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		International car booting champions show their expertise by clamping a car during a U-turn (mirror.co.uk)		47
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Limp_Bisquick		2010-05-27 11:13:34 AM

What does a U boat commander have to do with a car making a turn?

StupidPopMediaReference		2010-05-27 11:13:36 AM

I've heard of speed traps but parking traps? WTF?

TheCableGuy		2010-05-27 11:15:29 AM

haha that's about as awesome as the article is short.

Walker		2010-05-27 11:17:24 AM

StupidPopMediaReference: I've heard of speed traps but parking traps? WTF?

Yeah, it's a big thing in the UK. There are whole websites devoted to it. "Clampers" are right up there with pedophiles as some of the most hated people in the UK.

StupidPopMediaReference		2010-05-27 11:18:23 AM

Walker: StupidPopMediaReference: I've heard of speed traps but parking traps? WTF?

Yeah, it's a big thing in the UK. There are whole websites devoted to it. "Clampers" are right up there with pedophiles as some of the most hated people in the UK.

Nut not nearly as high up as the French, I assume.

jmadisonbiii		2010-05-27 11:20:15 AM

Where's Angle Grinder Man when you need him?

api.ning.com

geniusiknowit		2010-05-27 11:20:21 AM

DAS BOOOOOOOT!!!
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poot_rootbeer		2010-05-27 11:23:20 AM

clampers pounced after a lorry blocked him in on a garage forecourt.

What?

Speak English!

bunner		2010-05-27 11:24:02 AM

Legalised theft makes for lousy laws.

TheGreatGazoo		2010-05-27 11:25:24 AM

I know one guy who picked the lock on a boot, threw the lock away, and then when he'd go downtown he'd put the boot on (with his own lock) so he wouldn't get any tickets.

TsukasaK		2010-05-27 11:26:08 AM

Craptastic		2010-05-27 11:26:38 AM

Booted while the car was moving?

I call shenanigans.

Bunnyhat		2010-05-27 11:27:13 AM

The Angry Hand of God		2010-05-27 11:27:24 AM

TheGreatGazoo: I know one guy who picked the lock on a boot, threw the lock away, and then when he'd go downtown he'd put the boot on (with his own lock) so he wouldn't get any tickets.

That sounds like quite a bit of work.

Since parking is such a nightmare in Philadelphia, I used to keep a parking ticket in my glove box and leave it on my windshield if I thought that I might be ticketed.

Satanic_Hamster		2010-05-27 11:28:16 AM

jmadisonbiii: Where's Angle Grinder Man when you need him?

That's a cut-off/demo saw, not an angle grinder.

THIS is an angle grinder:
www.ultimatehandyman.co.uk

RedfordRenegade		2010-05-27 11:28:27 AM

I'm having a hard time reading this foreign language. Is it a dutch dialect or something?

bunner		2010-05-27 11:29:17 AM

Craptastic: Booted while the car was moving?

I call shenanigans.

He was stopped waiting for a truck to move.

trappedspirit		2010-05-27 11:29:39 AM

Craptastic: Booted while the car was moving?

I call shenanigans.

Come on. You don't believe the teenage driver?

MongtheMerciless		2010-05-27 11:30:02 AM

poot_rootbeer: clampers pounced after a lorry blocked him in on a garage forecourt.

What?

Speak Englishiathe guy pulled into a garage/filling station to turn around, got blocked in by a articulated lorry/rig/semi and was clamped while he waited for the obstruction to clear.

What's so hard to understand?

GoodOmens		2010-05-27 11:31:46 AM

The Angry Hand of God: TheGreatGazoo: I know one guy who picked the lock on a boot, threw the lock away, and then when he'd go downtown he'd put the boot on (with his own lock) so he wouldn't get any tickets.

That sounds like quite a bit of work.

Since parking is such a nightmare in Philadelphia, I used to keep a parking ticket in my glove box and leave it on my windshield if I thought that I might be ticketed.

Heh, my friend used to do that until he came back to his car and noticed 2 tickets. His old one and a brand new one...

Of course it was campus police though...

meat0918		2010-05-27 11:32:22 AM

Anyone else misread that as International car bombing champions?

Biff Spiffy		2010-05-27 11:33:21 AM

He needs to start a Facebook group to really make them pay.

URAPNIS		2010-05-27 11:38:22 AM

Teenagers are not to be trusted.

StupidPopMediaReference		2010-05-27 11:38:28 AM

Biff Spiffy: He needs to start a Facebook group to really make them pay.

Maybe he can get a letter writing campaign going as well! Or start a committee! I know! He can appeal to their better nature... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Sorry, couldn't finish that one with a straight face.

The Angry Hand of God		2010-05-27 11:43:32 AM

meat0918: Anyone else misread that as International car bombing champions?

You just reminded me of how awesome this game was. There was a car bomb mini-game that always cracked me up.
content.answers.com

boobsrgood		2010-05-27 11:45:33 AM

What farking language was that crap in?

DistendedPendulusFrenulum		2010-05-27 11:50:23 AM

I had a truck so ugly, I stopped at the 7-11 for a donut, came outside and it had a tag-n-tow sticker on it

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Pud		2010-05-27 11:57:44 AM

merzbow		2010-05-27 12:03:56 PM

Approves.

jscart		2010-05-27 12:27:14 PM

merzbow: Approves.

Garfield is the quickest booter in Philly

DarkPERL		2010-05-27 12:28:49 PM

Has anyone mentioned that the author needed to write in English?

Jareth Cutestory		2010-05-27 12:38:13 PM

Speak English to me, Tony. I thought this country spawned the farking language, and so far nobody seems to speak it.

what the cat dragged in		2010-05-27 12:53:08 PM

What a clamper may look like.

www.goldrushcam.com

joness0154		2010-05-27 12:55:13 PM

It's a good thing most guns are banned in the UK.

If I were involved in a situation like this I'd probably be driven insane enough to use it.

FeatheredSun		2010-05-27 12:55:27 PM

jmadisonbiii: Where's Angle Grinder Man when you need him?

You're so awesome!

(Came for this)

Eyjafjallajokull		2010-05-27 12:59:48 PM

The Angry Hand of God: TheGreatGazoo: I know one guy who picked the lock on a boot, threw the lock away, and then when he'd go downtown he'd put the boot on (with his own lock) so he wouldn't get any tickets.

That sounds like quite a bit of work.

Since parking is such a nightmare in Philadelphia, I used to keep a parking ticket in my glove box and leave it on my windshield if I thought that I might be ticketed.

I've seen that show Parking Wars, and they don't seem to care if you already have a ticket. If you're there long enough they'll just give you another one.

Barakku		2010-05-27 01:17:21 PM

jmadisonbiii: Where's Angle Grinder Man when you need him?

Yeah, but it would be so messy, I mean your shoes would be covered in blo--oh, you mean for the boot.

therealpope		2010-05-27 01:21:39 PM

There are more advertisements per square inch of that web page than there was actual news.

Paul Baumer		2010-05-27 01:37:09 PM

I really can't believe more of these guys aren't killed/seriously wounded while on the job. Regardless of their nefarious plots, they just really seem to bring out the venom in people (myself included, in all honesty).

dflores.1		2010-05-27 02:09:05 PM

MongtheMerciless: poot_rootbeer: clampers pounced after a lorry blocked him in on a garage forecourt.

What?

Speak Englishiathe guy pulled into a garage/filling station to turn around, got blocked in by a articulated lorry/rig/semi and was clamped while he waited for the obstruction to clear.

What's so hard to understand?

3.bp.blogspot.com

Hot!

Benjimin_Dover		2010-05-27 02:14:53 PM

Pud: TheGreatGazoo: I know one guy who picked the lock on a boot, threw the lock away, and then when he'd go downtown he'd put the boot on (with his own lock) so he wouldn't get any tickets.

Clever idea. I might just buy one so I can do the same thing.

Link (new window)

What you need is 4 of them to PREVENT the booters from getting a boot on any tire. Some company should come out with an anti-boot device.

Honest Bender		2010-05-27 03:09:02 PM

Benjimin_Dover: What you need is 4 of them to PREVENT the booters from getting a boot on any tire. Some company should come out with an anti-boot device.

i47.tinypic.com

Retractable Armor.

you have pee hands		2010-05-27 03:09:56 PM

Eyjafjallajokull:
I've seen that show Parking Wars, and they don't seem to care if you already have a ticket. If you're there long enough they'll just give you another one.

They're ruthless. They're also literally the only Philadelphia department that does what it's charged to do effectively. Of course, since it's Philadelphia, instead of putting the money towards the budget or the school system they created a bunch of $80,000/yr do nothing Parking Authority 'management' positions.

jigger		2010-05-27 04:43:01 PM

At the bottom of the page:

Cocaine addict left with 27 day erection after massive coke binges

/it has the opposite effect on me
//not a fan

Inibrius		2010-05-27 04:51:01 PM

so if this is to be believed....

...did he not call the bobbies to complain about these rapscallions and their dastardly ways?

LiberalZombie		2010-05-27 05:55:45 PM

bunner: Craptastic: Booted while the car was moving?

I call shenanigans.

He was stopped waiting for a truck to move.

It was one of those U-turns where you have to get out of your car and walk away from it for 5 or 10 minutes.

/better than a 3-point U-turn

Hugo Zorilla		2010-05-27 11:39:20 PM

jigger: At the bottom of the page:

Cocaine addict left with 27 day erection after massive coke binges

/it has the opposite effect on me
//not a fan

Chuck Negron approves.

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