NCPs Parking shi**ead

megafan

Clamped a couple of months ago in Raheny literally left car to enter shop 4 mins at most on a wet cold dark evening & car clamped!!! Now I made no attempt to purchase a ticket at vending machine wrong I know but..... 120e to release OUCH! (less than 5mins to buy newspapers at local business how's that helping shop local campain??)
Now passing by same car park this evening same NCPs Go-for skulking around carpark waiting to pounce on similar offenders.... punters on way home from honest days labour nipping into local shops for quick purchase.... Grrrrrrrrr!!! :mad:

Crann na Beatha

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Rented Mule

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

Nooooo...don't do it.

Everyone who abandons cars leaves it "just for a few mins"

Fr_Dougal

megafan wrote: »

Clamped a couple of months ago in Raheny literally left car to enter shop 4 mins at most on a wet cold dark evening & car clamped!!! Now I made no attempt to purchase a ticket at vending machine wrong I know but..... 120e to release OUCH! (less than 5mins to buy newspapers at local business how's that helping shop local campain??)
Now passing by same car park this evening same NCPs Go-for skulking around carpark waiting to pounce on similar offenders.... punters on way home from honest days labour nipping into local shops for quick purchase.... Grrrrrrrrr!!! :mad:

Did you forget to put your hazards on?

Death and Taxes

Serves you right OP, they should have towed the car away.

Sh1tbag OToole

Pure scum those clampers. Its worth carrying a clamp removal device in the back of the car just to be sure

megafan

Rented Mule wrote: »

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

Nooooo...don't do it.

Let me at him (hold me back) just one swing!!!:pac:

Pasta Batman

A friend of a friend played the saxaphone for 30 mins when he came back and found his car clamped, and needed to raise the money.

Didn't work.

bernardamaac.

Bring glue the next time and glue it on.The clamp i bet costs more then 120e so a bit of payback will be in order and if they have to cut it off and do a bit of damage to the car i wonder what would happen

antodeco

I've always found parking as far onto the path as much as possible prevents me being clamped. I'm talking 4 wheels on the path. They can't clamp then, as the NCPS only have power on the roads, not the path.

mark renton

What does ncp mean?

recyclebin

You are allowed a certain amount of time to get a ticket. If they clamped you after 4 mins then appeal it or take them to small claims court.

Are you sure it was only 4 mins?

orestes

To hell with the immigrant/traveller/abortion/gay marriage/English/government/junkie threads, nothing brings out the knives in AH like a driver whinging about getting a fine for breaking the rules.

Phill Ewinn

don't pay next time

HondaSami

megafan wrote: »

Clamped a couple of months ago in Raheny literally left car to enter shop 4 mins at most on a wet cold dark evening & car clamped!!! Now I made no attempt to purchase a ticket at vending machine wrong I know but..... 120e to release OUCH! (less than 5mins to buy newspapers at local business how's that helping shop local campain??)
Now passing by same car park this evening same NCPs Go-for skulking around carpark waiting to pounce on similar offenders.... punters on way home from honest days labour nipping into local shops for quick purchase.... Grrrrrrrrr!!! :mad:

I thought shops allowed customers to park for a certain length of time. Majority of people say it was just a few minutes but it's usually longer.
I would never take the chance of leaving my car without a ticket where clamping is in place.

Bloody*Mary

Old Irish syndrome let you down, I'm afraid.

The auld 'Ah shure attitude' Ah shure I'm only here for 5 mins no need to bother and" Ah shure they'll let me off any if I come the 'old soldier''

Doesn't impress the clampers and rightly so.

pay up my friend,and learn your lesson.

mark renton

mark renton wrote: »

What does ncp mean?

Nice caring people

megafan

recyclebin wrote: »

You are allowed a certain amount of time to get a ticket. If they clamped you after 4 mins then appeal it or take them to small claims court.

Are you sure it was only 4 mins?

Yep was a bit amazed how quick he was & said he saw me making no attempt at purchasing ticket.... checked warning signs & did think a little bit of grace time given but if there was their's none now!!

Fr_Dougal

Bloody*Mary wrote: »

Old Irish syndrome let you down, I'm afraid.

The auld 'Ah shure attitude' Ah shure I'm only here for 5 mins no need to bother and" Ah shure they'll let me off any if I come the 'old soldier''

Doesn't impress the clampers and rightly so.

pay up my friend,and learn your lesson.

What about John Q Taxpayer?

mark renton

rarnes1 wrote: »

Nice caring people

I do wish there was a ban on tla's - brings on a headache.

SV

They don't have any right to clamp you. Unlucky for paying!

Guy:Incognito

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Pure scum those clampers. Its worth carrying a clamp removal device in the back of the car just to be sure

Theres a handy device that stops it in the first place. Its metal, round, about an inch across and can be exchanged for a ticket that lets you park when your a guest on someone elses property.

Guy:Incognito

antodeco wrote: »

I've always found parking as far onto the path as much as possible prevents me being clamped. I'm talking 4 wheels on the path. They can't clamp then, as the NCPS only have power on the roads, not the path.

You know parking on a path is illegal? A gard or a parking warden can ticket you ( and hopefully will)

Phill Ewinn wrote: »

don't pay next time

He didnt pay this time, thats why he was clamped.

Sh1tbag OToole

Bloody*Mary wrote: »

Old Irish syndrome let you down, I'm afraid.

The auld 'Ah shure attitude' Ah shure I'm only here for 5 mins no need to bother and" Ah shure they'll let me off any if I come the 'old soldier''

Doesn't impress the clampers and rightly so.

pay up my friend,and learn your lesson.

The old Irish 'sure be grand' society was a much better and friendly one to live in. What made things as cut throat as they are now? Outside pressure from other countries and celtic tiger greed? Surely for any normal humane person the old way is the preferred way

snubbleste

SV wrote: »

They don't have any right to clamp you. Unlucky for paying!

You mean the OP has no right to park where he did?

SV

snubbleste wrote: »

You mean the OP has no right to park where he did?

No, I mean NCPS had no right to clamp him.

Sh1tbag OToole

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Theres a handy device that stops it in the first place. Its metal, round, about an inch across and can be exchanged for a ticket that lets you park when your a guest on someone elses property.

Boring rule-abider you are

HondaSami

SV wrote: »

They don't have any right to clamp you. Unlucky for paying!

How come they are all over the place so clamping everything in sight and getting away with it?

razorgil

why not go the whole hog, and leave the car running with lights on and all, indicator on, and off you go on your merry way.

Rented Mule

megafan wrote: »

Let me at him (hold me back) just one swing!!!:pac:

...and keep your eyeeeeeeeeeeeee on the sparrow !!

antodeco

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

You know parking on a path is illegal? A gard or a parking warden can ticket you ( and hopefully will)

Eh, you aware this is AH? You need you sarcasm filter switched on

kirving

Bloody*Mary wrote: »

Old Irish syndrome let you down, I'm afraid.

The auld 'Ah shure attitude' Ah shure I'm only here for 5 mins no need to bother and" Ah shure they'll let me off any if I come the 'old soldier''

Doesn't impress the clampers and rightly so.

pay up my friend,and learn your lesson.

The auld Irish - "You probably deserved it" attitude that saw kids beaten, (and worse) in schools for years, and the "just pay it" attitude that saw people get ripped off for everything in this country, from houses to wheel clamps.

It doesn't change the fact that private clamping remains illegal.

BillyMitchel

Do a Homer Simpson OP and drive off with it on, that will teach em!

Dartz

Angle Grinder in the boot.

Park anywhere.

Ballyfermot is a bad place for it too. It's technically pay and display, but I've never seen anyone pay. They just nip into the newsagents and out again thirty seconds later.

Where To

If I had my way all cars would be clamped, illegally parked or not.

Ihatecuddles-old

Where To wrote: »

If I had my way all cars would be clamped, illegally parked or not.

What will you do then? Give people jockey backs around Dublin?

Where To

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

What will you do then? Give people jockey backs around Dublin?

I don't drive a car.

BillyMitchel

Where To wrote: »

I don't drive a car.

Taxi man if my memory is correct? No wonder you don't want a car on the road!!

Pottler

"Clamp ahead ye little b0llix, I'll cut it off and ram it through your windscreen".
-friend of mine to clamper.

He didn't clamp it.:(

I was mildly dissapointed. I've never seen a clamp go through a windscreen. I think they prefer clamping nice peoples cars.

charlemont

Kevin Irving wrote: »

The auld Irish - "You probably deserved it" attitude that saw kids beaten, (and worse) in schools for years, and the "just pay it" attitude that saw people get ripped off for everything in this country, from houses to wheel clamps.

It doesn't change the fact that private clamping remains illegal.

It gives these types a trill, Getting off on rules and regulations.

I'v noticed the clampers there tend not to bother vans or cars that would appear to belong to members of a certain ethnic group..:pac:

IM0

you did something stupid, you got caught and have to pay for it

???
profit*




*for the clampers

Pottler

charlemont wrote: »

It gives these types a trill, Getting off on rules and regulations.

I'v noticed the clampers there tend not to bother vans or cars that would appear to belong to members of a certain ethnic group..:pac:

You saying my Hiace looks rough?:D Ok...It might..a bit..

MaxSteele

Clampers are worthless human beings. Imagine, people on the way home from work, stopping to buy an item or two from a spar or whatever and these little cretins just lurking and waiting to pounce.

If I had weeks or days left to live I'd attempt to take as many of the fcukers down with me.

AnarchistKen

Cut the clamp off. There's such things called battery operated angle grinder.

I'd cut if off in full view of the clamper and leave it beside his car. They might try threats of criminal damage but no judge in this country has the time or patience to hear such a case.

Remember to cover the car from splash backs of sparks coming off the cutting disc!

Bloody*Mary

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

The old Irish 'sure be grand' society was a much better and friendly one to live in. What made things as cut throat as they are now? Outside pressure from other countries and celtic tiger greed? Surely for any normal humane person the old way is the preferred way

Maybe it was, you are quite right there.

However, things change and as pressure for space in towns and urban areas increases,I'm afraid so must the rules.

these rules are fashioned for the greater good and fairness of those using the facilities and unfortunately won't work unless they are enforced.