Ian Taylor registered his Ford Fiesta with the DVLA as being off the road, but an eagle eyed clamper working for the DVLA noticed that the cars rear wheel was sticking out of his drive and so clamped it. The DVLA demanded £200 to release it, but got more than they bargained for.
The car owner was so outraged at the clamping that he decided to cut the car in half with a petrol driven chain saw and when the clampers returned to seize the vehicle, they were asked which half they wanted!
The clampers response was to call 999, five police cars and ten police officers attended the emergency, as well as a fire engine and crew. But as the police decided to take no action, the clampers told the car owner that he could keep the car!
Mr Taylor, a builder, said: "I had to make a point. These people are so petty and they just won't listen to you."
"The car was legally registered to be where it was - on my driveway. But they decided to make an issue of it because of two inches. It's ridiculous."
"The ticket said it was a criminal offence to damage the clamp so I didn't. It was a drastic step but I stand by my decision to do it."
A spokesman for clamping firm NCP Services, James Pritchard, communications manager, said: "One of our team spotted the vehicle and half of it was on a public highway. We decided to clamp it as it didn't have any road tax."
"We returned to find that the chap who owned it had bumped it onto his own land and had taken a rather drastic step of using a petrol-fuelled angle grinder to cut it in half. He managed to set fire to it at the same time."
"He took it upon himself to commit a serious act of vandalism. He put himself at risk and he put other people at risk."
Hopefully there were no real emergencies occurring at the same time as this one in the area.
Source [Telegraph]
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