CLAMPERS HAVE LICENCE TO PRINT MONEY

Parts, 1,2 and 3
Part 1:    • Carry on clamping (Part 1 of 3)  

Part 2:    • Carry on Clamping (Part 2 of 3)  

Part 3:    • Carry on Clamping (Part 3 of 3)  

The government's licensing of the private parking industry is "a nonsense" that has done nothing to stop cowboy operators from charging outrageous fees for clamping and towing motorists for the tiniest infractions, according to the AA.

In a Tonight programme investigating the private parking industry, the AA said that private parking clamping should now be banned as it was done in Scotland in 1992.

Carry on Clamping: Tonight reveals that some private parking enforcers are happy to:

*Clamp and tow a motorist within THREE minutes of running past the pay and display meter

*Clamp a vehicle in a restaurant parking lot while a customer has gone to an ATM across the road and a passenger is still seated inside

* Charge £350 to clamp and tow a vehicle nine minutes after the parking ticket ran out and refuse to accept credit card payment over the phone thereby stranding an 18-year-old girl overnight in Birmingham.

cont: http://www.itv.com/News/tonight/episo...