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Lynne Featherstone, the Home Office minister, will announce plans to curb the activities of clampers in England and Wales.

Ms Featherstone will say the rules should be brought into line with those in Scotland, where clamping on private land was banned after a judge said it amounted to 'extortion' and 'theft'.
Telegraph


I'm sure it is used as a means of extortion, but there has to be something to stop people just parking where they like. If someone parked in my front garden and I phoned the police would they be down in half an hour to move the car or would they say it wasn't their problem.
I imagine you are exactly right.

We came home the other day to find a couple getting into their car, which was parked on our land. They'd just put up a pair of bicycles and were leaving.

I walked right up to them, smiled, offered to shake hands, and introduced myself. The guy shook hands reluctantly and didn't offer his name in return.

I asked where they'd been biking, and they explained.

I mentioned politely that their car was on our land.

He seemed to think because the land was alongside a paved county road, it was okay to park there. It is illegal to park along county roads, but there are no signs saying so in the vast rural districts.

In these cases, if you call the sheriff's office, they say, "Did you ask them to leave?" And if you haven't, they tell you to do that.

Same thing if you've got poachers. Call the sheriff's office or the game warden's, and they tell you to deal with it.

Would the police in the city respond in that manner to an armed stranger firing his gun outside your house?   :rolleyes
I think if it is private land you should be able to clamp anything that trespasses.

Where all this falls down (as many things do) is the Somebody Do Something problem. If the police won't do anything and people themselves are banned from doing so , this is the same thing as the government actively supporting the baddies.
Step 1: Build fence
Step 2: Don't remove car from garden first.

I'm sure it's not stealing if you don't actually touch it.
Great joke Xocolata!  :lol

Building a fence sounds simple, until you start talking about many acres of property, much of it mountainous and heavily wooded. It's an expensive and exhausting undertaking.

Plus digging for post holes can start destructive erosion.

And the miscreants, around here at least, are absolutely delighted to destroy fencing.

But building the fence around the car, heh. Or pour a concrete slab. Oops, sorry sir, we were building the ultimate outhouse for the Guiness Book of World Records, and didn't notice your vehicle til it was too late.

:lcar :rocket
Council workmen around here paint around things.

There have been stories of painted around dead hedgehogs and dog turds. It is not the painters jobs to move them you see.

But they can now drag parked cars out the way to paint yellow lines under them and then fine the car owner who parked before the yellow lines were done.

I feel sorry for anyone with land really as they don't have yellow line powers. This is not like the Tories at all is it. We are in the Parallel Universe aren't we.
Love the idea of building the fence around the car :D

I think all illegal parking areas should be redefined as "Car Donation Points" so that putting your car there means you'd like the police to collect it and sell it to make money for charity (or to help with their budget)

So no punishment at all. Just a thank you note in the post for their generosity :D
Loudoun County Council stopped claiming abandoned cars and reselling them, because most of them would end up abandoned a second time, and the towing and selling costs were ridiculous.

Turned out they were "lemons" that just had too many things wrong with them. The cars, that is. Hmm, come to think of it though, the Council are lemons too.  :rolleyes
Clampers did it to make money, and they did pretty damned well out of others people's carelessness so it's their own fault for cashing in on it.
In future, if you have an inner-city private parking space, then fence it and install lockable posts or a gate to keep it clear of unwanted parkers.



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