MSE News: Wheel clamping to be banned on private land

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ripped_off_driver wrote: »

It seems the future is bright for out-of-work clampers after all:

http://newsarse.com/2010/08/17/clampers-forced-to-return-to-previous-lives-of-kidnap-and-extortion/

Thanks, I just sent that link to a number of clamping companies, with a suitable number of 'LOLs' included in the comments box

ripped_off_driver

Now that pondlife scum clampers have been seen off by a government which is looking better by the minute, we need to chase out of town the bunch of unscrupulous scammers loosely called PPCs. Greed and venality saw off the clampers in the end. Even when many in the "industry" knew that a total ban was a possibility they could not resist cashing in using all their criminal proclivities and in the end shot themselves in the foot.

PPCs are the same. The message is already getting out that if you ignore the mail scammers they are nowhere to be seen. Now that this is their only option it will not be long before PPCs kill off their only remaining golden goose. All it will take is one decision of a court of record and it is game over. Deep down the PPC scammers know it but they are just too greedy and immoral to care.

liam8282

I would like to see what the government is going to introduce to deter those that have no respect for private property and choose to park wherever and whenever they want.

The major thing that just about everybody in this thread seems to have forgotten, or have some sort of bigoted mental block over.

But wait, everything is ok in Scotland.

lucylucky

liam8282 wrote: »

People have only suggested alternatives to a small specifically chosen number of circumstances.

How can you feasibly distinguish between parking irresponsibly? and .....what else? There needs to be something else for that sentence to be complete

The impression I get from this thread is, if there is a space, you can park in it. After all, nothing can be done about it.

So that now goes for all parking spaces in private car parks, such as mother and child spaces, disabled bays etc.

One person may truly believe that parking in a mother and child space or disabled space is not irresponsible. So now it is a question of what a person thinks is right and wrong......... But at the end of the day, nothing can be done about it. Wrong

You can't pick and choose where it is relevant, to suit your current argument.

There are alternatives to sticking up signs saying do not park here, some have been suggested, you are unwilling to engage in any sort of sensible dialogue about them.

lucylucky

liam8282 wrote: »

I would like to see what the government is going to introduce to deter those that have no respect for private property and choose to park wherever and whenever they want.

The major thing that just about everybody in this thread seems to have forgotten, or have some sort of bigoted mental block over.

But wait, everything is ok in Scotland.

It is absolutely grand at the moment as it happens.

lucylucky

liam8282 wrote: »

Maybe, the £50 fine and wheel clamp also had something to do with it?

Then again, the dirty looks, yes that must be it.

There would be no fine involved, which if you had done some research you would realise.

lucylucky

liam8282 wrote: »

& by the same reckoning so are disabled spaces, positive discrimination & all that.

Correct. Well spotted:D

liam8282

People have only suggested alternatives to a small specifically chosen number of circumstances.

How can you feasibly distinguish between parking irresponsibly? and .....what else? There needs to be something else for that sentence to be complete , and responsibily, is that better for you? Will that now enable you to answer the question?

The impression I get from this thread is, if there is a space, you can park in it. After all, nothing can be done about it.

So that now goes for all parking spaces in private car parks, such as mother and child spaces, disabled bays etc.

One person may truly believe that parking in a mother and child space or disabled space is not irresponsible. So now it is a question of what a person thinks is right and wrong......... But at the end of the day, nothing can be done about it. Wrong Nothing enforceable. If it is wrong, please correct me.

You can't pick and choose where it is relevant, to suit your current argument.
There are alternatives to sticking up signs saying do not park here, some have been suggested, you are unwilling to engage in any sort of sensible dialogue about them.

Nothing enforceable or practical to any situation I suggested. Only situations that people could choose which has an easy solution. My suggestions were ignored, because there is no practical, cost effective, easy or enforceable solution.

But it is easier to say that I am the one not being sensible.

liam8282

lucylucky wrote: »

There would be no fine involved, which if you had done some research you would realise.

Was it you, or one of your cronies that implied that I was being pedantic and arguing on this thread?

liam8282

Has anybody managed to answer my original question yet?

Fair enough, but what is going to be done about all of those that park without permission on private land?