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Dublin Clampers Clamped

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  • #2
    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,580 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    zg3409 wrote: »
    Dublin Clampers Clamped, but by who?

    261948.jpg

    From:
    https://twitter.com/cksolutions/status/354880365103550464/photo/1

    Im at a loss to guess how in the hell did that happen?

    :D

    Is that a private clamping company or something?


  • #3
    zg3409
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭zg3409


    They seemed to have been clamped on Mountpleasant terrace, near the canal in Ranelagh:

    https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Mountpleasant+Terrace,+Ranelagh,+Dublin,+Ireland&hl=en&sll=53.329034,-6.25931&sspn=0.003185,0.009602&oq=mountpleasant+terraceRanelagh,+County+Dublin,+Ireland&hnear=Mountpleasant+Terrace,+County+Dublin,+Ireland&t=m&z=16

    I know the harbour police in Dun Laoghaire also clamp, along with some private companies in shopping centres and gated apartments etc.


  • #4
    Viper_JB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Viper_JB


    Well in fairness it's like 2 feet into double yellow lines, so illegally parked.


  • #5
    zg3409
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭zg3409


    I used google streetview and it is indeed this street. I got this parking sign from the other side of the street but I assume the same rules apply the other side of the street.

    261974.JPG

    It is partly parked on the yellow lines, so if they had a permit, or had paid for parking, they still would be liable.

    So who is responsible for clamping in Ranelagh?


  • #6
    Max Power1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    Hahahahaha
    Delighted for the scum


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  • #7
    Marcusm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    Ranelagh clamping is provided courtesy of DSPS so hav they place a protective clamp on their own vehicle; a zero tolerance approach?


  • #8
    Mr Simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,332 ✭✭✭Mr Simpson


    Prank played by their co-workers? DSPS (same as the van) look after clamping in Ranelagh


  • #9
    mad m
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,016 ✭✭✭mad m


    Marcusm wrote: »
    Ranelagh clamping is provided courtesy of DSPS so hav they place a protective clamp on their own vehicle; a zero tolerance approach?

    But why the sticker on side window,plus on front wind screen if they clamped themselves.


  • #10
    slimjimmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,786 ✭✭✭slimjimmc


    mad m wrote: »
    But why the sticker on side window,plus on front wind screen if they clamped themselves.

    Authenticity?


  • #11
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    Either way I can't see the driver being too bothered. It's a mildly funny pic but hardly a story.


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  • #12
    CastingCouch
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭CastingCouch


    Why is there such a hatred of clampers? Yes it's ****ty but they're doing their job.

    You know what I do not to get clamped, I buy a permit/parking ticket or park in places where clampers don't clamp.


  • #13
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    CastingCouch wrote: »
    Why is there such a hatred of clampers? Yes it's ****ty but they're doing their job.

    You know what I do not to get clamped, I buy a permit/parking ticket or park in places where clampers don't clamp.
    Remember when you were a kid and it was cool to give out about your teacher?


  • #14
    CastingCouch
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭CastingCouch


    Anan1 wrote: »
    Remember when you were a kid and it was cool to give out about your teacher?

    Not really :P


  • #15
    JustAddWater
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,990 ✭✭✭JustAddWater


    CastingCouch wrote: »
    Why is there such a hatred of clampers? Yes it's ****ty but they're doing their job.

    You know what I do not to get clamped, I buy a permit/parking ticket or park in places where clampers don't clamp.

    Also it's impossible to clamp a high horse


  • #16
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    JustAddWater wrote: »
    Also it's impossible to clamp a high horse
    Is it really high, or are you just short? :)


  • #17
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,407 ✭✭✭Dartz


    CastingCouch wrote: »
    Why is there such a hatred of clampers? Yes it's ****ty but they're doing their job.

    So were the SS ;P


  • #18
    wandatowell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    Dartz wrote: »
    So were the SS ;P

    Just following orders eh? :D


  • #19
    CastingCouch
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭CastingCouch


    JustAddWater wrote: »
    Also it's impossible to clamp a high horse

    How many times have you been clamped? ;)


  • #20
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,412 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    I'm tempted to say it was lads at work having a laugh with their mates, but this would imply a level of prankish imagination. Clampers can't imagine, as their tiny little minds are fully occupied in keeping the knuckles of both hands dragging evenly, and in maintaining a steady flow of dribble that will last an entire shift. Also clampers don't have mates. This is because everybody they have ever met, and who will ever meet them, even if they only worked one day as a clamper, hates them. And rightfully so.

    P.S. I hope there's at least one clamper who has developed at least a rudimentary level of literacy and reads this post (although I'd imagine it would need extensive help), and could convey the sentiment to it's 'colleagues'. Perhaps using chunky crayons, cardboard, primitive gestures, and grunting.


  • #21
    Max Power1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    Anan1 wrote: »
    Remember when you were a kid and it was cool to give out about your teacher?

    Remember when you were a poster and it was fun to take the unpopular side, every time, just to provoke a reaction out of people, especially when clamping comes up.

    Memory in this case is a self replicating reality for anan1 of us


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  • #22
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,412 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    CastingCouch wrote: »
    Why is there such a hatred of clampers? Yes it's ****ty but they're doing their job.

    Job? I suppose...

    For a class of pr1ck without sufficient self respect to sign on.


  • #23
    CastingCouch
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭CastingCouch


    endacl wrote: »
    Job? I suppose...

    For a class of pr1ck without sufficient self respect to sign on.

    Yawn.

    How many times you been clamped?


  • #24
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,412 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    CastingCouch wrote: »
    Yawn.

    How many times you been clamped?

    Just the once by dcc. Paid. Five times by various cowboys. All cut.

    You?


  • #25
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    Max Power1 wrote: »
    Remember when you were a poster and it was fun to take the unpopular side, every time, just to provoke a reaction out of people, especially when clamping comes up.
    It's easier to attack the poster than to engage the issue, isn't it?


  • #26
    Mr. G
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 4,621 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr. G


    zg3409 wrote: »
    Dublin Clampers Clamped, but by who?

    attachment.php?attachmentid=261948&stc=1&d=1373456221

    From:
    https://twitter.com/cksolutions/status/354880365103550464/photo/1

    Hahahahahhh Love it!


  • #27
    CastingCouch
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭CastingCouch


    endacl wrote: »
    Just the once by dcc. Paid. Five times by various cowboys. All cut.

    You?

    Never been clamped.


  • #28
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,412 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    CastingCouch wrote: »
    Never been clamped.

    Fair play to ye. If you ever are, pm me. I'll have it off in a couple of minutes. No charge.

    ;)


  • #29
    CastingCouch
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭CastingCouch


    endacl wrote: »
    Fair play to ye. If you ever are, pm me. I'll have it off in a couple of minutes. No charge.

    ;)

    Haha I can take it off myself if I wanted. ;) I'll make sure not to get clamped first though. :P


  • #30
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,412 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    CastingCouch wrote: »
    Haha I can take it off myself if I wanted. ;) I'll make sure not to get clamped first though. :P
    Hey, it happens...

    In the case of all but one the cowboy clamps, I arrived within 5 minutes of the time on the ticket. In two cases I was over. In the case of two the others though, I'd actually come back to the car ahead of time. The last time I was caught, I was clamped while getting change to pay the ticket. In a notorious spot for that kind of carry on, not too far from Dundrum. Suits me. My car is extra secure for the couple of hours it was clamped, and two minutes after getting the grinder out of the boot on my return...

    The DCC clamp was the first one for me. A fair cop.

    :D


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  • #31
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Dartz wrote: »
    So were the SS ;P

    Your way off in you pursuit of godwining the thread early.


  • #32
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    Your way off in you pursuit of godwining the thread early.



    ^^^^^^

    dang - I had to google that - you learn something new everyday.

    If you look here , and the first para of Corollaries & Usage, last sentence - is that where we are now ?? :)

    sorry for the hijack - my personal lexicon just got a little thicker... :P

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • #33
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    galwaytt wrote: »
    - is that where we are now ?? :)
    wrote:
    Godwin's law does not claim to articulate a fallacy; it is instead framed as a memetic tool to reduce the incidence of inappropriate hyperbolic comparisons. "Although deliberately framed as if it were a law of nature or of mathematics, its purpose has always been rhetorical and pedagogical: I wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler or to Nazis to think a bit harder about the Holocaust", Godwin has written.
    Here's where we are now. :)


  • #34
    Lofty123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 314 ✭✭Lofty123


    endacl wrote: »
    I'm tempted to say it was lads at work having a laugh with their mates, but this would imply a level of prankish imagination. Clampers can't imagine, as their tiny little minds are fully occupied in keeping the knuckles of both hands dragging evenly, and in maintaining a steady flow of dribble that will last an entire shift. Also clampers don't have mates. This is because everybody they have ever met, and who will ever meet them, even if they only worked one day as a clamper, hates them. And rightfully so.

    P.S. I hope there's at least one clamper who has developed at least a rudimentary level of literacy and reads this post (although I'd imagine it would need extensive help), and could convey the sentiment to it's 'colleagues'. Perhaps using chunky crayons, cardboard, primitive gestures, and grunting.

    LOL, funniest post I've seen on Boards for a spell of time...


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