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sheriffs and bailiffs
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01-12-2009 5:43pm#1
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As a wise man once said "anyway if hes making a living out of this FAIR PLAY to him. it would be worse if he was claiming dole"
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=60995538&postcount=215does that mean they morally and ethically believe in their job ? or does it mean its a job and a wage at the end of the week so fcuh it get on with it. 0 -
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You tell Pighead what it means! You said it.mirror mirror wrote: »does that mean they morally and ethically believe in their job ? or does it mean its a job and a wage at the end of the week so fcuh it get on with it.0 -
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mirror mirror wrote: »wait for it,its coming. Pighead's guessing you've got a few tabs open and that message wasn't meant for here. Not to worry, just copy what you wrote and paste it into your www.cybersex.com tab.
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you got me there pighead.........whats your favourite =ANIMAL FARM:P:P Pighead's guessing you've got a few tabs open and that message wasn't meant for here. Not to worry, just copy what you wrote and paste it into your www.cybersex.com tab.
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mirror mirror wrote: »does that mean they morally and ethically believe in their job ? or does it mean its a job and a wage at the end of the week so fcuh it get on with it.
What's wrong with their job mirror mirror?
They only turn up as a last resort,It's not their fault your neighbor couldn't be arsed sorting out his debt's.0 -
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I worked as an Enforcement Officer (Bailiff) for 4 years, quitting 3.5years ago when i moved over here.
I could write a book on what went on, some pretty mad stuff.
I consider myself a decent enough, pleasant guy. I fell into the job while working the doors, a good friend of mine was a manager in a Bailiff Company and asked if i'd like to give it a shot.
I maiinly dealt with unpaid fines, taxes and council tax. 50% of the debtors i visited were pure scumbags, the rest were just people who had fallen on hard times. If i went to a house and could see they had no effects (Goods to satisfy the debt) then i'd return it to the courts for further court action.
What people don't realise is that when i Bailiff knocks on your door it really is the last straw, for example, a guy gets a fine of 100notes. He has 30 days to pay it, he's aware of the fine. (Could even take a means test and pay it weekly) He doesn't pay it, he gets another letter saying that if it's not paid within 28 days it will increase by 50%.
He still ignores it, a further letter is sent out from the courts giving him 7 days to pay in full before the a Distress Warrant is issued to a Private Bailiff Company.
He still ignores it, so the Warrant came to us. We send him a letter saying you owe 150 fine and 30 Bailiff charge, total 180. If he did not respond and make a reasonable offer of weekly payments (normally tried to get them cleared in 2 months) then a Bailiff would visit his home and execute the Warrant, incurring a further Bailiff fee of 150quid.
He ignores that and a Bailiff wil turn up demanding 330 quid or he'll remove goods.
Some people just will not pay a fine, the amount of people i removed goods from, then ended up visiting them again 6 months later was unreal.
Some people i felt genuinely sorry for, i'd push them for maybe 10 mins for a payment, if none was forthcoming i'd just return it to the courts, but others, the pure scum who constantly avoided paying fines & taxes i'd take all the way.
As for getting a Bailiff's Certificate, that was pretty hard, ya had to have a squeeky clean credit record and undergo yearly police checks. Also every 2 years your cert had to be renewed, this entailed an hour meeting with a county court judge who would quiz you on the laws of Distress, if ya didn;t answer correctly, ya didn't get your certificate.
Loved telling the cops to get lost when they asked me to leave a property, they couldn't touch me
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I worked as an Enforcement Officer (Bailiff) for 4 years, quitting 3.5years ago when i moved over here.
I could write a book on what went on, some pretty mad stuff.
I consider myself a decent enough, pleasant guy. I fell into the job while working the doors, a good friend of mine was a manager in a Bailiff Company and asked if i'd like to give it a shot.
I maiinly dealt with unpaid fines, taxes and council tax. 50% of the debtors i visited were pure scumbags, the rest were just people who had fallen on hard times. If i went to a house and could see they had no effects (Goods to satisfy the debt) then i'd return it to the courts for further court action.
What people don't realise is that when i Bailiff knocks on your door it really is the last straw, for example, a guy gets a fine of 100notes. He has 30 days to pay it, he's aware of the fine. (Could even take a means test and pay it weekly) He doesn't pay it, he gets another letter saying that if it's not paid within 28 days it will increase by 50%.
He still ignores it, a further letter is sent out from the courts giving him 7 days to pay in full before the a Distress Warrant is issued to a Private Bailiff Company.
He still ignores it, so the Warrant came to us. We send him a letter saying you owe 150 fine and 30 Bailiff charge, total 180. If he did not respond and make a reasonable offer of weekly payments (normally tried to get them cleared in 2 months) then a Bailiff would visit his home and execute the Warrant, incurring a further Bailiff fee of 150quid.
He ignores that and a Bailiff wil turn up demanding 330 quid or he'll remove goods.
Some people just will not pay a fine, the amount of people i removed goods from, then ended up visiting them again 6 months later was unreal.
Some people i felt genuinely sorry for, i'd push them for maybe 10 mins for a payment, if none was forthcoming i'd just return it to the courts, but others, the pure scum who constantly avoided paying fines & taxes i'd take all the way.
As for getting a Bailiff's Certificate, that was pretty hard, ya had to have a squeeky clean credit record and undergo yearly police checks. Also every 2 years your cert had to be renewed, this entailed an hour meeting with a county court judge who would quiz you on the laws of Distress, if ya didn;t answer correctly, ya didn't get your certificate.
Loved telling the cops to get lost when they asked me to leave a property, they couldn't touch me:D
Indeed. My experience of the Revenue Sheriff is the same, it's usually people who bury their head in the sand that get bother.Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.
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Dealt with a few celebrities in my time, we had an office down in South Wales so once a month i'd work from down there.
One of the less experienced bailiffs came to me with a problem, he had 8 warrants for non payment of motoring offences for a World Class Snooker Player, so he asked me to help get them paid.
I rang this Snooker Player, and his agent answered, he said he would not be paying the fines as he disputed them, told him time had gone past that, he had to pay, withh all our fee's, then dispute it. He totally refused, so i told him that the car on the warrant, a Ferrari i believe, was currently parked outside a venue in York where the player was competing, i would be there in 3hrs and weould make sure plenty of press were there also.
He saw sense and paid 0 -
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), broke his heart to do it most days but he had no money and had to provide for his family. 
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