Lady clamped and fined as she tried to do a U-turn in car park!
on June 25th, 2010 at 9:08 pmA motorist had her car clamped while she was still at the wheel. Jessie Martin pulled into the car park to make a U-turn – but two vans from a clamping firm pulled in to block her exit. Two men approached her and ordered her to switch off the engine. When she obeyed, they fitted a clamp to her car. ‘These men just came out of nowhere,’ said Miss Martin, 31. ‘I thought I was getting robbed or something. They didn’t have any uniform on, they didn’t even have badges on. ‘He asked me to turn the engine off because he said something and I didn’t hear him – and that’s when he clamped me.’ Miss Martin said the clampers – from LBS Enforcement – had only pulled on identity badges after they had attached a clamp to her car. The mother-of-four called police and her partner after the clampers warned her the car would be towed and she would be charged £80 for every half hour they kept her waiting for their money. ‘She was in a terrible state when I got there,’ said her partner Michael Jenner, 39, a roofer. ‘She was crying and felt very intimidated. If she had parked then fair enough – but she was only turning around. More
