This morning.
Steve writes:
“Clamper warning Marlborough Street [Dublin] – small 24 hr clearway signs gone less than 2 weeks ago. Note the signpost behind 2nd car (you can’t see the sign as it’s pointed away from car) Parking bay markings still in place on ground and machine still takes money (which I paid) with no mention of clearway. And I still got clamped (see 1st car). Bit of a racket !!!!!”
Boo.
Hiss.
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Not a good idea to tell the folks around here that one of the cars is yours. It kind of kills the support to clamper bashing. I’ll gladly let people prove me wrong.
Yeah what is that.
Would you mind to rephrase? I rarely get so confused by as little as four words.
Some one should set up a twitter page whereby people can warn one another where the clampers are. Oh wait. I forgot this was already done by somebody desperate to get their number of followers up.
Hahaha…. yeah OK… you solved the chicken and egg conundrum all by yourself then :)
Lol
It would need a dedicated individual to run it and someone impervious to the distractions of award-winning news sites.
;)
….I was never fit for purpose…. :)
Clampers, you.must.believe!
What? No!
All this time and I thought clampers’ name was just a nice whimsical handle and now it turns out its a (potentially) useful twitter account!
I don’t know why but this makes me sad somehow :(
You’re afraid he’s going to outgrow you, aren’t you? I wish I could tell you otherwise but, yes, it’s going to happen. Years from now you’ll still remember his birthday but he won’t even care.
Appeal it to DCC, it will probably be overturned
It’s the big blue open 24 hour parking sign on the corner of the building that smacks of delicious irony. Nomnomnom.
Hey! stop complaining – a nice proportion of the DCC annual revenue is derived from punitive measures against it’s very citizen’s, and they have targets to meet, gawl, won’t anyone think of the pressure they are under to reach targets?? jeez…
clamping prix.
Clamping prix? Is that what F1 teams do on their days off??
There’s always an excuse. I don’t think I’ve ever come across a person who thought they got clamped fairly – a seagull blocked my vision, it was only a min, the sign wasn’t pointing at me etc…
Fair enough Paul. But my point is that I paid to park there in the allotted time, in a bay that still had not had its markings removed, beside a machine which was still in operation, beside a new obscured clearway sign (which I failed to notice due to the fact that it was placed there pointing in a different direction altogether) and I still got clamped !
Even in fully marked clearways, the machines will still accept money for parking.
Oh hai! I’ve got clamped in city center thinking it’s Sunday and parking on Sunday is free…
Problem is it was Saturday and parking on neither Saturdays or Sundays is free there. So it was totally my mistake.
Parking bays which turn into sneaky clearways for an hour during every second Tuesday after the spring equinox for the craic are the worst. Took away my proud non clamping record. Mespil road being the one I refer to
Does that Quinlavin fella own the Clamping company who keep winning the contract?
your nearest hardware is round on parnell st, should you wish to purchase an angle grinder. otherwise the lovely staff at mcquillan’s will be glad to assist, i’m sure.
Again I say there is a gap in the market for personal clamps (stop sniggering!) which the driver can apply to hisher own vehicle and remove at the end of the parking session. So there.
you’ll be needing 4 sir….
You should check out “S.I. No. 181/1997” http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1997/en/si/0181.html and “S.I. No. 182/1997” http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1997/en/si/0182.html to see if there is any requirement for both road markings and “street furniture” (signs) to make it a valid clear-way. If there is, you can lodge an appeal and win.