How a PR stunt can embarrass a national company
I like this one, especially as I and many other have experienced the greed, the rigidity and lack of common sense of those policing our parking.
In this case a man that parked his son’s Fiesta in his drive got a clamp. There are arguments over whether it was 1 1/2 inches over or more. However, the clamp for non paying of road tax does not show NCP Services in a good light. Apparently the owner has a SORN (Statutory Off Road Notification). Despite telling this to NCP Services several times they will not back down.
The answer he cut his car in two and let NCP decide which part it wanted.
A heart warming story and one that shows how David can fight Goliath, I wonder whether they would clamp him for some reason.
May 12th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Please tell me more. This looks like a story for volume 2 of my book!
Barrie Segal
Author of The Parking Ticket Awards: Crazy Councils, Meter Madness & Traffic Warden Hell
May 14th, 2008 at 10:49 am
There seems to be some confusion over the SORN. This isn’t a ‘certificate verifying it had not been driven on the road and that it had been parked on his drive’ as the BBC report says.
It means the owner had agreed to keep the car off the road, which is very different, and means he doesn’t have to pay road tax. Cars with SORNs found parked on the public highway can, and often are, removed and crushed.
Quite right too!