'Superhero' takes on clampers

Re: 'Superhero' takes on clampers

-Love it!!!

 

wow.

he's no boondock saints... but still

 

we don't have clamps as much here in the states-- only the larger cities have them, and only if needed. I think they should be illegal. If a car is in a dangerous place, tow it, they can pay a hefty fee and be inconvenienced. if it's not in a dangerous place, but it's illegally parked, ticket the hell out of them. I'm talking $50 tickets, for repeat offenders. Des Moines isn't the greatest place for comparison, but our parking tickets were until very recently so low that it was cheaper to get a ticket every day than to pay for parking ramps. Plus, no walking to the parking ramps. (Here in Des Moines, we don't understand public transportation. It doesn't exist to us.) $5 for a parking violation is fine if you're a little over the white line, or you're a bit too far from the curb, or you're in a loading zone. But for someone that parks in front of a hydrant every day, to save themselves a walk to work, fines should double each time on a point system (meaning, after a certain time, your points would decrease and you'd get some slack).

pnw

 

this reminds me of the people I sometimes see downtown who go around putting change in expired meters...

the metermaids really hate that...

 

In central London, we get "SLAUGHTERED" by meters, and the cost of parking, in general...

It usually costs me around £40 per DAY just to park in the city - parking meters cost £5 per hour, and if you "thread" your meter (put coins in after the allotted time) you STILL get a parking ticket, so you have to constantly move your car every 2 hours - unless of course, you find an NCP or MasterPark Car Park - who still cost you your first-born...

And, after ALL of that, you STILL get hit with a £5 per DAY car congestion charge - as soon as you drive through the city boundaries, one of the THOUSANDS of cameras citywide - placed at strategic locations - read your number plate and log you down, waiting for payment to be made before 10pm (or else it's an £80 fine - £40 if you pay it early...).

And then there's the clampers - what a bunch of...

***(this bit is SERIOUSLY censored. I dunno - think Mr. Burgis, here...)****

When they're not clamping you, they're using your credit card details you used to remove the clamp that scratched your paintwork to buy TV's, and pay for holidays. One mob even hired a CAR for £900, and drove it to Scotland on my credit card. WHAT?!? (At least the bank reversed the charges - but the police were crap. I looked into the crime myself, and then presented the cops with the info - telling them if they went to the hire car company, they could pull the CCTV footage to ID these dickheads, and then get the licence plate of the car to get an APB put out on the car... Their reply was: "We don't work like that...". "Well - how DO you work, then? Or, in fact, do you work at ALL?" I don't think they appreciated my attitude, because nothing further was done - but I digress...)

Ahh - it's a driver's paradise in this country.

We need this guy. I saw him on TV last night - he reminds me of SuperDave. Grind away, dude!

 

-Gents

How safe is it for me to asssume that these 'Clamps' are essentially the same thing as the Denver Boot we have here in Chicago?

 

and we don't have some guy dressed up like SuperDave using it...