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So I'm clamped.

  • 15-02-2014 06:00PM
    #1
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭


    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?


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Comments

  • #2
    No Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,346 ✭✭✭No Pants


    Glue, pay, make them cut.


  • #3
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


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


  • #4
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    Did you not use a condom?


  • #5
    BNMC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭BNMC


    Cut for Banjo String.


  • #6
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,543 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    WilyCoyote wrote: »
    Did you not use a condom?

    Hey banjo, this could be your lucky night ;)


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  • #7
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #8
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


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


  • #9
    Paco Rodriguez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 698 ✭✭✭Paco Rodriguez


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


  • #10
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Do a John Waters.


  • #11
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    We with ya banjo ....


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  • #12
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #13
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #14
    beertons
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,489 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    Any of your friends a mechanic?


  • #15
    KTRIC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,346 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    Were you just popping into the shop for a minute ?


  • #16
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


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


  • #17
    wandatowell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,433 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    Go home and take a big dump for yourself.


  • #18
    BNMC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭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.


  • #19
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭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.


  • #20
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #21
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #22
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭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? :D It's an NCPS one - they're only pretendey clamps.


  • #23
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Should have left your hazards on.


  • #24
    donegal__road
    Closed Accounts Posts: 953 ✭✭✭donegal__road


    cut the clamp off..

    here is why I would do it....


  • #25
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭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.


  • #26
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭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.


  • #27
    BNMC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭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.


  • #28
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #29
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #30
    oppenheimer1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭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


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  • #31
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Beat the clampers, buy a bicycle.


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