MSE News: Cowboy clampers 'could start new parking scams'

bazster

whitelabel wrote: »

They didnt but they will have...

Wrong. Try reading the law instead of the newspapers:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/9/contents/enacted

You want Schedule 4, it's not very long.

Pincher

Some idiot parked in my drive for a week.

Neither the council enforcement nor the police will lift a finger, as it is on private land.

bazster

Pincher wrote: »

Some idiot parked in my drive for a week.

Neither the council enforcement nor the police will lift a finger, as it is on private land.

The good news for you is that the new Act empowers the Police and Local Authorities to remove vehicles from private land.

BASFORDLAD

I am in birmingham most weeks with work, so i will do my best to get one of these £150 tickets, i can then run round saying "ive won i've won".

As he isnt an AOS member i wonder how he is going to enforce these lovely tickets

Does anyone know where in Birmingham his car parks are?

Oh and the report is so inacurrate you couldnt make it up

bazster

BASFORDLAD wrote: »

I am in birmingham most weeks with work, so i will do my best to get one of these £150 tickets, i can then run round saying "ive won i've won".

I wonder if he is an AOS member

Does anyone know where in Birmingham he car parks are?

Indeed, he's in for a bit of a surprise when he dishes out all these tickets and no-one pays them! What's more, he's not a member of the AOS, so he will not even be able to find out who the naughty parkers are!

What a w****r.

Lum

I think the most interesting line in that article is:

But one bit off more than he could chew when he clamped a marked police car, ending up with an Asbo.

How typical that the police only bother to do anything about it when it's one of their own that is targeted. It's that attitude that allows operations like this to flourish in the first place!

whitelabel

mm ok so it seems a deliberate misinformation article

why would they run with that,, its Trinity Mirror owned not just a little local rag....

I wonder how much he paid then to do it, to scare people in to paying when they get a ticket in the future !

ManxRed

Dunno. The article has been laughed at, sorry, discussed on other threads on here.

Lots of newspaper stories get linked on here, and some are OK, and some are awful. Remember, the people on here are clued up about private parking, whereas your average journo (and his editors) aren't.

We get to see all sorts of misinformation in the newspapers about this sort of thing. Its not just the Sunday Mercury or Trinity Mirror in particular.

BASFORDLAD

whitelabel wrote: »

mm ok so it seems a deliberate misinformation article

why would they run with that,, its Trinity Mirror owned not just a little local rag....

I wonder how much he paid then to do it, to scare people in to paying when they get a ticket in the future !

Just bad work

whitelabel

may contact the journalist and get them to print a retraction that the tickets will not be changing to legally enforceable ones with same power as ticket warden.