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BBC NEWS | UK | Private clamping 'legally shaky'

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CU*T

Just seen news on TV and i dont think i can write what i really want to about these guys. (would get banned for foul language).

In one case, 18-year-old Emily Ritson found her car had disappeared nine minutes after a parking ticket expired at 10 o'clock at night. The police told her it had probably been removed by a clamping company.
Her father, Nigel, told the BBC: "I was really upset and angry because she's only 18 and she was 80 miles from home."
"I suspect they just towed the car away the second the ticket had expired."
After he was asked to pay £390 pounds to get it back, his response was: "You've got to be kidding. She was only nine minutes late."
Emily had to be rescued by a distant relative because the company would not return her car until the morning.
Mr Ritson said: "The man on the other end of the phone just said 'That's not my problem' and put the phone down on me."


My sister was parked outside her house but infront of the next door and the bastards got her car towed! When she knocked on the door asking if they had seen her car, they said that she block her driveway which wasnt on a dipped curb and told her to [Poor language removed]. If i was a clamper, i wouldnt have towed it, it wasnt a legal act.
 
I had just got out of hospital with a five inch plate, eight screws and a bolt holding my foot on to the leg. A fortnight later I had an appt at the hospital and as I was on crutches I was told to park in the disabled car park for ease of access to the hospital.( In case some funny guy says what are you driving with a busted leg, it is my left leg and my cars are automatics. Dr and insurance have oked it ).

Comming out after getting a new cast put on I saw I had been clamped. Contacted the clamping company, more about that later, whereupon a muscle bound tattooed thug appeared in an unmarked van. He saw my predicament and agreed that it was harsh but wanted 60 notes to release the car. I was bloody raging, phoned the local cops who were 100 yards away stating that there may be a breach of the peace as I was rapidly losing it. He didn't want to know stating it was on private property.

Reluctantly I coughed up but he explained the appeals procedure, I appealed enclosing a letter from my consultant stating that due to my condition I had permission to park there. Isubmitted this expecting to get a reply in four weeks as it stated on the form.

Today was five weeks later so I phoned the number on the docket, surprise surprise No unobtainable. I went down to the address on the docket. Unmarked shop with several desks with pcs on them. One young girl working away in the back. It was a comunal office and the guy who ran the clamping was out and she didn't know when he would be back. She Emailed him my mobile No stating I was looking for him. 10 hrs later I'm still waiting for a return call. As I'm off work I'll keep going down until I get him.

Does anyone know, aside from getting the heavies in, how I would go about getting my money back or at least some satisfaction?

:dodgy::dodgy::dodgy:
 

Rare as hens teeth them sorts. You are giving me the impression of the kind of honest geezer that gets some muscles and works clamping cars... (only kidding, how did you hurt your leg?)
 
Out on a mates leaving doo which turned into a pub crawl, wife was picking me up and drove past me. As I tried to get her attention I fell to the ground and heard a shap as I went down. Bang went the fibula, then as I tried to push myself up on it the ankle dislocated. Still walked on it to the car. Next morning I was admitted to hospital, Sh1t happens.
 

Got clamped in Southampton, 150 quid there and then, i was fuming, absolutely fuming cus i was driving up to Liverpool on that day too. I've been phoning them up alot saying i've been clamped in a so and so area and they send someone out, i don't live anywhere near there too, so there going to nowhere. Still fuming to this day.
 
Watched QI earlier, supposedly the french acted 'en mass' and simply put superglue in all the locks, regardless of their car or not.
Quality people power. Too busy wiping our feet before being anal*y gang rap*d in this country to try something like that.
 

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