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WARNING Avoid Changegate Car Park, Haworth. Notorious for Clamping

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  • peter_the_piper
    peter_the_piper Posts: 30,269 Forumite
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    Would not be able to do so if ticket was in a plastic clip as I have. Sounds unscrupulous enough to do that.
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • vikingaero
    vikingaero Posts: 10,920 Forumite
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    Wouldn't it be a shame if someone regularly flytipped a load of hardcore at the entrance to this car park...
    The man without a signature.
  • give_them_FA
    give_them_FA Posts: 2,998 Forumite
    Sounds as if that someone would be performing a public service.
  • give_them_FA
    give_them_FA Posts: 2,998 Forumite
    No problem, just use a very big youth whose evening job is martial arts instructor.
  • ManxRed
    ManxRed Posts: 3,530 Forumite
    And have someone nearby filming him. He could let the goons know this shortly before they laid in.
    Je Suis Cecil.
  • UnconsciouS
    UnconsciouS Posts: 34 Forumite
    You all may be extremely shocked to discover, that one of the 3 clamping bullies at the Changegate Car Park - one Gareth Evans (son of Ted), has run into a spot of bother with the law.

    This person who uses such determined and ruthless retribution to deal with the transgressions of others, is being accused of driving his car park battlewagon (a Land Rover Defender) with NO car insurance!

    You can find the story on the website of the Keighley News of the 31st May 2012.

    Surely such a worthy citizen could not have been so reckless. I'm sure the allegation by the police will have been a mistake! After all, this is the vehicle Evans uses to block people in while his chums are clamping them! (You can see Evans sitting in the Defender in a You Tube video)

    If guilty, in addition to fining him, perhaps the magistrates will be kind enough to ensure that his vehicile is crushed and that the Car Park in which it spends most of it's days, is closed down for good. :T
  • give_them_FA
    give_them_FA Posts: 2,998 Forumite
    Thankyou, just when we are accustomed to nothing but bad news, a veritable ray of sunshine!
  • esmerobbo
    esmerobbo Posts: 4,979 Forumite
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    He said: “I don’t get on well with the Skipton police force. They have a vendetta against me because of the job I’m in.”

    I can understand that! :p

    http://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/news_keighley/9737162.Clamper___s_case/
  • give_them_FA
    give_them_FA Posts: 2,998 Forumite
    Why does he call it a job? Every one else calls it a scam.
  • peter_the_piper
    peter_the_piper Posts: 30,269 Forumite
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    Are his police force different to the rest of the UK then? All the rest say its a civil matter and walk away.
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
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