So I'm clamped.

Banjo String

Paid the parking meter, it was covered up until 1631

I'm not making excuses, I was late back to my car, had the two kids with me (both under 3)and through one thing an another was late back, plain and simple.

NCPS must make a fortune at this lark. €90 release fee, plus another if paying by card.


I'm sorely sorely tempted to get out my bolt cutters tbh.

Cut or pay AH?

No Pants

Glue, pay, make them cut.

keith16

Cut. Don't give those leeches a single red cent.

WilyCoyote

Did you not use a condom?

BNMC

Cut for Banjo String.

Beasty

WilyCoyote wrote: »

Did you not use a condom?

Hey banjo, this could be your lucky night

Lapin

Banjo String wrote: »

Paid the parking meter, it was covered up until 1631

Never thought I'd see a thread about clamping on AH. How novel !

Anyway, you deserved to be clamped if your car has been parked there for last 383 years.

No excuses for not moving it in that space of time.

What the hell were you at?

NegativeCreep

Cut. If even just to tell people you did it.

Paco Rodriguez

Did you not have a kids with me sticker?? how is the clamper supposed to know you have kids with you?

El Weirdo

Do a John Waters.

Sunnyisland

We with ya banjo ....

minidazzler

Cut it, it'll be months before they chase you for it anyway... then say you never saw a clamp. You got there and just drove off.

Banjo String

My mate arrived with bolt cutter, but they ain't removing this lock that's for sure. :mad:

Paid. Riles me to say it, but the kids are getting upset.

I let the system beat me.

beertons

Any of your friends a mechanic?

KTRIC

Were you just popping into the shop for a minute ?

anncoates

Ireland: where personal responsibility is something we only demand from others.

wandatowell

Go home and take a big dump for yourself.

BNMC

anncoates wrote: »

Ireland: where personal responsibility is something we only demand from others.

What you on about? What gives these wanker clampers the right to interfere with an other person's property.

There's no way I'd pay the release fee. I'd rather spend €100 on a consaw and cut it off.

RayM

It always seems a bit unfair that the penalty for being a few minutes late is the same as the penalty for not bothering to pay at all.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Banjo String wrote: »

My mate arrived with bolt cutter, but they ain't removing this lock that's for sure. :mad:

Paid. Riles me to say it, but the kids are getting upset.

I let the system beat me.

The system didn't beat you. The system caught you as it is supposed to do. You were illegally parked. Kids are no excuse. You were late back and old enough now to know the rules and the repercussions of breaking them.

anncoates

BNMC wrote: »

What you on about? What gives these wanker clampers the right.

The local authority I presume.

You accept the terms by parking there. You break the terms. You get clamped. Harsh but hardly persecution level.

Stavros Murphy

Banjo String wrote: »

Paid the parking meter, it was covered up until 1631

I'm not making excuses, I was late back to my car, had the two kids with me (both under 3)and through one thing an another was late back, plain and simple.

NCPS must make a fortune at this lark. €90 release fee, plus another if paying by card.


I'm sorely sorely tempted to get out my bolt cutters tbh.

Cut or pay AH?

Cut the fcuker K, jasus, do you even need to ask? It's an NCPS one - they're only pretendey clamps.

padd b1975

Should have left your hazards on.

donegal__road

cut the clamp off..

here is why I would do it....

Stavros Murphy

Banjo String wrote: »

My mate arrived with bolt cutter, but they ain't removing this lock that's for sure. :mad:

Paid. Riles me to say it, but the kids are getting upset.

I let the system beat me.

Damn, too late. Turn your man-card in monday morning. Suspended for six months, three months extra for you being a practical sort. Hang your head. I'm disappointed here tbh. More was expected.

humbert

Bugs the **** out of me the way some people think having kids means the rules shouldn't really apply to them.

I read that as a story of some who made a balls of driving and made a balls of parenting.

BNMC

humbert wrote: »

Bugs the **** out of me the way some people think having kids means the rules shouldn't really apply to them.

I read that as a story of some who made a balls of driving and made a balls of parenting.

Oh for God's sake. :rolleyes:

Yeah, lets have his kids taken away and him banned from driving for all eternity.

Get a grip.

Banjo String

humbert wrote: »

Bugs the **** out of me the way some people think having kids means the rules shouldn't really apply to them.

I read that as a story of some who made a balls of driving and made a balls of parenting.

Hang on a minute.

You my have missed in my op where I took full responsibility for being back late.

I didn't use the 'only a few minutes' excuse. Get a grip or get off the old high horse there humbert.

Banjo String

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

Damn, too late. Turn your man-card in monday morning. Suspended for six months, three months extra for you being a practical sort. Hang your head. I'm disappointed here tbh. More was expected.

Balls, I shouldve Rang you lol!!!

Ah look, the eldest was getting upset in the car. As I said, Riles me to pay that shower, but rest assured if I was kids free today, that clamp was headed home with me and no mistake.

oppenheimer1

While I wouldn't cut or damage the lock, I'd happily get a locksmith out to pick it rather than pay those leeches in NCPS

biko

Beat the clampers, buy a bicycle.

Stavros Murphy

Banjo String wrote: »

Balls, I shouldve Rang you lol!!!

Ah look, the eldest was getting upset in the car. As I said, Riles me to pay that shower, but rest assured if I was kids free today, that clamp was headed home with me and no mistake.

I was out cutting stuff anyway - gas torch in the van ffs. And sure I love shyte like that.

All seriousness tho, forget the fcukers, not worth getting het up about. Smile, Pay and give the inner two fingers. Not worth even remembering. Pond-scum need to go on ignore. I'd have cut it tho..

Banjo String

anncoates wrote: »

Ireland: where personal responsibility is something we only demand from others.

I didn't take personal responsibility

Where?

Guy:Incognito

BNMC wrote: »

What you on about? What gives these wanker clampers the right to interfere with an other person's property.
.

What gives people the right to use someone elses property without paying for what they use?

Is it ok to go to a shop and pay for a normal size mars bar and take a king size one?

Fr_Dougal

This thread could have been epic.

Oh well.

Red Pepper

humbert wrote: »

Bugs the **** out of me the way some people think having kids means the rules shouldn't really apply to them.

I read that as a story of some who made a balls of driving and made a balls of parenting.

Wow that's a high horse, care u don't fall off...

Angry_Mammarys

Meh get an angle grinder

Banjo String

Zachary Easy Lodger wrote: »

The system didn't beat you.

No the system beat me.

As previously discussed, I had two small children with me today, which was extremely lucky for the clamping company. Had they not have been with me, I would have gotten that clamp off. The trade I'm in, I'd have had no bother acquiring the tools needed to get it off that's for sure.

Zachary Easy Lodger wrote: »

The system caught you as it is supposed to do.

NCPS system is an ass. It's legalised theft. In saying that, I played by their rules by paying to park in the first place. I was back late. I've no excuse for that, nor am I trying to excuse it.

Zachary Easy Lodger wrote: »

You were illegally parked. Kids are no excuse. You were late back and old enough now to know the rules and the repercussions of breaking them.

Illegally parked me hole.

I put it to you that NCPS were the ones acting illegally today by placing equipment on my privately owned vehicle.

RobbingBandit

Would have did a Homer J Simpson myself, jackhammer ftw.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Banjo String wrote: »

No the system beat me.

As previously discussed, I had two small children with me today, which was extremely lucky for the clamping company. Had they not have been with me, I would have gotten that clamp off. The trade I'm in, I'd have had no bother acquiring the tools needed to get it off that's for sure.



NCPS system is an ass. It's legalised theft. In saying that, I played by their rules by paying to park in the first place. I was back late. I've no excuse for that, nor am I trying to excuse it.



Illegally parked me hole.

I put it to you that NCPS were the ones acting illegally today by placing equipment on my privately owned vehicle.

Oh for pity's sake!
First you advocate illegal action but talking about removing the clamp. Then you think parking without sufficient fee paid is not illegal parking? The clampers are acting within the law and on behalf of the law in clamping vehicles parked, like you, illegally.

You need a large dose of reality.

jackofalltrades

Posted the below in the motoring forum before.

OP - It would be well worth your while reading this.

http://www.lawsociety.ie/Documents/G.../March2011.pdf

Consumer contract
A further problem for private car parks is the operation of consumer contract law when a motorist enters a car park as a consumer to purchase parking. The motorist reads the signage stating that clamping is in force for vehicles without tickets,purchases a ticket and parks – but returns after the time indicated on the ticket has expired. In such a situation, the motorist is not a trespasser and has not consented to his vehicle being clamped, but rather
has entered into a consumer contract to park, which has expired. The car park in such a scenario is entitled to a quantum meruit claim for the additional cost of parking rather than the deterrent type fees normally charged to de-clamp.
A large deterrent fee – even if agreed to by the consumer through reading
the signage – is a penalty fee and unenforceable, unless some relationship can be shown with the damages suffered by the car park through the overstaying motorist. A penalty fee rather than liquidated damages is void under the common law and is regarded as an unfair term and, therefore, unenforceable under the European Communities (Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts) Regulations 1995 (SI 27 of 1995, schedule 3, article 1(e): “requiring any consumer who fails to fulfil his obligation to pay a disproportionately high sum in compensation”.

I'd look into taking them to the small claims court.

Disclaimer: I'm not a solicitor and the above is just my understanding of consumer law.

Banjo String

Zachary Easy Lodger wrote: »

Oh for pity's sake!
First you advocate illegal action but talking about removing the clamp. Then you think parking without sufficient fee paid is not illegal parking? The clampers are acting within the law and on behalf of the law in clamping vehicles parked, like you, illegally.

Read this.
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1961/en/act/pub/0024/print.html#sec113

113.—(1) A person shall not, without lawful authority or reasonable cause, interfere or attempt to interfere with the mechanism of a mechanically propelled vehicle while it is stationary in a public place, or get on or into or attempt to get on or into the vehicle while it is so stationary.

I'm not so sure NCPS have the lawful authority to clamp a vehicle, I am open to correction on this, but they seem reluctant to take anyone to court who has forcibly removed clamps.

Zachary Easy Lodger wrote: »

You need a large dose of reality.

Indeed.

Femme_Fatale

If the clamping crowd have acted illegally, call the guards/a solicitor. But I'm thinking they've already consulted with their solicitors too, and it's not illegal.

anncoates

Banjo String wrote: »

I didn't take personal responsibility

Where?

For getting back to the car in time. Fair enough it can happen to us all but suck it up.

wendell borton

KTRIC wrote: »

Were you just popping into the shop for a minute ?

Coitus interuptus offers no protection from the clamp.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

They certainly have lawful authority or reasonable cause,. Unless you'd like to take them to court and challenge it. Let us know how you get on!

I'm done as you seem set to try to take the high moral ground regardless of the facts.
Cheers!

Stavros Murphy

Zachary Easy Lodger wrote: »

They certainly have lawful authority or reasonable cause,. Unless you'd like to take them to court and challenge it. Let us know how you get on!

I'm done as you seem set to try to take the high moral ground regardless of the facts.
Cheers!

Oh, the ironing.

Arthur Beesley

My arse cheeks are clamped together. Does that count?

maguic24

Get a horse so it won't happen again.

Peregrine

BNMC wrote: »

What gives these wanker clampers the right to interfere with an other person's property.

The business or council whose property which he parked on.

Gummy Panda

Stinger!