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Car Impounded, any advice please?

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  • LandyAndy
    LandyAndy Posts: 26,377 Forumite
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    Conor wrote: »
    Another example of Goldspanners illiteracy.

    Here's a fiver. Go buy yourself a life as you obviously don't have one with the amount of stalking of me you do.

    '''''''''' Here are some apostrophes. You seem to be missing them.;)
  • goldspanners
    goldspanners Posts: 5,910 Forumite
    Conor wrote: »
    Another example of Goldspanners illiteracy.

    Here's a fiver. Go buy yourself a life as you obviously don't have one with the amount of stalking of me you do.

    is this what you meant the other day about the truth hurting? :rotfl:
    ...work permit granted!
  • goldspanners
    goldspanners Posts: 5,910 Forumite
    LandyAndy wrote: »
    '''''''''' Here are some apostrophes. You seem to be missing them.;)

    i wonder if he knows where to put one of them?
    ...work permit granted!
  • Smi1er
    Smi1er Posts: 642 Forumite
    Craig_C wrote: »
    Can anybody help with any advice?

    Yes, you could of read the signs visible telling you not to park there without displaying the proper badge or you would be towed...

    Or decide to take the chance being a selfish !!!!! and park in a disabled space. Get caught and towed, and then have the cheek to maon about it.

    You chose the latter. You chose wrong.
  • goldspanners
    goldspanners Posts: 5,910 Forumite
    Smi1er wrote: »
    Yes, you could of read the signs visible telling you not to park there without displaying the proper badge or you would be towed...

    Or decide to take the chance being a selfish !!!!! and park in a disabled space. Get caught and towed, and then have the cheek to maon about it.

    You chose the latter. You chose wrong.

    i think this is a bit unfair, as the op says there were plenty of disabled spaces available had the need for one arrived.
    im all for fining folk who dont have the right to use a disabled spaces,when the car park is busy at peak times but not when its empty,this is just ridiculous.
    ...work permit granted!
  • Woby_Tide
    Woby_Tide Posts: 5,344 Forumite
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    I'm intrigued that someone has no money for food or public transport can afford the tax, insurance and fuel for a car
  • Hintza
    Hintza Posts: 19,420 Forumite
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    Too many disabled spaces anyway.
  • headpin
    headpin Posts: 780 Forumite
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    I assume that this was on the street and not in a private car park?

    If so you have no option but to pay up if you are admitting the offence.

    If it was a private car park then there are legal requirements that need to be followed before a car can be removed and/or clamped. For a start the operative (not the Company) doing the deed must be SSA Licensed. There must be suitable and visible signing that includes the rules for parking or not parking as the case may be, the Name of the Company Operating the Scheme, the Charges and a contact address and telephone number of how to retrieve/unclamp the vehicle. If any of this information is missing, then it is a Criminal Act by the person doing the deed and the police should be called. You wil probably find the police say it's nothing to do with them as it's a Civil Matter. This is true, but not if any of the SSA Requirements are not be observed/performed when it then becomes a Criminal matter that the police should act upon.
  • john_s_2
    john_s_2 Posts: 698 Forumite
    i think this is a bit unfair, as the op says there were plenty of disabled spaces available had the need for one arrived.
    im all for fining folk who dont have the right to use a disabled spaces,when the car park is busy at peak times but not when its empty,this is just ridiculous.

    Certainly an argument for having disabled bays at one point during the day, and making them 'regular' bays at another. But in this case they were disabled bays 24/7.

    Can't do the time, don't do the crime. And certainly don't whinge about it afterwards.
  • goldspanners
    goldspanners Posts: 5,910 Forumite
    john_s wrote: »
    Certainly an argument for having disabled bays at one point during the day, and making them 'regular' bays at another. But in this case they were disabled bays 24/7.

    Can't do the time, don't do the crime. And certainly don't whinge about it afterwards.

    that all costs money. and its hardly crime of the century is it?
    ...work permit granted!
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