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I haven’t ever been a victim of car clamping myself, and I hope I remain so.

However having read, and heard about so many cases lately, including some friends of mine, I have come up with the perfect answer-FIGHT BACK…

How…

Easily…

Get a pair of quality bolt cutters, and/or a cordless angle grinder and keep them in the boot of your car at all times. As well take some masking tape

Always read the small print, and watch where you park; surely demanding hundreds of pounds for release on the same day in cash, surely has to be dodgy!

What to do..

Return to your car casually and look around for cameras and people who look like they may be working for the clamping company. Dodge around the people craftily and hide until it is clear if required.

Sneak up behind any cameras and throw something over them to obscure their view, or push them away if you can reach somehow and they are hinged, and they are hinged. Don’t use something traceable, use a carrier bag, balloon or whatever you don’t mind losing.

Walk over to your car smartly and whip out the masking tape to obscure your car registration. Apply it over both number plates so they can’t be seen.

Quickly take out the grinder or bolt cutters, and cut off the chain or lock CAREFULLY! without damaging your car, or hopefully the clamp.

Leave the clamp behind neatly, and take the chain with you and your tools in the boot, and drive of smartly and promptly to the nearest safe and legal place to stop.

Remove the masking tape from your number plate, and dispose of the chain or lock somewhere legal, but getting rid of the evidence you have damaged their property.

Calmly drive home, and tidy up your tools, and make sure if your angle cutter is cordless to make sure you keep it charged up every week, and check that the grinding wheel is in good condition “just in case” . Test is out regularly, so you will never be caught out again !

Take a low profile, and avoid the area where you parked before, and hope you never hear from them.

If you really want to find our more, then please go here…

http://www.autoinfozone.com/remove_clamps/index.htm

This is a good one too…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/3485625.stm

Learn a lesson from it to be more careful in the future!

Always pay “normal” official parking fines promptly on public roads and be careful to park legally (Read the HIGHWAY CODE!)

If you are unlucky enough to get regular correspondence from them ignore it, and consider yourself not present at the time of the incident!

Hopefully because they are also dodgy they should go away eventually!

Another simple way that works in some cases is to deflate the tyre, jack the car up, and remove the clamp!

Then leave the clamp where you found it!

Just be sure you have a foot pump in the car or a spare wheel for driving home!

Disclaimer… ***this is for “fun”, and I do not endorse or agree with any illegal activity***

Have fun, and stay safe, always watch out for obscure signage about parking, and if in doubt-DON’T PARK THERE-take a bus, walk, cycle, park and ride, or use a recognised car parking provider, or park where the parking meters or road markings are clearly defined!

Always Park Legally

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