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Clamping / towing

  • 16-04-2013 09:16PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 545 ✭✭✭


    Do you agree with it? As a victim of clampers, (scum) who waas genuinely clamped TWICE in the wrong from the clamper not seeing my ticket / permit clearly on display on the window, I absolutely abhor the practice. Punishing someone with a big yellow monstrosity for being slightly late or having no parking ticket is absurd. Just impose a fine and send it to the registered owner of the car, like a speeding fine. Clamping a car is a barbaric practice.

    I only agree with towing when some prick is parked in a handicapped spot or bus lane or blocking a road / driveway.
    No ticket at all = small fine (€80)
    Expired ticket = €5 for every 10 minutes expired with a max of €80

    Do you agree with clamping / towing 38 votes

    In no circumstances
    0%
    For wrong occupation of handicapped spot / no ticket / expired ticket etc all offences
    31%
    giant_midgetSVsquodbranienicolaedkyeevPlanemoHerb Powellrxan90PizzamanIRLKinzigLenin Skynard 12 votes
    Only for no ticket / disabled badge
    34%
    VictorneilmDr.Winston O'BoogieSeachmallbbuzzjonnny68DoylersNino BrownThe InternetScrufflesakuraValettaDeath and Taxes 13 votes
    Towing for blocking lane / disabled spot, but not clamping but not for expired / no ticket
    7%
    facemanhauliesleapWhatsernamex33 3 votes
    Expired ticket = small fine, no ticket = fine, parking in disabled spot / bus lane = towing
    26%
    arybvtcw0eolkfDeedsiebigwillieTiddlypeepsPeetrik15PetepaulmclaughlinTheBrinchahnowbrowncowFreddy Smelly 10 votes


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Should have stuck on the hazards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭Knasher


    I'm against clamping. If a car is parked somewhere it shouldn't be, it hardly makes sense to put something on it so it can't leave.

    I've no problem with fines or if the car is in the way, towing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    I genuinely feel sorry for clampers. The amount of abuse and sh1t they get from people just for doing their jobs is shocking. If you screwed up and got caught, though sh1t, whether you agree with the idea of clamping or not don't blame the guy who is imposing the penalty.It's like giving out to a waiter because you don't like the prices of a restaurant.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 545 ✭✭✭Chemical Burn


    orestes wrote: »
    I genuinely feel sorry for clampers.

    they know what job they're getting into. no sympathy


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    orestes wrote: »
    I genuinely feel sorry for clampers./QUOTE]

    they know what job they're getting into. no sympathy
    Maybe they need a job and have no other alternative? If you had a valid ticket appeal it.
    EDIT: Meant to quote Chemical Burn!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 346 ✭✭Big Bottom


    People who park where they arent allowed to need pay the price.

    Q: Oh, why has this happened to me? They put a clamp on my car, its like paradoxical or someting.

    A: Park where you are allowed.

    Simple really.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 955 ✭✭✭Scruffles


    Only for no ticket / disabled badge
    as a blue badge owner who relies on disabled parking bays,am all for putting big enough fine tickets on the cars of people who dont own blue badges but feel they have a need to take the spot of those who do-to small a fine and people who arent necesarily poor will risk it time and time again.
    but am not so sure about clamping,regardless of them being a dick for parking in a disabled bay,they may not have the money there and then to pay it off and get their car unclamped,it coud leave them stranded,it is their own fault but it isnt nice at all.

    am definitely against clamping for all other wrong parking,in some towns they have so litle parking that its like the council deliberatelty make it easier for people to park in non parkable areas,an area that used to live in had almost no parking whatsoever for anyone who didnt have blue badges ,so they all used to park in the areas marked for taxi parking.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Big Bottom wrote: »
    People who park where they arent allowed to need pay the price.

    Q: Oh, why has this happened to me? They put a clamp on my car, its like paradoxical or someting.

    A: Park where you are allowed.

    Simple really.


    And if anyone knows about parking, clamping and towing, it's big bottom! :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Clamper b*stards etc, etc,....what's the question?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    As part of my work stuff, I carry an 18volt cordless steel-cutting bandsaw. They have yet to invent the lock/clamp/anything that can resist its gnashers. A wheel-clamp chain takes less than one second to cut through. A solid inch bar might delay it for four or five tops. "Your going to put what on my wheel?... Right, well, good luck with that." For a party trick, it can cut a padlock in half, so you can see the inside workings.:)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    As part of my work stuff, I carry an 18volt cordless steel-cutting bandsaw. They have yet to invent the lock/clamp/anything that can resist its gnashers. A wheel-clamp chain takes less than one second to cut through. A solid inch bar might delay it for four or five tops. "Your going to put what on my wheel?... Right, well, good luck with that."
    Of course it would save you the hassle, and the risk of being indicted for criminal damage, by just... not parking in a place where you'll get clamped for parking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    As part of my work stuff, I carry an 18volt cordless steel-cutting bandsaw. They have yet to invent the lock/clamp/anything that can resist its gnashers. A wheel-clamp chain takes less than one second to cut through. A solid inch bar might delay it for four or five tops. "Your going to put what on my wheel?... Right, well, good luck with that." For a party trick, it can cut a padlock in half, so you can see the inside workings.:)

    That's all good but how do you get the sticker off the window?....Surely if you pay the fine they should have to restore your window to it's original state.

    Or have they stopped putting the stickers on the windows, I haven't noticed too many around lately.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    Turtyturd wrote: »
    That's all good but how do you get the sticker off the window?....Surely if you pay the fine they should have to restore your window to it's original state.

    Or have they stopped putting the stickers on the windows, I haven't noticed too many around lately.
    ...as part of my work stuff I have aerosol cans of industrial sticker remover in the van. (I actually do:P). Also, never been clamped as I don't park like a dick. I always stick it into a multi-storey. I was just saying, if I did get clamped, it would not be a biggie as I spend my time chopping through metal stuff. But, because I don't need the grief, I actually park responsibly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 545 ✭✭✭Chemical Burn


    Madam_X wrote: »
    Of course it would save you the hassle, and the risk of being indicted for criminal damage, by just... not parking in a place where you'll get clamped for parking.

    :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    What fcuking sort of poll options are those last two? I can't make head nor tails of them whatsoever. It's alright because I never vote in polls anyway, but it'd be nice to understand what they mean all the same.

    Oh yeah, no clamping down in Cork, deadly bai! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,150 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    ...as part of my work stuff I have aerosol cans of industrial sticker remover in the van. (I actually do:P). Also, never been clamped as I don't park like a dick. I always stick it into a multi-storey. I was just saying, if I did get clamped, it would not be a biggie as I spend my time chopping through metal stuff. But, because I don't need the grief, I actually park responsibly.

    There's plenty of incidents where people park responsibly but still get clamped.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    What fcuking sort of poll options are those last two? I can't make head nor tails of them whatsoever. It's alright because I never vote in polls anyway, but it'd be nice to understand what they mean all the same.

    Oh yeah, no clamping down in Cork, deadly bai! :pac:

    The second last one is like a word puzzle.

    There should be an option to say you don't have a problem with it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    I used to live in an apt complex in the IFSC, near Connolly Station. Me and a lot of my neighbours, paid good money for our reserved parking spaces, that were on private property. Lots of people who worked in the area, or were attending events in the area, or were using Connolly & who didn't want to pay for their own parking, used to chance their arms and park in our apt complex. Leaving the residents no where to park their own cars.

    There were signs clearly visible that you would be clamped if you were an unregistered car, parking in a space that wasn't yours. But people still chanced their arms anyway. So, I have no sympathy what so ever for people who found themselves clamped if they parked on our property. Fcuk off and pay for your own damm parking people ! :mad::mad::mad:


  • Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    There was thread in motors some time back where a fella got clamped. Boardsies came to his rescue and unclamped him without any damage. It all went on live on boards with picture updates and was a brilliant read. Would search and link to it but on crappy phone.


  • Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Found it! Long thread but definitely worth the read. 85,000 views!!!

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=79292669


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,090 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    To show how bad clamper's can be take a look at the picture below and I also happened to see the clamping too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    As part of my work stuff, I carry an 18volt cordless steel-cutting bandsaw. They have yet to invent the lock/clamp/anything that can resist its gnashers. A wheel-clamp chain takes less than one second to cut through. A solid inch bar might delay it for four or five tops. "Your going to put what on my wheel?... Right, well, good luck with that." For a party trick, it can cut a padlock in half, so you can see the inside workings.:)

    So what do you tell the Judge when you've been summoned to appear in Court on charges of criminal damage?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,254 ✭✭✭Yawns


    So what do you tell the Judge when you've been summoned to appear in Court on charges of criminal damage?

    If it was me I'd be telling the Judge that when I came back to my car, there was no clamp and I just got in and drove away. Of course I wouldn't be cutting a clamp off in front of a clamper or any eye witness. Let the clamper prove who did criminal damage beyond doubt.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,568 ✭✭✭Chinasea


    And what about this OP? Should you really be stirring up more hate against clampers that are just doing their jobs? REALLY?

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/man-jailed-for-assault-that-left-clamper-profoundly-disabled-526287.html


    28/10/2011 - 18:21:41
    A Clondalkin man who left a clamper with severe neurological damage after he struck his head with a lump hammer has been sentenced to 10 years with the final three suspended.

    Gheorghe Pista was clamping Gerard Sweeney’s girlfriend’s car when Sweeney approached him shouting and swearing that he was not going to pay the fine.

    He then went to the boot of the car, took out a lump hammer, came back to the front of the vehicle where Mr Pista and his colleague were, and struck him on the left side of his head knocking the man to the ground.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,103 ✭✭✭Tiddlypeeps


    Expired ticket = small fine, no ticket = fine, parking in disabled spot / bus lane = towing
    Chinasea wrote: »
    And what about this OP? Should you really be stirring up more hate against clampers that are just doing their jobs? REALLY?

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/man-jailed-for-assault-that-left-clamper-profoundly-disabled-526287.html


    28/10/2011 - 18:21:41
    A Clondalkin man who left a clamper with severe neurological damage after he struck his head with a lump hammer has been sentenced to 10 years with the final three suspended.

    Gheorghe Pista was clamping Gerard Sweeney’s girlfriend’s car when Sweeney approached him shouting and swearing that he was not going to pay the fine.

    He then went to the boot of the car, took out a lump hammer, came back to the front of the vehicle where Mr Pista and his colleague were, and struck him on the left side of his head knocking the man to the ground.

    Hating clamping is not the same as approving of somebody inflicting serious harm on another person.

    To insinuate that people protesting against clamping are to blame for the above is ridiculous.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,568 ✭✭✭Chinasea



    To insinuate that people protesting against clamping are to blame for the above is ridiculous.

    This serious incident happened. It didn't just happen, there are other reports of clampers being attacked. There is, as discussed a clear redress system in place if you have been clamped unlawfully. Leaving a man with severe neurological damage after being struck over the head with a lump hammer IS NOT ONE OF THEM.

    This thug was so deluded, he actually believed he could take the law into his own hands and viciously attack. IMO threads like this are used to incite the Lynch Mob adding to and generating HATE.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    So everybody who vociferously questions the right of someone or an organisation to immobilise your vehicle is indirectly responsible for people getting assaulted? Get out of it. Really like. The only person responsible for this assault was the man who committed it, nobody else.

    And people are still fully entitled to disagree with clamping as a practice.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,103 ✭✭✭Tiddlypeeps


    Expired ticket = small fine, no ticket = fine, parking in disabled spot / bus lane = towing
    Chinasea wrote: »
    This serious incident happened. It didn't just happen, there are other reports of clampers being attacked. There is, as discussed a clear redress system in place if you have been clamped unlawfully. Leaving a man with severe neurological damage after being struck over the head with a lump hammer IS NOT ONE OF THEM.

    This thug was so deluded, he actually believed he could take the law into his own hands and viciously attack. IMO threads like this are used to incite the Lynch Mob adding to and generating HATE.

    The fact that that incident happens it awful, and I hope the perpetrator didn't get off lightly.

    Blaming it on anybody other than the guy that carried out the act is stupid.

    Politicians are often the target of hateful acts from people who disapprove of what they do, some people take it way too far. Some politicians have even been murdered because people don't like what they do. Does this mean that we should never criticise politicians incase it encourages more to people inflict verbal and physical abuse on them?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,599 ✭✭✭SeanW


    ProudDUB wrote: »
    I used to live in an apt complex in the IFSC, near Connolly Station. Me and a lot of my neighbours, paid good money for our reserved parking spaces, that were on private property. Lots of people who worked in the area, or were attending events in the area, or were using Connolly & who didn't want to pay for their own parking, used to chance their arms and park in our apt complex. Leaving the residents no where to park their own cars.

    There were signs clearly visible that you would be clamped if you were an unregistered car, parking in a space that wasn't yours. But people still chanced their arms anyway. So, I have no sympathy what so ever for people who found themselves clamped if they parked on our property. Fcuk off and pay for your own damm parking people ! :mad::mad::mad:
    Here's the thing: if the car was towed away instead, you would have your space freed up!

    Thats why I agree with the OP - small fine for small offenses (expired ticket), tow away for serious ones e.g. blocking anything.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭Nino Brown


    Only for no ticket / disabled badge
    Personally I have a major problem with clamping, so to avoid it, I park legally


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