Residents Barricade Car Clampers

[Blind_Io]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...icle816845.ece

FURIOUS families built a barricade of cars to hold clampers ‘hostage’ for three hours.
Released ... car unclamped


The neighbours had woken up to find their vehicles shackled — even though they each had their own parking spaces on the recently-built estate.
Some refused to fork out the £125 release fee and instead called friends and relatives to create a five-car barrier — trapping the clampers and their van.
There were huge cheers when the clampers at last agreed to release eight cars already clamped — and their van was allowed to leave.
Estate management company Ringley enforced the measures without checking that residents had got their special parking permits in the post, it is claimed.
Just ONE person had received one.

Mum Lisa Stiles was in tears when she had to miss a hospital appointment for her four-month-old baby Ella, who has eczema, after London Parking Control swooped on the Vision estate in Southend, Essex.
Lisa, 29, who paid out £125 before the residents’ victory, said: “I’m on my own so I can’t afford the fee. I’ve been told I might not get a refund.”

Scott O’Brien, 20, who missed a doctor’s appointment, said: “I’m disgusted. I was parked in my designated space.”
Ringley sent out letters — which some residents denied receiving — saying it had acted because of “problems with parking” on the estate, which opened last May.
The firm was last night unavailable for comment.

[wlmmn]

Is there anything you can buy to put on your wheels to prevent a clamp being put on?

[fbc]

^ A wheel clamp on each wheel perhaps? Would be a nice anti-theft measure too...

[Viper007Bond]

Britain is so retarded, lol.

[niccce]

I'd kick someone in the nuts. No, seriously, i'm not a violent person, so i'd do it without any anger or rush. Just calmly walk to the stupid, "cheers mate", kick in the nuts, "bad clamping cars innit", leave.
jk

[Beni]

as long as it's not your car being clamped, why not ?

[Hercules286]

Originally Posted by wlmmn

Is there anything you can buy to put on your wheels to prevent a clamp being put on?

How about this?

[ruuman]

wankers got me in Brighton last night, clamped @ 00:30, 100quid to release, boy did I give them an earful, leaching off society, get a real job you fucking arseholes!!

Word to the wise, hacksaw's don't make a dent in the chain or lock as all hardened steel. Can't believe I took my grinder out of the boot the day before

[Viper007Bond]

Originally Posted by wlmmn

Is there anything you can buy to put on your wheels to prevent a clamp being put on?

Move to a non-fucked up country?

[anti-net]

Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

Britain is so retarded, lol.

Shhh, don't tell anyone - people might realises were a joke!

Also - that's awesome, we gotta erh, clamp down...on these clamper's because they just take the piss. And to the person with the angle grinder idea, yes that works but you get done for Criminal damage

Best way is learn how to pick locks and pick them off, you haven't damaged anything then

[Mopar Man]

Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

Britain is so retarded, lol.

LOL, your saying what everyone else is thinking.

[Hercules286]

Originally Posted by anti-net

Also - that's awesome, we gotta erh, clamp down...on these clamper's because they just take the piss. And to the person with the angle grinder idea, yes that works but you get done for Criminal damage

Well, considering they probably write down your reg number when they put the clamp anyway, you'll get charged with something anyway.

BUT, if you bury the clamp somewhere, they'll never be able to prove you did anything. You can blame it on a renegade who cuts down clamps on people, going under the name of Robin Hood.

[AlexmanDK]

Wouldn't it be possible to buy your own clamp and cheat them into thinking that it has allready be clamped? That would be awesome!

[ruuman]

Originally Posted by petarkb

BUT, if you bury the clamp somewhere, they'll never be able to prove you did anything. You can blame it on a renegade who cuts down clamps on people, going under the name of Robin Hood.

well luckily such a man exists!
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndID=238616595

Just wish I had his mobile last night

[Blind_Io]

Originally Posted by petarkb

Well, considering they probably write down your reg number when they put the clamp anyway, you'll get charged with something anyway.

BUT, if you bury the clamp somewhere, they'll never be able to prove you did anything. You can blame it on a renegade who cuts down clamps on people, going under the name of Robin Hood.

You don't even need to blame someone else, they have to prove that you were the one to cut it off. Wear gloves so you don't leave prints on the clamp and make sure you keep your grinder out of sight in the boot.

[wlmmn]

As far as I'm concerned, if it's YOUR car, YOU have a say as to what gets put on your vehicle, so if there's a clamp, and you don't want it there, you should be able to take it off your OWN car. Why not just ticket someone? It gets the message across without actually inconveniencing someone too much.

[YF19pilot]

Originally Posted by wlmmn

As far as I'm concerned, if it's YOUR car, YOU have a say as to what gets put on your vehicle, so if there's a clamp, and you don't want it there, you should be able to take it off your OWN car. Why not just ticket someone? It gets the message across without actually inconveniencing someone too much.

Tickets can be thrown away, ignored, and forgotten. Not to mention that Police really can't be bothered to follow up on parking tickets enough to pursue you. With a clamp, you have to call someone, you have to pay someone, you have to admit guilt.

Granted, if this is all about creating jobs, I could see having a department in the Police that just delt with following up tickets. Less annoying, probably more government jobs created for all those yobs and chavs that are currently into boot clamps. Not to mention it gives you time to actually come up with the cash rather than being SOL and not being able to have the boot removed.

Actually, what happens if you don't have the cash to unboot your car? Does it get towed and you have to pay boot removal + impound fees? Or does your car just sit there untill you can fork over the money.

[Redliner]

It is all too complicated for me.
Here things are straightforward: you parked where you shouldn't (or commited any other violation)? You get a ticket. The officer writes down the details and after a few days you receive the citation in the mail. You can pay right away and get a discount, or you are obliged to pay it when renewing the annual license of your car, otherwise you can't get a license. If you're caught without it, the car is impounded. Simple as that. You don't need to pay in cash, in situ and the car doesn't get stuck until you paid it.

[Steve Levin]

I thought the reason behind clamping was punitive -- intentionally to take your time.

Otherwise, the rich just park wherever they want and pay the fine later. As Clarkson once said (paraphrasing) "I could park in a car park and pay 15 quid, or park right out in front of where I wanted to be and pay 20 quid."

And if you make the fine 500 pounds, then you hear nothing but sob stories about the unfortunate soul who made a mistake and then couldn't feed his family for a month...

In general (and I know there are exceptions) people's time actually costs much less in actual money than aggravation.

Steve

[klutch]

Originally Posted by AlexmanDK

Wouldn't it be possible to buy your own clamp and cheat them into thinking that it has allready be clamped? That would be awesome!

That's EXACTLY what I was thinking. I'm pretty sure you can't be clamped more than once. Its the same with parking tickets.