...how would you react?
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2565109.stm
Methinks a suitable nudge from a Landy would do the trick!
/Steve
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I'd invest in a wheelclamp and charge the owners £100 per day storage charge.
Terry
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I wouldn't have bothered telling the police and just got on and moved it.
Now that he has done this, I would call up a clamping/towing company tell them to erect a sign and then get them to tow it away to their compound for parking illegally on private property.
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Remind Plod of his powers under Removal and Disposal of Vehicles Regs 1986, Regulation 4:
Power to remove a vehicle which has been permitted to remain at rest on a road or on ANY LAND IN THE OPEN AIR in such a position or in such conditions or in such circumstances as to appear to a CONSTABLE to have been abandoned without lawful authority, then (subject to 'notices'(one to owner of Property) a CONSTABLE may remove or arrange for the removal of the vehicle, and, in the case of a vehicle which is on a road, he may remove it or arrange for its removal from that road to a place which is not on that or any other road, or may move it or arrange for its removal to another position on that or another road.
Where there is a way there are the means...
DVD
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Amongst other things this is yet another example of the stupidity of the Data Protection Act which is increasingly impinging on our lives and constantly flying in the face of common sense !
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Find a friend with a suitably powerful car and a very good clutch. Attach a tow rope.
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Stick a "Police Aware" sticker on it. It'll be either gone or stripped by the end of the day.
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Strip it yourself and sell it for bits.
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Borrow a fork lift, remove offending vehicle, extract own car from garage, replace offending car. Then, either borrow a banger to park right behind offending car or put some other very heavy, immovable object behind it so that it cannt be moved. ALternatively, wait until the next Gloucester home game (I think the incident is taking place near the rugby ground) and get some burly beered-up rugby fans to help 'gently' move it.
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you are completely entitled to move it, as long as you don't damage it.
And of course you should move it somewhere where it is a)in view and b) totally unmoveable.
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...and preferably sideways across the M5. Bet the police would be interested then!
:o)
Terry
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...and preferably sideways across the M5. Bet the police would be interested then! >>
I doubt it.
There are two cars parked at peculiar angle in Billet Lane Tottenham which have been there for a few days and no-one seems interested.
Despite the fact that one with its rear sticking out into the road has obviously been clouted by a passing vehicle!
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Get it onto the front page of the Telegraph, as, in fact, it is today!
Actually, reading some of the suggestions reminded me of a friend who parked overnight in Warwick, and came back to find his car gone. Rang the police, who, when quoted the registration number, said "Aahh..you've not been to the park then?" Turned out his car (MG Midget) had been carried down to the park and put on top of an upturned skip in the middle of the football pitch by a passing (and presumbably p*ssed up) rugby team.
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Seems from teletext this pm incident was due to cockup not forethought. Somebody has phoned to apologise. Her son had been given permission to park on a driveway but due to poor visibility had dropped his motor on the wrong drive!!!
Should think the fellow will at least get his taxi fares re-imbursed.
Happy Motoring Phil I
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I used to frequent a pub in Peterborough which had a driveway leading to the car park, the driveway being less than two cars wide and running between two buildings. The car park wasn't used much because it was easier to park on the road. However those of us who did use it commonly found a particular mini parked in the driveway when we came to leave and we had to call the owner from the pub to move it.
This happened several times so we decided that the owner needed a lesson in parking. A group of us managed to 'jump' the mini through a quarter of a turn and left it parked sideways, nicely sandwiched between the two walls. I don't know how the owner retrieved it but we never had the problem again!
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I feel the " take a suitably sized potato, ram it as far up the xhaust pipe as far as it will go having coated the exposed end with earth so it is dark and does not reflect light and push it in securely with a broom handle" treatment would be ideal.
Undetectable.
(can be done under cover of darkness so you are not caught)
Costs a fortune to sort it.
Ensures that no-one ever does that to you again.
(I did the Mini trick as a student..)
alternatively under cover of darkness let down all the tyres.
Of course I would NEVER EVER encourage anyone to do anything like that.
madf
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For information purposes only.
My daughter's garage was one of block that was around the corner to her house. The garage up-and-over door had been ripped off and replaced twice. Hence the lesson, expensively learned, that there was no point in replacing it yet again (she parked her car in front of her house where she could keept an eye on it).
One day a neighbour knocked and asked her if she knew that there was a car in her garage. She said 'no' but would check it out. Yup, there was a car in the garage all right. Problem was, it wasn't hers.
She contacted the police to have it removed. She was told that as the car according to registration number had not been reported stolen then there was nothing they could do.
She then spoke to the Council who said that there was nothing that they could do. The matter was then discussed with a council worker who happened to be in the vicinity. He said that if a car was in/on a public space and appeared to have been abandoned then the Council was obligated to have the vehicle towed away if it had been informed that the petrol cap had been removed and that children were striking matches and throwing them into the petrol tank. This action was deemed necessary as a public safety measure.
I believe car in question subsequently somehow rolled down a slight incline, came to rest on a public highway. The Council was then informed that the petrol cap was missing; the car was quite speedily removed.
Rita
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A few years back we saw a girl had broken down in her mini on an exit ramp of coventrys ring road (holyhead road if anybodys interested) and rather than drive round and glare which everybody else seemed to be doing, we stopped and helped to move the car. When we had finished moving it we were surprised to see that we had managed to wedge it face on between two lamp posts, with a couple of inches either side. Ooops.
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The car has now been removed. See
"Mystery car drives householder to despair "
www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-510752,00.html
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If you were really vindictive you could build a 1m high wall around the car......
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S.1(1) of the Criminal Damage Act 1971:
A person who without lawful excuse destroys or damages any property belonging to another intending to destroy or damage any such property or being reckless as to whether any such property would be destroyed or damaged shall be guilty of an offence.
Surely breaking the window, taking off the handbrake, and moving the car on to the road would count as the minimum required and would provide a lawful excuse.
In fact, there's a case similar to this: Chamberlain v Lindon [1998] in which a defendant who knocked down a neighbour's wall, honestly believing that his drive was to be blocked by it, had a lawful excuse. In fact, the court (High Court only though) held that honest belief was enough to give rise to a lawful excuse, although this subjective test seems to contradict some earlier case law.
Chances of a conviction for criminal damage, if the car were to be moved, are therefore close to nil.
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