trick, but as it was his dad's he couldn't, and so he stumped up the money. Moral of the story: massive jobsworths; they should be forced to drive a Kia Rio for life.

[marinast]

A Kia Rio eh?A sentence worse than death.

[Volksy]

How about a Kia Rio Diesel.....

[Mr Lobster]

"Her Name Is Rio And She's Crap"- Autocar headline from a couple of years back.

[Milford Cubicle]

How about a Kia Rio Diesel.....

Is that the one with the 3-cylinder VM lump? Desirable!

[pompei]

So the car was SORN in half?

[Richard]

Oh dear I really don't like the idea of law enforcement being done by private companies (assuming it's the same NCP as the car parks).If they tried that one on me I would go to the nearest NCP car park and clamp the first one of their vehicles I saw that wasn't parked in a proper space and displaying a valid ticket. I would do this every day until I didn't have enough money to buy any more clamps.

[Volksy]

It is the same company as the car parks, I had a run in with them not so long back, but actually found them pretty reasonable to deal with. The DVLA on the other hand.........

[CortinaDave]

He should just have cut the clamped wheel off then phoned the scrappy to pick it up and left the company with just the wheel

[monzaE]

No sympathy from me. I'm sick of people who block the path. Plus he's a Builder and we all know that they are conning bastards. Plus he uses a cutter with no safety gear. Plus he's ugly and doesn't know where I live...... I hope.