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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Sir Tigger KC on 08 January 2015, 20:21:11
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..... where they parked up three months ago? ??? ::) Dosn't TB have a habit of abandoning his car and forgetting where he left it? :-\
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2901633/Three-months-30-minute-bay-Fully-taxed-insured-BMW-abandoned-parking-space-long-grass-growing-bonnet.html
Something you need to tell us TB? :D A BMW? ??? Really?? :o ::) ;D
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I am afraid to say that illustrates what is totally wrong with our modern society.
Just a few thoughts.
It isn't parked acrosss two bays just slightly over.
It must belong to someone.
Why not recover it to a pound somewhere?
Perhaps the owner is in hospital or died?
has anyone actually been to the registered address to ask where the owner is? Have they looked on the sytem to see who taxed it last?
perhaps they are working overseas and the car was stolen so the B4stewarsd could get home free
What a total waste of money crushing the car.
I could go on but what is the point, it was parked badly in a 30 minute spot and so must be crushed. I hope they sleep well knowing they have done a great job that day. :y
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I wonder what the parking fines are? Be cheaper for the council to receive twice the fines than pay to tow and crush it surely :-\
Jimbob, over to you... let me know how much the council is owed :y
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Despite my flippancy ::) , it is indeed very strange that the car has been left there for 3 months and not taken to the pound and stranger that they couldn't trace the owner. :-\
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Despite my flippancy ::) , it is indeed very strange that the car has been left there for 3 months and not taken to the pound and stranger that they couldn't trace the owner. :-\
The owner might be in the river :-\
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We know someone who got legless and following day found his car was missing. Reported stolen and paid out.
Ages later his car was found parked near to the house where he used to live.
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Once insurers pay out, subject vehicle ceases to be covered... which given you or I can check the insurance status of any vehicle from our mobiles, I'm sure that given the attention this car has received, it is definitely insured :-\
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Well, it's certainly a BMW given its' location relative to the white lines, and someone has had fun with a packet of grass seed. :D
It always amazes me how the Police can be "unable to trace the owner" when the car must be registered to someone. Mrs. KW got the same answer when she was involved in a hit and run. Number plate, CCTV footage, a business card that he'd left at a premises shortly before the accident but no, "unable to trace the owner". >:(
Why the hell it's not in a pound rather than making the place untidy I don't know.. Probably because they're afraid they won't find someone to pay the storage charges. ::)
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Transfer title and strip it for bits.....then they would recover the parking fine costs.
Its not like BMW's are difficult to bypass the immobiliser on.
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Its not like BMW's are difficult to bypass the immobiliser on.
Might as well bypass it with a Hiab in this case. ;D
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Ive passed that walking the dog!
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How can they not trace the owner? Should be a 5 minute job to find out Mr/ Mrs XXX owns it. Where is he/she. Should the worst have happened and they're "no longer with us" this could easily be found out. Who's paying the tax and insurance? Can't understand 3 months. If I got snapped without tax or insurance I'm sure they'd find me much quicker
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Ive passed that walking the dog!
Find out if the council will sell it for a small fee to cover the tickets and recovery costs :y
Also if you could let me know the reg number, a v5 can be applied for, then the keys can be obtained and it can be driven home :y
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Ive passed that walking the dog!
Find out if the council will sell it for a small fee to cover the tickets and recovery costs :y
Also if you could let me know the reg number, a v5 can be applied for, then the keys can be obtained and it can be driven home :y
Doubt a small fee would cover the parking costs.
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Ive passed that walking the dog!
Find out if the council will sell it for a small fee to cover the tickets and recovery costs :y
Also if you could let me know the reg number, a v5 can be applied for, then the keys can be obtained and it can be driven home :y
Doubt a small fee would cover the parking costs.
Why not? It only has three tickets, so say 3 x £60 plus £100 towing fee plus £10 per day for storage whilst waiting for v5/keys... could be on the drive for less than £500 8)
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Perhaps the owner is in hospital or died?
has anyone actually been to the registered address to ask where the owner is? Have they looked on the sytem to see who taxed it last?
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Ooh, that would be far too much trouble. Logical yes, but far too much trouble. :o
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It always amazes me how the Police can be "unable to trace the owner" when the car must be registered to someone. Mrs. KW got the same answer when she was involved in a hit and run. Number plate, CCTV footage, a business card that he'd left at a premises shortly before the accident but no, "unable to trace the owner". >:(
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Having been in that same situation I know what you mean. I've still got the letter from the police which states "we have exhausted all avenues of enquiry but have not been successful in tracing the owner". My reply to them was that they would soon trace the owner if it went through a speed camera. ::) We eventually traced the owner ourselves and their insurer paid out. :y
A simple house call, speak to neighbours etc should resolve this, but I presume nobody has been allocated the time to do such a simple task. ::)
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Perhaps the owner is in hospital or died?
has anyone actually been to the registered address to ask where the owner is? Have they looked on the sytem to see who taxed it last?
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Ooh, that would be far too much trouble. Logical yes, but far too much trouble. :o
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It always amazes me how the Police can be "unable to trace the owner" when the car must be registered to someone. Mrs. KW got the same answer when she was involved in a hit and run. Number plate, CCTV footage, a business card that he'd left at a premises shortly before the accident but no, "unable to trace the owner". >:(
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Having been in that same situation I know what you mean. I've still got the letter from the police which states "we have exhausted all avenues of enquiry but have not been successful in tracing the owner". My reply to them was that they would soon trace the owner if it went through a speed camera. ::) We eventually traced the owner ourselves and their insurer paid out. :y
A simple house call, speak to neighbours etc should resolve this, but I presume nobody has been allocated the time to do such a simple task. ::)
Does rather presume that they have the available manpower :-X
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Does rather presume that they have the available manpower :-X
Well, perhaps if they were honest about a lack of manpower people would vote in a government who would give them a bigger budget.
As it is, they just lose public support.
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We had a (somewhat unique) woman who worked with us who we used to see regularly as she popped in and out (she was mobile). Then nobody heard from her in ages.
6 months passed, when her boss got a phonecall about her liveried van parked up in Heathrow short stay for months....
Turns out, she'd got fed up and emigrated. And was still being paid.
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Dosn't TB have a habit of abandoning his car and forgetting where he left it? :-\
I'll own up to losing the Battlebus in Wolverhampton one week. But it was a very fuzzy week. I know we were barred from one pub because my Geordie colleague, after serveral pints, could say a sentence without the fruck word. I recall Hadoop being a rather dry subject when the head is delicate :-[
I occasionally need to loose a car, like this week, into one of the local parking areas. There's one near me that I normally use, but if its full, I have to put it somewhere else. If I don't really concentrate when I get out, I can't always remember where I put it. Maybe that's the cause of my OCD - everything has to be precisely in its place, else I won't have a clue where I've put it :-[
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We had a (somewhat unique) woman who worked with us who we used to see regularly as she popped in and out (she was mobile). Then nobody heard from her in ages.
6 months passed, when her boss got a phonecall about her liveried van parked up in Heathrow short stay for months....
Turns out, she'd got fed up and emigrated. And was still being paid.
;D ;D ;D
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1. That grass couldn't be more fake.
2. This is nothing... least it's in a parking area and taxed! There's a green BMW 3 series abandoned in a bus stop just off J22 of the M25 that's been there for weeks if not months now that Hertfordshite council are to bone idle to remove >:(