Nuxx:Ed3d4c45-d9a1-4aea-9120-369dcee67220@37g2000yqp.googlegroups.com

Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!37g2000yqp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Look, Tom Crispin: How Councils Treat "Plebs" Re Parking Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:21:29 -0700 (PDT) References:   Lines: 28 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.251.147 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1238253689 30940 127.0.0.1 (28 Mar 2009 15:21:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:21:29 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 37g2000yqp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.251.147; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2522 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:691908

On Mar 28, 7:51=A0am, "Simon Mason"  wrote: > "Nuxx Bar"  wrote in message > > news:be3342d4-99cc-43dd-ae32-ac63cfd6c0c6@h5g2000yqh.googlegroups.com... > =A0 Councils are *still* blatantly abusing > DPE in order to raise revenue, despite having been clearly told not to > by central government; since they can't be trusted not to misuse the > > >powers which have been given to them, those powers should be taken > >away and handed back to the police. > > The opposite is happening in Hull. Car drivers have been fleeced of upwar= ds > of 200 quid by clampers when parking on private property and the council = has > cancelled its contract with them. > > http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/news/Victory-drivers-council...

Well, obviously some councils are better than others, although the clamping contract should never have been initiated in the first place (clampers were already well known as parasitic scum by 2005).

Oh, and did you seek the permission of the group owner, Chapman, before you posted about motoring? Especially since you posted about something that was good news to drivers. You've ruined Chapman's weekend, you know.