Last week a car was abandoned outside my ATC Squadron building. It's tax expired at the end of Jan 04, all the doors were open and the front nearside light was smashed. One of my cadets told me that it belonged to a local drug dealer (I've learned it's best not to ask how he knows that sort of thing!)
I checked on the Manchester City Council website as to who I should report it to, and I saw that since 1 July 2003 GMP have been responsible. They are supposed to investigate and remove the vehicles within 24 hours of reporting, and can do so within 30 minutes in urgent cases.
So I phoned the police and reported it. A while later a security guard at a nearby construction site told me he had reported it the night before as youths were driving around the field in it. I forgot to say that we are located at the edge of a large field with about 20 or more football and rugby pitches.
2 days later and the car was still there.
It was still there again on Monday, so I reported it again.
Last night I passed by 4 police officers who were manning 1 speed trap on the main dual carriage way from the end of the M56 into the city. As this road is on the opposite border to the field, I stopped and reported it to them. They were not interested.
So I called it in yet again, and this time expressed my concerns that we had since seen young kids playing in the car, and that we had concerns the vehicle could be pushed up against our compound, and if it was set on fire it would take our building with it, and that would be a dangerous fire for the fire brigade to deal with.
The car is still there today, over a week after first being reported, and now has more damage than just the headlight.
To twist the knife further, the police stables and kennels for South Manchester back onto our compound too, and mounted officers will have been passing the abandoned car on a daily basis.
Maybe I should call up and tell them that someone is speeding in the car, and that they could come and make money from them?
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Pdc
Have a look at
www.tinyurl.com/2mt93
and send Form 1 off to Council, followed a couple of days later with Form 4.
Not intended to deal with this problem as I suspect it is off road but may make them think????????
DVD
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Next time you call, tell them there is racial abuse scrawled on the car.
It will be gone before you put the 'phone down.
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or what appears to be an arm underneath...
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...or there might be a gun under the seat.
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Or its registered keeper has failed to declare SORN within 5 minutes of its tax expiring.
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I had this in that I notified the Council of what appeared to be an abandoned car.
Two weeks later it hadn't been collected and was missing varous bits.
Then it got set on fire and the fire brigade had to turn out.
So they then needed a crane to pick up the remains rather than a tow truck.
Would have been cheaper on the public purse to have responded first time!
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Then it got set on fire and the fire brigade had to turn out. Would have been cheaper on the public purse to have responded first time!
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But the fire brigade got some free on the job training, the council probably buy in vehicles for the firefighters to practice on and at least this way the fire engines get a nice outing too. :-)
Cockle
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And the local lads had some fun setting light to it?
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God, the Police have better things to do than catch thieves and protect property!
They have diversity to monitor and equality of oppurtunities to enforce. Why dod people still think the Police are there to do anything other than enforce a Police state?
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Should anyone think that I am wasting police time with this, I have a duty of care to my cadets. The less society-minded kids are playing in said car, trying to start it, pushing it around, on the road outside the gates to my unit.
One of our buildings is adjacent to the fence on the edge of the road. If the car is pushed there, and set alight, the building is in danger. We are affiliated to one of the armed forces. I will leave it to you to figure out the sort of kit we hold, and the danger that fire fighters would face should such kit be exposed to fire without any directional control.
I've contacted GMPHQ again today and was told that it was first reported 9 days ago, but that they couldn't trace the owner. www.manchester.gov.uk/opservices/rubbish/vehicles....m states they should then remove the vehicle.
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Come on Pdc.........The Media......always after a danger story and a go at the authorities.
DVD
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Have had to calm down since getting my commission DVD.
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I have to agree it is very frustrating and time consuming but I would persevere.
I raised in a previous thread about the way these abandoned or stolen cars progress to smoking lumps of metal in a very short space of time so why don't police or local authority remove them quickly. They can remove your car within seconds if parked on a double yellow. The answer is that it costs them money instead of raising revenue.
The fact that the cost of turning out the fire brigade costs far more than a prompt removal does not enter their pea like brains.
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I have recently seen two abandoned cars around the town. Both remained untouched for at least two weeks, despite being left on yellow lines.
Eventually, 'Police Aware' stickers were put on them. Within 24hrs, both had lost all wheels, had windows smashed etc......
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Essex no longer put "Police Aware" notices on for that very reason.
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Erm, they did in my part of Essex..... (abt 2 months ago)
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