bluesbiker In: Birmingham in th
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Wheel Camping and towing on private land is set to be banned by the government in England and Wales probably from next year. They wiil however still be able to issue tickets.
RustyKnight In: Newton Aycliffe
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Phil if they can issue tickets but not clamp it will stop all the chancers charging 200 squid to remove one and put the gangsters out of business, sounds good to me
I knew someone who got clamped big chain and a concrete block, he had pictures taken of the chipped paint on the wheels then called the police and had the clamper charged with criminal damage. Dodgy blankets and police were waiting to get something on them a lot of complaints about them so BAN them all I say bloody robbing barstewards
Nice to see you are catching up with Scotland, we've had this law for years after someone took a company to court and had them charged with holding there car to ransom
Welcome to the free world
No arguments that clampers acting illegally are vermin of the lowest kind - but, on the other side of the coin, many people who park illegally are every bit as annoying and inconsiderate.
I used to share a house in a busy part of town, and people would actually park IN our back garden, which was obviously private property and clearly marked as such, bocking in all our cars and bikes so that it was impossible for us to get out at all! The number of times we had to phone in late for work because of this was ridiculous - and it ONLY stopped once we got in a wheel clamping firm.
I don't care how bad street parking is, NO ONE has the right to park on someone elses property without permission - how would you feel if someone just left their vehicle in YOUR garden, maybe totally blocking your car/bike in your garage or on your drive?
Sadly, the threat of a big fine enforced by clamping is probably the only thing that stops inconsiderate lazy scum from doing this sort of thing, so I wil be sad to see legitimate clamping of illegally parked vehicles stopped.
Of course clamping a vehicle which is causing an obstruction doesn't stop it - that's what tow trucks are for. In other cases, the threat of a large fine and the inconvenience of being clamped is intended to deter potential offenders from doing it in the first place.
Fact is that no one ever parked illegally on our private yard after prominent
clamping
warnings went up, so clearly it worked exactly as intended for us.
Whenever we contacted the police about people parked on our yard we were very specifically warned that we were NOT entitled to move offending vehicles, that if we moved the vehicle and abandoned it in another spot where it was illegally parked we would be held responsible, also that if we did so and caused any damage to the vehicle we would be charged with causing criminal damage at the very least, along with TDA/TWOC in all probability. Quite how we could have moved a locked, parked car off our property is a bit beyond me anyway, even if in theory we were entitled to - we didn't have a tow truck (and if we had, it would have been blocked in!) and none of us knew how to break into cars without damaging them.
As I said before, I think illegal clampers are vermin. I have no problem with clampers who obey the law, quite the reverse - I have no sympathy for selfish, inconsiderate and lazy drivers who think the world is their parking place.
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