Clamper? When the fark are these Brit's going to learn to speak english?

safe to assume clampers is the Brit equivalent to the Cdn boot?

Let's get this outof the way...

Hah-hah...

Serves 'em right, those bloody bobbies.

Oh, excellant. I always wanted to steal a clamp (boot) and put it on a meter maid's truck. Instead of using a padlock I would weld it on. I never did that, though, mostly because I never ran across a boot.

Ya but if that was a normal person chasing shoplifters the cops would have said they were doing their jobs and do nothing about it.

Why is it that every time I see "This is Bristol" I think of Sir Robin of Camelot, who very nearly fought the vicious Chicken of Bristol?

And I bet the rentacops were ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED to boot a police car. Worth the harsh words afterwards, and they will probably drink free for months down at the local.

*raises glass*

nevermind the bollocks! HAHAHAHAHA

Carolyn - good one.

Vdrog - do you mean the Denver boot, where it originated?

vdrog, they call the Denver boot, a Canadian boot in Canada? Or is your boot different from the USAian one?

CarolynLibrarian, amen to that!

Admins, where is the Amusing tag? :)

And, since someone will eventually:

The Denver Boot

A friend of mine made a really good fake boot and put it on his own car to avoid getting tickets.

Maybe he was the culprit?

Dang it, someone beat me to the obligatory Futurama reference. You suck, FoamingPipeSnake. (just kidding; you don't suck. Great post!)

Didn't know the real name was a Denver boot, just where I live, (in Cda) its only referred to as "the boot" Must be the same. Cdns dont' have much originality.

HahAHHAhahAAHHA!!!!!!

Homer Simpson would have just driven away. I don't see what the biatching is about ...

The rozzers should have just clamped the clampers with their speed-cuffs. (The new cuffs chafe, by the way.) (I know this for professional reasons...)(Honest.)

Hehehe. Reminds me of the time a local (college) cop parked in a loading dock and I was unloading things. He told me I had to move my rig because he couldn't get out, I pointed to the sign stating "Unloading Zone Only, All Others Will Be Towed"

Needless to say, we went rounds.

HAHA!

farking pigs!

We had someone at a Georgia Tech building come in and roll out some computers in a recycling trash bin. The GT police came to investigate, and while they were taking down notes and talking with people, they got a call that they had to move their cars or be towed because they had parked in an individual's 'private' permit area. How asinine can you get? The cop was even surprised, but then went to move his car.

Project Lamer I request the full disclosure of what sounds like a great example of cop stupidity for the furtherment of this thread. Spare no details please.

I've only seen boots installed when someone has $10,000 in unpaid parking tickets. Why in the heck do you boot a car when it's in your way? It's gotta be hard to tow a car with one on.

Is it just me, or is clamping a vehicle a rather stupid way of dealing with a vehicle obstructing the entrance to a parking lot? If someone is blocking the way, clamping them only ensures that they will do so longer than they had originally planned to.

Problem: Car is blocking traffic
Solution: Put a clamp on it so it can't move

Any Questions?

Shagman420 - In the town I live in, you can be booted if you have 5 or more unpaid parking tickets. Parking tickets are $15, so they can boot you with as little as $75 owed. (Though, as soon as they boot you, you add on $50 the first day and $10 a day until you pay up.) I'd guess you'd have to rack up considerably more than that before you'd rise to the top of the booting priority list.

I've seen the british clampers on those "worst drivers" TV programs. The clamps are applied to illegally parked cars by freakishly aggressive private security droids. In some cases they lie in wait and can have a car clamped in 30 seconds while the driver runs off for a minute. They clamped a hearse on hidden camera. It's hard to decide who to dislike more - the cops or the clampers?

"It's hard to decide who to dislike more - the cops or the clampers?",

I'm not sure about Jed or Granny, but I'd hit Ellie May Clamper any day of the week.

ScottMpls
...Flushing Meadows...
funniest.episode.evar

But seriously, it's time to get it over with and invoke Goodwin's Law

WTF? This article would make a hell of a lot more sense if I knew what "Clamped" meant.

If I were to get a boot on my car, or clamped, or whatever they call it in England, would I be within my rights to break the padlock off and just remove it and toss it in the garbage? Has this ever been done?

Boots worst enemy.

Day_old_dutchie

So what you're saying is that most Rent-A-Cops are no better than Nazis?

....god that's beautiful, score one for the rent-a-pigs, the Washington Senetors of the pig world....pigs...

SaintAnky
Whatever you do, DONT try to take it off with a blowtorch.
Some guy tried that here and ended up in the hospital when the wheel got so hot the tire exploded.

SpinStopper

A "boot" or "clamp" usually has an obvious sticker on it that details the penalties for unauthorized removal

Remove boot with bolt cutters or whatever.

Toss it in forest.

If rent-a-cops come looking for you, claim ignorance, and they must have not put the thing on correctly and someone stole it. What are they going to do, sue you? They'd lose without a witness. Just make sure to kill any witnesses.

" Is This the Car Clamp Club "?




/ AbFab

i think rent-a-cops are worse than real cops with the boots; my campus security throws them on after 3 tickets.

crybabies.

I don't know about tit-headed bobbies in the U.K., but in the U.S., the po-lice cannot break the law in order to enforce the law.

Generally the police are not the clampers in the UK. Clamping units are run by local councils or, worse, contracted out by local councils. They are worst in central London. A Westminster or Camden clamper will clamp you within a minute of your meter running out - and 1 only buys you 20 minutes these days. Then there's non-payment of congestion charge, parking in a resident's only zone or disabled bay without relevant permit etc. The clampers seem to have a sixth sense and they KNOW you're about to do some dodgy parking. You get clamped, you pay about 50 ($65ish) release fee PLUS the parking fine of 40-80. Worse, if you don't come back to find your car clamped you may well find it's been towed to a large garage somewhere underneath Hyde Park, who will take over 200 of your pounds from you before releasing the vehicle.
And THEN there are the private-property boys, who'll tow you and charge you over 100 a DAY storage charge. Thankfully these are being sort of gotten rid of by new legislation next year.

Had a few run-ins with clampers. Can you tell?

mediaho:
"in the U.S., the po-lice cannot break the law in order to enforce the law"

I don't know what point you were trying to make, but in the United States of America the police are given specific authority to disobey many laws in the performance of their duties. Examples: Speed limit, red traffic lights, NO PARKING zones, etc... The extent to which they can do this is dependant on the locality.