The moment furious drivers turned the tables on wheel clampers by trapping them in a car park

thisislondon | Daily Mail ^ | 2/19/08

[biff]

An enterprising local college student here was “thinking on his feet” when he came out of class only to discover his car was clamped due to expired parking permit.

He proceded to jack up the car, change a typically balding tire with the spare(probably balding also) and went about his way. Leaving the college cops with and enclamped bald tire and no car. Even more humiliating was he took a cell phone picture of the clamped tire lying in the parking lot and sent the pic via email to the school newspaper that published it in the next issue.

[Starwolf]

He proceded to jack up the car, change a typically balding tire with the spare(probably balding also) and went about his way.

Current car boots are designed not to allow that theses days.

I do know of one case where the booted car purportedly was moved via by owners father's towing service to another location and the boot removed. The city attempted to charge them for the cost of the boot and other things but there was no evidence who had removed the boot. The car was sold out of state and no charges ever paid.

[bubbacluck]

I was thinking it was Colonel Klink, you know, Werner Clamper.

[ASOC]

Not too sure about Jolly Olde England -

But Estate = welfare housing? Yes?

[magslinger]

Been in England lately?

[clamper1797]

The clampers themselves were in no way restrained

We never are ....

[magslinger]

LOL

[MEGoody]

The clampers themselves were in no way restrained, they just could not get their truck/van out. due to cars improperly parked on private property.

I guess that depends on whether the Brit law covers if an individual feels intimidated enough to believe they are not going to be allowed to leave. (Not sure the "clampers" felt intimidated, but I doubt they would have unclamped the cars if they didn't.)

It does appear at the very least they were guilty of parking violations. ;)

[Starwolf]

I wonder if private parking rules can be enforced by the government?

As an imprsionable young man I watched a cop attempt to cite someone for an traffic inccident that occured on private property. I saw the lawyer, who was the injured party and not getting the ticket warn him off and it stuck. Not sure how that would work today.

[Kevmo]

beat me to it

[MEGoody]

I wonder if private parking rules can be enforced by the government?

Probably not, but perhaps the owner of the lot can impound their cars for disobeying the parking rules and preventing the 'clampers' from driving away from the premises. I'm not familiar with how things work in Britain, so who knows.