Clamp notice - no clamp :/

cfleming89

My girlfriend arrived home to her street tonight and a clamp notice was on her car for not displaying a parking permit-but there was no clamp.

Anyone know what the craic is with this??!

hardCopy

Say a prayer of thanks to the clamp fairy

Bog Standard User

read the clamp notice... is the reg number on the ticket the same as what is on the car? if not someone else took the clamp off their car and stuck the notice on the nearest car

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

:eek: Imagine had there be neither a clamp nor a notice.

Falcon L

That'll be Clamp-man. He follows clampers and removes the offending article. He wears blue lycra with a red cape. Kaks outside his tights. It's rumoured he can leap tall buildings in a single bound.

Bog Standard User

Falcon L wrote: »

That'll be Clamp-man. He follows clampers and removes the offending article. He wears blue lycra with a red cape. Kaks outside his tights. It's rumoured he can leap tall buildings in a single bound.

i heard he throws wheels at traffic wardens

Roquentin

Falcon L wrote: »

That'll be Clamp-man. He follows clampers and removes the offending article. He wears blue lycra with a red cape. Kaks outside his tights. It's rumoured he can leap tall buildings in a single bound.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Angle-Grinder-Man/196442500494

Falcon L

Roquentin wrote: »

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Angle-Grinder-Man/196442500494

Well fcuk me!

pfactor

cfleming89 wrote: »

My girlfriend arrived home to her street tonight and a clamp notice was on her car for not displaying a parking permit-but there was no clamp.

Anyone know what the craic is with this??!

Hi cfleming89,
Something similiar happened to me. My car was clamped yesterday outside my house along with some other cars in the area including the neighbours car. Later on that evening i heard noise outside the door so i looked out and saw these guys removing the clamp! I checked the other cars and their clamps were gone too. Are you in the dublin 8 area? Did you contact dcc? They say i owe them €580 for the clamp!!!

Why would you contact them?

Roquentin

it isnt a scam by any chance. they say you were clamped and then you pay up.

stimpson

Roquentin wrote: »

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Angle-Grinder-Man/196442500494

Nick Cave has really let himself go.

punisher5112

Wish there was a gatso van man.

The man who saves you from the flash 4 cash man.

salmocab

pfactor wrote: »

Hi cfleming89,
Something similiar happened to me. My car was clamped yesterday outside my house along with some other cars in the area including the neighbours car. Later on that evening i heard noise outside the door so i looked out and saw these guys removing the clamp! I checked the other cars and their clamps were gone too. Are you in the dublin 8 area? Did you contact dcc? They say i owe them €580 for the clamp!!!

Brilliant, I presume you told them what they could do for it. Maybe someone has got a hold of their keys and is going around doing a robin hood.

cfleming89

pfactor wrote: »

Hi cfleming89,
Something similiar happened to me. My car was clamped yesterday outside my house along with some other cars in the area including the neighbours car. Later on that evening i heard noise outside the door so i looked out and saw these guys removing the clamp! I checked the other cars and their clamps were gone too. Are you in the dublin 8 area? Did you contact dcc? They say i owe them €580 for the clamp!!!

YES!!

Rang DCC to pay the clamp fine, he told me it would be 580. I said no. He said he'd take the fine payment off me but the car would still be towed if it was clamped again.

i.e. towed if I didn't pay, and towed if I did.

I've filed a garda report just to cover myself from that point of view but there's no f$%^ing hope in hell that i'm paying that amount of money!

cfleming89

bluewolf wrote: »

Why would you contact them?

if on the off chance you're caught again then you're car is impounded!

Markcheese

punisher5112 wrote: »

Wish there was a gatso van man.

The man who saves you from the flash 4 cash man.

There is - he's called mr brake - all you do is put your foot on mr brake and you'll never be bothered by speed cameras again - now all I need to do is follow my own smug advice !! :-)

Markcheese

Ok , you park your car,(legally or illegally )someone comes along and clamps it , someone else comes and unclamps it - not your issue - you have no responsibilty for or duty of care to the clamp - now if it can be proved (in court ) that you damaged the clamp or removed the clamp to deny the owner use, then there's trouble -
That's not to say that you may not still owe Dcc the release fee ,if they have proof that you were parked illegally - bit like a parking fine -

cfleming89

Markcheese wrote: »

Ok , you park your car,(legally or illegally )someone comes along and clamps it , someone else comes and unclamps it - not your issue - you have no responsibilty for or duty of care to the clamp - now if it can be proved (in court ) that you damaged the clamp or removed the clamp to deny the owner use, then there's trouble -
That's not to say that you may not still owe Dcc the release fee ,if they have proof that you were parked illegally - bit like a parking fine -

Yip, no issue paying the clamp fine of 80 euro as ridiculous as it may be. The goon on the phone told me though even if I did pay it they'd still try and hold me responsible for the clamp! What a clown!

Markcheese

cfleming89 wrote: »

Yip, no issue paying the clamp fine of 80 euro as ridiculous as it may be. The goon on the phone told me though even if I did pay it they'd still try and hold me responsible for the clamp! What a clown!

They can try - but without evidence you can tell them to jump -

endacl

Any chance it was just somebody having a laugh? I came back to a clamp notice a couple of years ago. Initially got a bit of a start, but saw almost straight away that there was no clamp attached. Somebody had taken the notice from another car and stuck it on mine.

Little amuses the simple, I suppose...

salmocab

cfleming89 wrote: »

Yip, no issue paying the clamp fine of 80 euro as ridiculous as it may be. The goon on the phone told me though even if I did pay it they'd still try and hold me responsible for the clamp! What a clown!

A bloke on a site I was working on a few months ago was clamped 3 times in about 8 or 9 days by the dublin clampers and just cut them off no sign of his van being towed the second or third time.

Bruthal

Markcheese wrote: »

There is - he's called mr brake - all you do is put your foot on mr brake

Also handy if you see mist or fog

Roquentin

Markcheese wrote: »

There is - he's called mr brake - all you do is put your foot on mr brake and you'll never be bothered by speed cameras again - now all I need to do is follow my own smug advice !! :-)

http://www.brakerepairlasvegas.biz/

howyegettinon1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGQMq3hNv-g

The other fella

Tell them to **** themselves. /thread.