The real question you should be asking yourself is how do you feel about a private company intimidating you with legal threats to pay them several hundred pounds for doing something that is not illegal ?





If you leave your address in your next post I'll gladly threaten you with lots of nasty letters in the hope that you'll pay me the sum of £270 for doing nothing at all, I'll even reduce it to £220 as a "final gesture" in my fifth letter to you when it looks as though you are going to ignore all of my empty threats.



In fact, it sounds like an excellent business opportunity.

Ermmm I havent parked anywhere illegally, nor do I intend to. Law abiding citizien

If only you paid more attention to where you park, rather than picking up on minor spelling mistakes.

I think you've completely missed the point but never mind, maybe this thread is too hard for you.

Nice one McLaren , finally got to someone with some sense.

I carry a pair of 3' bolt cutters in my boot and post this in my window; never been clamped yet.

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The chances are that the OP hasn't parked "illegally". The likelihood is that they have merely failed to adhere to some spurious and misleading term imposed at the whim of a private parking company. The two things are very different.



I'd be telling them to do one and inviting them to challenge my stubbornness in court (which they won't). Then again, that's just me.

If the OP hasn't done anything illegal in parking where he did, then presumably he can call the police to get the clamp removed, as removing it himself with Bolt Cutters could leave him open to prosecution for criminal damage?



What would happen if he was to call the police rather than pay the ridiculously exhorbitant "release fee", would the "company" then just remove the clamp and stop bein pillocks?

What used to happen on the land outside my old office ... [urlhttp://jerrychicken.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/clamping-on-private-land/[/url ... which was patroled by two very shifty looking individuals who were well known to the police and used to vanish for a few months at a time on Her Majesty's Pleasure - its an industry for crooks when they are not behind bars.

He wasn't clamped. He was given an "invoice" on the basis that he breached the term of a contract. An alleged breach of contract is not a breach of the law.

tell them to take you to court. nothing will happen. it's the idiots who pay straight away they are after