Clamping & fines - sit tight !

[tamborine]

Friend was clamped in private car park behind shops. The clampers charged £95 for clamp & £195 for pick up truck to remove vehicle. Police refused to help as it was a private park.

She refused to pay or get out of her car. After 2hrs they gave up & left, taking clamp with them. When she phoned the clamp company to complain, their number was dead as was details of the company.

[mrs_overall]

Good for her!

[ladybirder]

Brilliant.

[rnchugg]

report any details to tranding standards with as much info as you can! As of AUGUST 2010 its illegal to clamp cars now.

http://www.guardian.c...ping-ban-private-land

[rnchugg]

http://www.direct.gov...l1/Newsroom/DG_190178

MAJOR READING MATERIAL!!!!!!!!!

[sir.prize]

Incorrect rnchugg - re-read your own link - slowly.

[tamborine]

If its illegal I wonder why the police ignored the complaint. Removing the vehicle would be theft.

[tamborine]

She left the car for 5mins to deliver a bag to charity shop, when she returned the car was clamped.

[ladybirder]

I don't think it is illegal yet is it? The relevant Bill hasn't been passed.

[Hopkirk]

http://www.southendst..._towed____priceless_/

I like this one aswell

[askyourgran]

There is a god after all hopkirk.

[dotty.]

I went to asda last week and a polce special was checking every vehicle for their tax disc and he issued a ticket to the car parked next to me cos it;s tax was out of date, i was shocked that asda allowed that on their customer car park.

[DSJ]

This must have been annoying & very distressing for the lady concerned.

When I owned a flat within a complex in the centre of Northampton, I saw the problem from the other side. Each of the forty-eight flats had its own numbered parking bay & the complex was monitored by private wardens. It was illegal for any of us owners to park in a bay which was not our own & we could be clamped for doing so. Many, many times I returned home to find a strange car parked in my bay, either clamped or not. I could not park anywhere else & had to park in the street after buying a ticket from a machine. Once, someone dumped an untaxed car in my bay. The police initially told me that they could do nothing because it was on private property. After three days, they relented and traced the owner. That evening the car had been removed.

The complex of flats was close to the main Northampton shopping centre and also to a church. The main offenders were shoppers, especially at Christmas, and also people attending weddings or funerals at the church. Yet there was a Pay & Display Car Park close by.

This is not a criticism, just an observation.

[Toureman]

You can also outwit the legal council tow trucks if your lucky, if you can get in your vehicle and lock yourself in they are not allowed to move the vehicle if you are in it.

You would only have to pay the parking fine.