Bbc Bailiffs Whisleblower

Thefunkygibbons

Pondlife

A pox on their house

rchddap1

Did watch the programme. And personally I think calling the people shown 'pondlife' is being cruel to the pond / fish etc....

Absolutely horrid.

What really got me raging was when one of the baliffs was making threats to young children.

Storm

I missed the programme because I was working overtime (very DFW) - but I read the bit on the BBC website about it and was horrified. How come though, last week when it was footie managers taking bungs it was all over the news the following morning, but this week - nada?!

anniestar

Interesting. This backs up EVERYTHING I have said. The two visits that the bailiff said had occured didnt happen. They kept bumping up the costs. Have got MP &local council involved. Its pretty difficult to prove that you were at home on a particular date but have supplired reams of stuff to try to prove that I am telling the truth. Its easy to see just how costs rocket.B**t*rds!!!

LookingAhead

For those of you who missed it and have broadband, you can watch it again online:

http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=all&go=homepage&q=whistleblower&scope=all

catkins

OH has had a letter from CCS (or whatever they call themselves) about an unpaid congestion charge which he genuinely forgot to pay. We have received no previous letters or vists and they are claiming £700!!

After watching the programme last night we are now determined to fight this. He is quite prepared to pay the original congestion charge fee plus however much it goes up by BUT no way is he going to pay this crooked firm for letters and visits which they probably never carried out.

I can never understand why their letters do not have been sent recorded or registered post so there is proof that they have been sent and/or received

CharleneUK

LookingAhead wrote:

For those of you who missed it and have broadband, you can watch it again online:

http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=all&go=homepage&q=whistleblower&scope=all

Fantastic! Thank you! Will watch it tonight after work.

going2die_rich

La_Tristesse_Durera wrote:

That is sick;

Wheble was given a 'slim jim', a small plastic strip which can be used to unlock doors in 15 seconds. But perhaps the most extraordinary behaviour came from a public-school-educated bailiff working for CCS who was nicknamed "Mr Ladders' by his colleagues because he would climb up a ladder to intimidate people in their bedrooms.

You know, if any bailiff climbed up a ladder to my bedroom whilst I was in the house, I'd push him off it onto the concrete below. Scum. And the quote about telling the two young children that their Mother would go to jail, that's just wrong.

Thanks skint1 - I'll be watching this on Tuesday

You realise you could give the person a good kicking preferably with a strong object and claim that they never identified themselves so obviosuly you knew they weren't the police or any other type of offical like that so pressumed it was a burglar and defended yourself and your property.

Obviously stay within the law by making it reasonable force - i.e. go for a head blow straight away, if it kills them you only swung once so it was reasonable force, and don't hit them when they are down

kittykat100

Absolute Scum!!!!!!

Mike_St_Helens

OMG... A bailiff has just knocked on the door for the business rates of the pub we used to have !!! OMG...

I told him we have a bankruptcy date, and he was very pleasant and walked off !!