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Rogue clampers jailed

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  • daveyjp
    daveyjp Posts: 14,136 Forumite
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    This was on our local news as one of the people clamped lived in Yorkshire. She was visiting her mum in Torquay whilst on a short break from service in Iraq, she was due to fly back the next day. Visited her mum, went to car park to drive to the airport and the car had gone. Car had been parked for less than two hours (the time the sign said you had until it was towed), hadn't even been clamped, but had been towed - £500+ to get it released.

    The telling point to this story is this:

    "The three admitted the offences following a complex four-year investigation, led by Avon and Somerset Police and involving Bristol City Council's trading standards department."

    Four years work for police and TS! No wonder very few police and TS depts are willing to follow any blackmail cases up.
  • https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3683459 Sorry, you were pipped at the post.
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • TrickyWicky
    TrickyWicky Posts: 4,025 Forumite
    Good, it's about time someone dealt with the clampers properly.
  • cajef
    cajef Posts: 6,283 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic

    Oops, I did look through the forum and missed that, time for a visit to specsavers methinks.:o
  • Bit like New York, its so good they jailed them twice Ha Ha.
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • treeboa
    treeboa Posts: 84 Forumite
    be nice if the law going through at the moment gets passed and puts the lot on the dole
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