Airside daylight robbery

The daylight robbery is clearly signposted all over the car park bizarrely enough.

The irony though is that you could park there before 6pm taking a space from a potential customer and not be a patron of their shops and not be clamped but you will be clamped when their shops are closed.

The clampers at Circle K / McDonalds @ Dublin Airport do it by watching people. If you park at Circle K and walk towards McDonalds, you get clamped and vice versa. It's a bit labour intensive but it's not impossible.

Could you not just go to McD's to get something of eurosaver, then you are a paying customer of one of the businesses.

Its a bit **** greedy to be fair, if a car park has no barriers is completely open to then public doesn't require payment at anytime and has plenty of space you should be able to park there.

You're not honestly trying to make a comparison between someone's driveway where the owner is the only one who parks there and a public carpark which is free to park in for anyone at most times of day but has a few small signs saying that outside of certain hours they will clamp you.

If your car was broken into or there was shots fired at your car the eagle eyed clamper would be nowwhere to be seen.

Proper crime is largely ignored whilst micky mouse motoring offences by tax payers are pursued like your Irelands top criminal!

Of course you are right there is no valid comparison to a private driveway.

It's a heist but a legal one.

The only helpful advice apart from carrying an angle grinder is if you see any signs in a carpark study them carefully.

Thanks for the advice AJR have a nice weekend 🙂

I’d guess that availability of cctv would be a big factor.

That time in airside there would be over 100 free spaces.

just a revenue generator.

6 vehicles in a 24 hour period is 750 in revenue.

5250 revenue over a week.

273,300 annual revenue for a business that I’d imagine is relatively low on overheads.

That's a ridiculous comparison.

The only way it could even get close to being relevant would be (a) If you and many strangers were permitted access to your friend's house to stomp around all day long with your shoes on up until 6pm and (b) your friend left his front door open as normal after 6pm and didn't inform anyone entering his house of the rule change put put up little notes around the house instead.

The first thought of any right thinking person would be to tell the friend to close the fcuking front door if he didn't want anyone parading around his house after 6pm.

There’s a sign at the entrance to the car park that starts with the words: “This car park is only for shopping in the shops.”

The second line says: “If you are parked here and seen leaving the car park, you will be clamped “.

The last line: “This car park closes at 6:30 … no parking after this time “.

Is there something ambiguous about those sentences? How is that like leaving little notes around the place?

I agree that it’s odd to leave a car park open and not allow parking in it but it’s their property, the rules are clearly printed at the entrance. But if the shops are closed and the car park is only for the shops, what difference does it make?

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There are signs at the entrance but I've never noticed any elsewhere in the car park.

The signs at the entrance are basically unreadable as there is far too much writing to read on just passing and you would be beeped to **** if you stopped to read it. Most would probably make the reasonable assumption if there is clamping it applies outside the opening hours.

I amazed anyone is on the side of the car park here.

If they want to charge for parking fair enough, if they want to impose certain hours on the car park put a barrier in, but the fact you could be shopping and just walk across the road to get a coffee and be clamped is crazy.