Good On Him!!!

[DarkMajes71c]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucesters hire/7395452.stm

top marks to this bloke!!! if i could i would do the same thing, who else thinks all this bureaucratic ******** has to end?

[DrFilth]

they can have half each now

[youngmafbog]

The country has gone potty under Nooo labour.

[jake-the-peg]

Yes fancy insisting people pay road tax - disgusting!

Only an inch and a half on the pavement? yeah right!

[vehelpfulguy]

According to NCP HALF the car was on the pavement, not half an inch as the guy said (not sure who is telling the truth but NCP say they have photos as proof)

If you car IS off the road it needs to be registered with SORN as off-road.

This guy had neither road tax NOR registered with SORN.

He deserved all he got and I hope they persue other people who dont pay the taxes the rest of us do.

[DarkMajes71c]

Frankly Jake-The -Peg if you look at the state of roads in the uk it is disgusting we have to pay road tax... considering we get taxed so much on our vehicles... vat when we buy the car.... petrol every time we fill up & road tax as well. know any other countries that tax you this much for your vehicle?

[DarkMajes71c]

also if you read the article the vehicle was registered as SORN.

[bazwillrun]

it will only stop when these people are voted out of office and told exactly why they are being booted out

[jake-the-peg]

Where do you get the idea from that vehicle exise duty is ringfenced for the upkeep of the roads?

Why do some people think they can get away with breaking the rules and then when they get caught get all stroppy and make a big fuss about it for the newspapers?

"Hello is that the mail/express/telegraph/Sun I'm going to cut my car up as a protest it'll make a good story come and film me!"

Or did all the reporters just happen to be passing?

Then the wazzock sets fire to the car in the daft stunt and they have to call the fire brigade.

Frankly I hope they throw the book at him

[DarkMajes71c]

perhaps if he was actually driving the car around they should bother throwing the book at him but the fact remains it was a SORN vehicle on his driveway which was according to them protruding a meter into the pavement and according to him protruding an inch or so... so lets call it about 50cm that doesn�t even put a wheel on the pavement!!!!
if the car had been abandoned there for a year and his neighbours were complaining then fair enough do him for something but clamping his car on his own driveway is f%$king ridiculous.
how the hell would you feel if you get home from work one day and you car you bought to do up for you son was clamped with a big fat release fee and notice for removal on it...

if i was that bloke i would be getting the two halves dumped and burning them out in the car park entrance of the NCP head quarters. Or dumping one end at each end of downing street and leaving them burning.

a percentage of the fine given is taken by the NCP is distributed into the central government fund� basically their pool for everything including road maintenance which they seem to have been skimping on in favour of building new toll roads instead of maintaining the ones we already have and are paying them for.

but you were right on the road tax it hasn�t been explicitly for road maintenance since 1936 when apparently it started going straight into the main government pool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_excise_du ty

[Supernick]

What's his problem, he broke the clear rules and got puniched for it. This is precisely the same as the guy who was fined for having his bin lid up 4 inches.

The point is, that it sounds daft, but it's totally necessary. You have to have a cut off point for the rules otherwise there would be chaos. If they let him off, and a guy down the road leaves his car 1 1/2 metres onto the pavement, then what? He'll rightly turn round and say that they let the other guy off so he should be as well. It would be a disaster.

Break the law and deal with the consequences. Don't throw a hissy fit like a 6 year old girl with your power tools.

[Marijn]

jakethepeg. Where does it say it was filmed whilst he was cutting it in two?
Where does it say the fire brigade was called?

[jno]

notafish, it's in the story. He set the car on fire (accidentally, I presume) and the fire brigade and police had to be called. Your taxes will have to pay for his actions. What a hero.

[Oneeyedvic]

erm, Jake said "...come and film me", not "..come and film me cutting it up". They obviously did go and film him as at the bottom of the supplied link it shows a film of the person who cut it up.


It also says at the bottom of the link :""And in cutting his car in two, he managed to put both himself at risk and also a number of bystanders - along with ourselves, the police had to be called and the fire brigade, as he set fire to the car while cutting it in two.



Why is it the same people who say "if you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear" with regards id cards, terrorist suspects being put in prison without charge etc etc are the same people who complain when the law is upheld?

[Coobeastie]

I'm inclined to believe that the car was a significant distance out on to the footpath and that this is your typical knuckle dragger get the press involved kind of incident.

All this talk of buying the car as a restoration project it was a 50quid fiesta which is worth more now as scrap hardly the best choice for a project and who is to say that he doesn't regularly have 'projects' littering the front of the house.

[saxy_jag]

He may like to think he's 'got one over them', but he's still got to get rid of the thing, he still has a fine to pay and he still runs the risk of prison if he doesn't pay it.

He'll probably also get done for littering the street and/or causing an obstruction, abandoning a vehicle or whatever other charge the law can bring on him.

I still think it's a bit petty of the authorities, though.

[Marijn]

The video isn't of him actually doing it. He is expalining what he had done. Also he says it started a small fire which he put out himself with a small fire extinguisher.
Why do you feel the need to exaggerate?
Wheteher you agree with what he did or not. You have not got your facts right

[jno]

the fact that you manage to put out a fire yourself doesn't mean the fire brigade won't have been called in the meantime. That's what they do - they go to fires. Some will be bad. Some will be minor. Some will be caused by berks cutting their cars in half. The brigade won't know till they get there.

[Oneeyedvic]

notafish have you read the link to the bbc website? If so you will see that noone is exaggerating, but quoting straight from the news source.

Why are you suggesting that everyone is exaggerating, when they are purely reporting the facts in the article?

[Marijn]

I don't remember saying .... "EVERYONE" is exaggerating.