Really dull...Oh well. I have a good clamping story.
We were in Glasgow.
It was a bank holiday.
We parked on a yellow line opposite a multi-story car park.
It's a Bank Holiday. It'll be cool.
It wasn't cool. When we returned the car was gone. Stolen! It was a hire car. I phoned the police.
"No it's not stolen. It was illegally parked and was towed away"
"But we have a plane to catch. All our luggage/passports etc are in there. It's a hire car - and it's a bloody Bank Holiday"
"Not in Scotland it isn't sir."
Time was short so we had to take a taxi. Our driver was sympathetic to the point of psychotic - described in a think Glasgow accent how he would kill a parking dude if he ever met one down a dark alley - but when we arrived at the pound they laughed at us.
We'd parked outside the place where all the traffic wardens go for tea. We were towed away 2 minutes after parking there.
So far so dull...
ReplyDeletePeople keep walking past and smirking...In fact I just saw a bloke I know is a shoplifter walk past grinning!
ReplyDeleteReally dull...Oh well. I have a good clamping story.
ReplyDeleteWe were in Glasgow.
It was a bank holiday.
We parked on a yellow line opposite a multi-story car park.
It's a Bank Holiday. It'll be cool.
It wasn't cool. When we returned the car was gone. Stolen! It was a hire car. I phoned the police.
"No it's not stolen. It was illegally parked and was towed away"
"But we have a plane to catch. All our luggage/passports etc are in there. It's a hire car - and it's a bloody Bank Holiday"
"Not in Scotland it isn't sir."
Time was short so we had to take a taxi. Our driver was sympathetic to the point of psychotic - described in a think Glasgow accent how he would kill a parking dude if he ever met one down a dark alley - but when we arrived at the pound they laughed at us.
We'd parked outside the place where all the traffic wardens go for tea. We were towed away 2 minutes after parking there.
"Probably thought you were taking the piss mate"
I have always felt that clamping illegally parked vehicles is the wrong approach. It obstructs the traffic for one thing.
ReplyDeleteCrush the car and reduce it to a cube. That doesn't obstruct the traffic and you can be sure the owner won't park that car illegally ever again.