Police seized my car, NOT MY FAULT, cost me £150 - please help!

roddydogs

Well, my one post friend, do you really have no idea who could possibly have done this?

grant_uk

The_Deep wrote: »

How is that a non sequitur?

The usual way, the conclusion does not fit the premise;

I will explain

The conclusion is that the excess would render a claim uneconomic

The premise is that Council Tax payer should foot the bill.

Surely the premise that the OP is presenting is that he shouldn't be the one footing the bill. Whether it's his insurance, the police, the offending car-movers or a passing well-wisher, I doubt he'd be that fussed.

All you've done is suggest an option that still ends up with the OP footing the bill and then engaged in some pedantic back and forth to try and make yourself sound clever.

Marktheshark

Report it as Criminal damage and obtain a crime number.
Then when the idiot/ idiots that thought it was funny to do this surfaces you can sue them for the £150 loss.
See how funny the prank is then.

lazer

I thought the police would try and contact the owner too before moving the vehicle - it is not difficult for them to get the address of the owner - and possibly even a phone number.

Idiophreak

The_Deep wrote: »

Either he pays, or the insurance company pays, it is certainly not a charge for Council Tax payers, his sense of entitlement astounds me.

As one of your precious Council Tax payers, I'd be quite happy for my tax to be spent refunding the OP.

Here we have a bunch of jobsworth bobbies that decided to sit on their hands and wait for a tow truck rather than just getting the owner to come and move it. I imagine they had a nice warm cocoa in the car, maybe a bear claw or two, and were quite happy sitting and watching Mr Tow Man do his business before moving on to the next sucker.

Of course, this is phrased somewhat flippantly, but the point is sound. The police are there to help people and to try and fix problems. If the road was blocked, they should have tried to get the car moved as quickly as possible. They clearly didn't even try to contact someone who could *just have come and moved it*. They were intent on doing their "punishing" for the evening and are expecting OP, who's not at fault, to pay their keep.

Used to like the police, but rapidly concluding they either lack brain cells to rub together, or act maliciously just for the hell of it. Drunk on power, I suppose.

nidO

lazer wrote: »

I thought the police would try and contact the owner too before moving the vehicle - it is not difficult for them to get the address of the owner - and possibly even a phone number.

This is indeed perfectly easy and has happened to me before - Left my car parked in a secluded spot on a very cold evening, while I was away in an area with no mobile signal the cold weather caused a battery voltage drop which triggered the alarm - When I came back to the car there was a police car parked next to it, and one of them said they'd been trying to call me (and ultimately had left messages on both my landline and mobile voicemail) to find out if it was parked there or had been nicked and dumped.

I guess it just depends on how much effort the guy at the scene wants to go to and how quickly they want the car removed with no fuss, in my case the car was parked perfectly legally and in no-one's way, they just thought it might have been nicked, it could be a different matter if the car's blocking a road and they can get a tow truck quicker than their control can look up DVLA records on the PNC.

Trebor16

Idiophreak wrote: »

As one of your precious Council Tax payers, I'd be quite happy for my tax to be spent refunding the OP.
Here we have a bunch of jobsworth bobbies that decided to sit on their hands and wait for a tow truck rather than just getting the owner to come and move it. I imagine they had a nice warm cocoa in the car, maybe a bear claw or two, and were quite happy sitting and watching Mr Tow Man do his business before moving on to the next sucker.

And you know with complete certainty that they made no efforts whatsoever to contact the registered keeper of the car?

Idiophreak wrote:

Of course, this is phrased somewhat flippantly, but the point is sound. The police are there to help people and to try and fix problems.

Which is exactly what they did by removing the car and clearing the obstruction.

Idiophreak wrote:

If the road was blocked, they should have tried to get the car moved as quickly as possible.

Which they did by getting it removed.

Idiophreak wrote:

They clearly didn't even try to contact someone who could *just have come and moved it*. They were intent on doing their "punishing" for the evening and are expecting OP, who's not at fault, to pay their keep.

That must be one hell of a crystal ball you have there

Idiophreak wrote:

Used to like the police, but rapidly concluding they either lack brain cells to rub together, or act maliciously just for the hell of it. Drunk on power, I suppose.

What are you drunk on, utter stupidity for coming up with such claptrap?

The_Deep

What are you drunk on, utter stupidity for coming up with such claptrap?

Love it! This board is really attracting the nutters today

Idiophreak

Trebor16 wrote: »

And you know with complete certainty that they made no efforts whatsoever to contact the registered keeper of the car?

I don't see what reason OP has to lie about it. It's not hard for them to find out where a car's registered keeper.

Trebor16 wrote: »

Which is exactly what they did by removing the car and clearing the obstruction.

No, this got rid of the car, in the "official" "let's teach them a lesson" way. Not necessarily the quickest way. Or are you the one using a crystal ball now?

In my experience of tow trucks, walking around the corner, knocking on a door and saying "can you move your car, please?" would almost certainly be quicker.

Trebor16 wrote: »

What are you drunk on, utter stupidity for coming up with such claptrap?

So you think it's claptrap that the police should attempt to resolve issues in the quickest, most straightforward way?

LukeMo_2

Ahh quick responses, thanks all.

Firstly the car was moved by hand, by unknown people. Keys were in my coat pocket in the house.

What annoys me is that where I was parked, it is a wide road and also opposite a car park. It would have been easier and quicker for them to either put it back where it was or put it in the car park.

I went to citizens advice and they said to seek legal aide via my insurance company. Failing that see a solicitor.

It's more the principle of the thing, paying money to get my car back when I've done nothing wrong.