LBS Parking services clamp car doing a U turn - Daily Mail.

tomstickland

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1289280/Female-motorist-blocked-clamped-doing-U-turn-car-park.html

A mechanic who works in the garage opposite said the clampers - from firm LBS Enforcement - were 'ruthless'.
The worker, who did not want to be named, said: 'They wait up the road in their vans. They trap people with their vans and if someone argues with them, they ramp up the charges.'
Locals said it was not the first time that LBS Enforcement had clamped someone who had simply entered the car park to turn around.

Robert Jones, the manager of LBS Enforcement, said: 'Of course we are pleased when we can clamp people. We would rather clamp someone than have them drive off. It's how we make our money.
'There is nothing wrong with what they have done whatsoever. By agreeing to park there she is agreeing to have her car clamped.
'She has got a cheek complaining. She was trespassing on private property.'

maninthestreet

So where is the U-turn???

trisontana

LBS Security are well know thugs. They have over 15 unpaid CCJs against them. The VAT number shown on their paperwork actually belongs to Barclay's bank, they claim they are SIA registered when they are not, and one of their vans was recently clamped for having no tax.

Coupon-mad

maninthestreet wrote: »

So where is the U-turn???

LBS have clamped cars which are simply doing a U turn, having driven in and then driving straight out.

If the landowner/occupier wants to stop that they just need a bollard, not a b***ard with a clamp!

tomstickland

maninthestreet wrote: »

So where is the U-turn???

The mail article is about a woman who did a U turn and was stopped by them blocknig the exit with a van,she turned off the engine to speak to them, and then they clamped her car.

DailyClicker

Coupon-mad wrote: »

LBS have clamped cars which are simply doing a U turn, having driven in and then driving straight out.

If the landowner/occupier wants to stop that they just need a bollard, not a b***ard with a clamp!

Exactly, :T

It's quite simple, I use a bollard, and have no issues, but down the same private road I live at, lots of shops have decided to employ a clamping company, who aren't there to 'protect' the parking spaces.

They are there to purely make money, it needs to be stopped like it has been in Scotland.

DailyClicker

trisontana wrote: »

LBS Security are well know thugs. They have over 15 unpaid CCJs against them. The VAT number shown on their paperwork actually belongs to Barclay's bank, they claim they are SIA registered when they are not, and one of their vans was recently clamped for having no tax.

There are numerous companies, such as Securak/City Watch, who all operate in the same 'thuggish' ways.

They have received lots of bad press from Watchdog and even LBS Security featured on ITV London news, but the only way to stop these companies would be a change in the law, like Scotland has banning Private Clamping companies, because it's just as bad as theft.

Driver8

It wouldn't surprise me if the authorities were taking a low key but very interesting look at these thieving thugs from LBS.

It's been mentioned that they are using a bank's VAT number.

Remember a month or so ago when another of the fat thieving scumbags ended up in the nick in Birmingham? It wouldn't surprise me if more end up in the nick in the not too distant future.

We can only hope.

Here's the fat piece of scum getting arrested. Doesn't like to show it's face does it.
I sincerely hope he loses absolutely everything. His house the lot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfM0FU-ks08

Coblcris

Use of the Proceeds of Crime Act may deter a few.
But this Act tends to get used in higher profile higher value cases.

Coupon-mad

Clampers who used illegal tactics such as blocking people in and clamping them when doing a turn whilst still in the car? Sounds familiar, the same tactics were used by Portsmouth scumbags who were convicted of several counts of blackmail in 2005:

Clampers convicted - blackmail

HTH

anewman

I'd stay in the car amd run the (vnts over