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THE UNACCEPTABLE FACE OF CLAMPING...
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Over the past 11 years the RAC Foundation has campaigned for the introduction of statutory regulations to limit the excesses of private clamping companies. It has catalogued the foflowing cases: • Clampers demanding a woman drivers gold tooth or sexual favours in lieu of payment • Clampers immobilising a hearse with a body on board • Clampers in Doncaster threatening to hold a mother's three-year-old daughter hostage until she collected £60 from a bank • In London, a motorist moved his car under direction from the police who were investigating a murder at the original site where his car was parked. He was promptly clamped • In Portsmouth a man was clamped when he stopped because the dampers' van had run into the back of him
IA damper in Essex forced a heavily pregnant woman to walk two miles to a cash machine and back to pay him the £75 clamp release fee