A new superhero for the London driver

[slip2rock]

If i get clamped I'll be calling this guy



Angle Grinder Man

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

What a freak.
Some people have too much time and not enough brains.

May death bite him in the ass.

 

[Spock]

what a wanker

 

[milefile]

I got clamped (or "booted", as they call it here). The fines were more than the car was worth so I took the tags off and waved goodbye to my 1980 Datsun B210

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Originally posted by milefile
I got clamped (or "booted", as they call it here). The fines were more than the car was worth so I took the tags off and waved goodbye to my 1980 Datsun B210

With the decline in scrap value, plus increase in breakers charges, more and more cars are getting dumped in the UK. After a couple of weeks or so, someone figures out that the car has been dumped, and it gets reported to the Police who process it and authorise it for uplift.

The thing is, they put big "POLICE AWARE" stickers on it. These have become vernacular for "DISENFRANCHISED TEENAGERS: PLEASE DESTROY ME", because you'll find that all the windows are smashed and bits have been stolen out of it within 24hrs of the Police Aware sticker.

 

[vat_man]

At least he's honest and admits it's about the costume.

 

[milefile]

Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
With the decline in scrap value, plus increase in breakers charges, more and more cars are getting dumped in the UK. After a couple of weeks or so, someone figures out that the car has been dumped, and it gets reported to the Police who process it and authorise it for uplift.

The thing is, they put big "POLICE AWARE" stickers on it. These have become vernacular for "DISENFRANCHISED TEENAGERS: PLEASE DESTROY ME", because you'll find that all the windows are smashed and bits have been stolen out of it within 24hrs of the Police Aware sticker.

In Chicago, where it happened to me, I think you only have a few days to pay up or the car is impounded. Then you have to pay the delinquent fines and storage fees.

I was a full time student living in a one room apartment when it happened to me. I had no car at all for four years after that. I thought it was the end of the world, literally. But in a city like Chicago, and many others, you can get by quite nicely without a one. Plus I was in the best shape of my life.

 

[xAkirax2004]

Crazy but ambitious.


Help!, Help! Angle grinder man! save me from this parking boot!