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I forgot to post this, and also I've forgotten which Paper is was from. Any way it was last week.





Looks like they'll use any excuse.

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Something about this just doesn't ring true to me. I can just about believe that in this day and age you could find a jobsworth plod (no offence intended towards all the genuinely decent police officers out there - and in here - who still possess common sense and have the strength of character to use it despite whatever crazy edicts they're working under this week), and I can fairly easily believe that someone working for a clamping firm could be a bit of an arsehole, but it all still seems TOO over the top to be for real.

Firstly, would any police officer, even the most anal rulebook-quoting one on the planet, really arrest someone just for snipping a few cable ties holding up a private company sign? I could understand if the cable ties were holding up an official local authority road sign, or were a temporary restraint for, say, a loose piece of scaffolding which was in danger of falling onto a busy pavement or road, but given the context as presented in this article?

Secondly, would even the most braindead of clamping cowboys really say anything that a paper could somehow twist, without fabricating their words completely, into "once I have evidence that the land isn't his I want him rearrested"? I know clampers have a deserved bad reputation, but...


Still, if this article is presenting all the facts and only the facts, then the one positive aspect is that the CPS chucked the case out instead of pursuing it with a similar level of pettiness.

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Chris

Well to be fair, I think the 4p thing is a bit of a red herring, because you have to consider not only the literal damage but also potential losses arisng from it indirectly. For example, supergluing up a £5 lock could cause hundreds or thousands of pounds worth of losses if a shop were forced to close for a day.

That aside, it's staggering how little the police car about petty crime until the moment a car becomes involved: then it's gloves off.

Next time he will just prise the barb in the cable tie to remove it - great technique for misers looking to reuse cable ties you see hanging off many lamp posts!

Gareth

PS. The style looks like it came from The Sun

And the security firm are still in doubt as to the ownership of the land

"Once i have evidence that the land isn't his ........."

Might be another challenge to the clampers -"prove they own the land"
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