Abducted by aliens dident wash with them,nor did i was actually in the back of the van stapping my kit down when your kind chappie was ticketing the front.
Ah well 50 quid lighter,for being 11 minutes over the time.
…Lock stock and two smoking barrels comes to mind…………..
A few years ago I was involved in a rescue in Newquay of a dog that had been chasing a Gull, went over the cliff. The only access was by way of a private road/track serving several properties near Fistral beach. These people had obviously got hacked off with camper vans invading their space and hired a clamping company to protect it. As a Coastguard we have access rights to the cliff edge for rescue purposes, however, as I was donning a harness at the rear of the C/G landrover (among the teams private response vehicles, about 9 4x4s) a little Fiesta van pulled up and out jumped a smart young chap in a shirt and tie. As I was the nearest and sort of took some vague interest when he pulled up, he collared me. “Whats going on here then?”, he said angrily. I responded with ‘its a rescue, mate’.
“You can’t park here, its private”
I said wait until we’ve finished and we’ll talk about it. He continued arguing for a few minutes and ended up with “Whats to stop me clamping all these vehicles?”, after pause I replied ‘Go ahead, when we’ve finished, we will bolt crop them off our trucks and put you into a cliff harness.”
“why would you put me into a harness?”
“Mate, to put the broken clamps into the back of your van, you will need to be lowered the 200 feet to reach it”
I was then pre-occupied with recovering the remains of someones beloved pet. Apparently he waited a minute or so then drove off, needless to say no one was clamped!
Baz
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