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  • #242
    UnknownSpecies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,183 ✭✭✭UnknownSpecies


    If you read the thread, the OP had no money and was going to the bank. I also doubt parking was as cheap as 50c :rolleyes: Anything to piss off these NCPS **** is a victory in my eyes anyway.


  • #243
    Gary ITR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,801 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


    Anan1 wrote: »
    Gary ITR wrote: »
    You really are a miserable sod sometimes. These clampers are bullys, I've seen first hand how aggressive they have been so me hiving up 40 minutes of my time to get one over was well worth it
    I'm just telling you how it is. OP saved 50c, and you lot spend your evening under a carvan. But hey, whatever floats your boat. ;)
    Getting one over a shower of bullys floats my boat :)


  • #244
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    Gary ITR wrote: »
    Getting one over a shower of bullys floats my boat :)
    But you didn't get one over on them. The OP got one over on you. For 50c..


  • #245
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,910 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Anan1 wrote: »
    How long did it take one clamper to put the clamp on? And how long did it take you lot to get there, remove the wheel, crawl under the car, disassemble the suspension to remove the clamp, put it all back together, go home, and get yourselves cleaned up afterwards? And you think you won?? All you did was save the OP the trouble of carrying a 50c coin to pay for parking in the first place. ;)

    Quite an alternative view there! Of course they won.

    Clamp company: - €90
    OP: + €90

    Not to mention the satisfaction of the outcome.


  • #246
    UnknownSpecies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,183 ✭✭✭UnknownSpecies


    Anan1 wrote: »
    But you didn't get one over on them. The OP got one over on you. For 50c..

    Whether or not they got one over on the NCPS; the NCPS didn't manage to get one over on the OP which is the main thing.


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  • #247
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Anan1 wrote: »
    Gary ITR wrote: »
    Getting one over a shower of bullys floats my boat :)
    But you didn't get one over on them. The OP got one over on you. For 50c..

    Not really Anan.... Clamper had his clamp removed, Lads had the pleasure of pissing off the clampers.


  • #248
    pred racer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    Gary ITR wrote: »
    You really are a miserable sod sometimes. These clampers are bullys, I've seen first hand how aggressive they have been so me hiving up 40 minutes of my time to get one over was well worth it

    +1 anytime anyone needs an hour (or several) of my time to put one over on these shysters.......count me in!


  • #249
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    mickdw wrote: »
    Quite an alternative view there! Of course they won.

    Clamp company: - €90
    OP: + €90

    Not to mention the satisfaction of the outcome.
    Dream on - here's how it really is:

    The clamp company are down the time it took to fit the clamp.

    The OP is up the cost of 20 mins parking.

    You lot are down your time and effort.


  • #250
    Crann na Beatha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,763 ✭✭✭✭Crann na Beatha


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  • #251
    kildare.17hmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭kildare.17hmr


    Anan1, to me this was a bit of crack and helpin out a young lad. It took 20 minutes to do the job but we were there for about an hour and a half talkin ****e and havin the crack. Not waisted time in my eyes. Like gary said they are bullies and some of the stories her prove that especially the one in this thread with the pregnant woman, thats just wrong!

    We did get one over on the clampers because they rang the guards and were smug telling me they were on the way but what happened? We all had a joke about it and i have the clamp in the boot and no one got arrested.

    Lucky we're not all as misserable as you but i suppose there is always one :)


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  • #252
    Squ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Squ


    kildare.17hmr wrote: »
    Anan1, to me this was a bit of crack and helpin out a young lad. It took 20 minutes to do the job but we were there for about an hour and a half talkin ****e and havin the crack. Not waisted time in my eyes. Like gary said they are bullies and some of the stories her prove that especially the one in this thread with the pregnant woman, thats just wrong!

    We did get one over on the clampers because they rang the guards and were smug telling me they were on the way but what happened? We all had a joke about it and i have the clamp in the boot and no one got arrested.

    Lucky we're not all as misserable as you but i suppose there is always one :)

    you were making a good point up to the 3rd paragraph..


  • #253
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,924 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Anan1 wrote: »
    Dream on - here's how it really is:

    The clamp company are down the time it took to fit the clamp.

    The OP is up the cost of 20 mins parking.

    You lot are down your time and effort.

    Dude Seriuosly?

    I will go and pay lads few quid each just for removing the clamp, and helping out op when he was in trouble.

    It was being nice and showing a huge finger to campers, not about wasted time and money.
    If it would make you feel better, then maybe Gary itr amd Kildare.17hmr can post their PayPal details? Wil drop a few quid just for being gentlemen. I am prety sure a lot of the lads would do same thing. You know, just to compensate for that lost time you on about...


  • #254
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    kildare.17hmr wrote: »
    Anan1, to me this was a bit of crack and helpin out a young lad. It took 20 minutes to do the job but we were there for about an hour and a half talkin ****e and havin the crack. Not waisted time in my eyes. Like gary said they are bullies and some of the stories her prove that especially the one in this thread with the pregnant woman, thats just wrong!

    We did get one over on the clampers because they rang the guards and were smug telling me they were on the way but what happened? We all had a joke about it and i have the clamp in the boot and no one got arrested.

    Lucky we're not all as misserable as you but i suppose there is always one :)
    Look, if you enjoyed it that's fair enough, but don't be kidding yourselves you got one over on the clampers. You'd have to keep the clamp for that. As things stand, the OP is the winner here.


  • #255
    pred racer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    Squ wrote: »
    you were making a good point up to the 3rd paragraph..

    I think the third paragraph was the best point of all!


  • #256
    kildare.17hmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭kildare.17hmr


    I stand by what o said!


  • #257
    kildare.17hmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭kildare.17hmr


    Anan1 wrote: »
    As things stand, the OP is the winner here.
    well at least we agree on something


  • #258
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    kildare.17hmr wrote: »
    well at least we agree on something
    Absolutely, but at your expense and not the clampers. ;)


  • #259
    UnknownSpecies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,183 ✭✭✭UnknownSpecies


    Anan1 wrote: »
    Absolutely, but at your expense and not the clampers. ;)

    The waste of the clamper's time is definitely an expense. Time is money and all that ;)


  • #260
    kildare.17hmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭kildare.17hmr


    Anan1 wrote: »
    kildare.17hmr wrote: »
    well at least we agree on something
    Absolutely, but at your expense and not the clampers. ;)
    Ether way better than sittin at home watchin tv! I understand what your saying but i dont agree because if you dont think they will feel hard done by you should think again


  • #261
    pred racer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    Anan1 wrote: »
    Look, if you enjoyed it that's fair enough, but don't be kidding yourselves you got one over on the clampers. You'd have to keep the clamp for that. As things stand, the OP is the winner here.

    Yes the op is the winner, helped by some new friends that were kind enough to give him a dig out. And as the clampers didnt get €90, had to pay the driver and all other associated costs, its OP 1 - clampers 0.


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  • #262
    SilverBell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 431 ✭✭SilverBell


    Anan1 wrote: »
    Look, if you enjoyed it that's fair enough, but don't be kidding yourselves you got one over on the clampers. You'd have to keep the clamp for that. As things stand, the OP is the winner here.

    I am slightly relieved that I was not the only one who thought like Anan1, but I didn't feel like posting my thoughts earlier cos of the "bring it on".

    Kudos to everyone involved. You each did a really nice thing, acted within the law etc. But in reality, it was a "one off".

    Is anyone really going to keep up this sort of momentum, night after night, night after night?

    Much as I dislike Clampers, I would rather pay and display, than have my suspension dismantled.

    Even if my car was clamped, I'd find it easier to ring up the clampers and unlock it, rather than work on the car in the street. I'm not agreeing with Clampers one bit, nor disagreeing with anything that was done here, just looking at it from the facts....just like Anan1......:cool:


  • #263
    UnknownSpecies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,183 ✭✭✭UnknownSpecies


    Well, you have clearly never been illegally clamped by the NCPS.


  • #264
    kildare.17hmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭kildare.17hmr


    Its not a once off, between the lads who came to help last night i think we have done it 7 times!


  • #265
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    kildare.17hmr wrote: »
    Ether way better than sittin at home watchin tv! I understand what your saying but i dont agree because if you dont think they will feel hard done by you should think again
    It just seems like an awful lot of wasted effort because the OP wasn't bothered having a couple of cents change for the meter. If you'd got someone out of a hole that wasn't caused by their own laziness/meanness then i'd have been first in line to cheer you on.


  • #266
    pred racer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    Anan1 wrote: »
    It just seems like an awful lot of wasted effort because the OP wasn't bothered having a couple of cents change for the meter. If you'd got someone out of a hole that wasn't caused by their own laziness/meanness then i'd have been first in line to cheer you on.

    You're just trolling now!


  • #267
    Grolschevik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,472 ✭✭✭Grolschevik


    You know what? I'm driving 23 years and have never been clamped, nor ticketed.

    Guess why...


  • #268
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    pred racer wrote: »
    You're just trolling now!
    Explain?


  • #269
    SilverBell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 431 ✭✭SilverBell


    kildare.17hmr wrote: »
    Its not a once off, between the lads who came to help last night i think we have done it 7 times!

    Well fair play for that. I'm being honest.
    I just don't see how someone could keep doing that time after time, unless it was their own or their mates vehicle.

    I'm not trying to be awkward with you guys, just thinking about the whole episode. Dont get me wrong, If it was my mate, I'd probably be out helping too...


  • #270
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,851 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Grolschevik wrote: »
    You know what? I'm driving 23 years and have never been clamped, nor ticketed.

    Guess why...

    You're a TD?

    :D


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  • #271
    pred racer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    Grolschevik wrote: »
    You know what? I'm driving 23 years and have never been clamped, nor ticketed.

    Guess why...

    Me too, for 25 years, doesnt mean I agree with what clamping companies do.
    It also doesnt mean i haven't been caught without change from time to time;)


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