Re: im asking a big favour to any kind hearted souls...
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January 26 2006, 7:50 PM
hi this is your good mate shades :)
your car was clamped by a rudeass? how much did thee have 2 pay!! shall i raggatip them?!?!?!?!?!
love shades xxoxoxoxox
here it is:
ragga tip
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Re: im asking a big favour to any kind hearted souls...
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January 26 2006, 9:10 PM
I just sent one saying "I'm sending duncan and anthony and lee round to Clampit and Sons Ltd and they are mean so you better watch out. you horrible pooheads"
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ARROGANT Paul Hodgkiss is the car-clamper from hell.
He thought he could get away with imprisoning a driver who fell foul of his parking firm.
But today, the bulky six-footer was beginning a four-month jail sentence - with his "bullying" tactics condemned by a judge.
Hodgkiss was locked up after a jury found him guilty of imprisoning plumber Anthony Smith after towing the workman's van away.
All Mr Smith had done was ask why his van was damaged and a £390 drill had gone from it after Hodgkiss towed it away.
And the jury at Manchester Crown Court did not even know the shocking truth about his clamping business Checkmate Security. It earned him £50,000 a year, a big house and a BMW with a registration plate C14 MPU - which reads CLAMP U - and led him to repeatedly brag about the way he earned money from motorists.
On the day 37-year-old Hodgkiss' trial was due to start, he was called from court because his firm had clamped a Transco van working on an emergency gas leak and would only unclamp it when the £70 release fee had been paid.
And he is no stranger to the law before his trial. A barrister who believed he had been unfairly clamped by Hodgkiss successfully sued him and won £1,000 damages.
The court heard Mr Smith's van was towed away to Checkmate Security's premsies in Sheffield Street, Ancoats, as he carried out emergency repairs to a city-centre flat in Great Bridgewater Street.
Ordeal
His ordeal began when he telephoned Hodgkiss to arrange the release of his van in April last year.
The court heard how Hodgkiss:
# Repeatedly swore at Mr Smith and upped the fee from £70 to £180 before offering to drive him to his van;
# Took Mr Smith on a night ride of terror through Manchester city centre, during which he threatened to "splatter his face" and Mr Smith was so scared he even tried to escape.
# Locked Mr Smith in his darkened lock-up near Piccadilly train station;
# Returned to his lock-up with a friend. Mr Smith then heard them threaten: "We'll get you out, give you a good hiding and then put you back there for the night''.
Mr Smith was only freed when he made frightened calls for help to the police on his mobile phone.
Sentencing Hodgkiss, Judge Michael Henshell told him: "You regarded yourself as above and beyond the law.
"Your behaviour at best can be described as bullying and high handed. The victim was humiliated and frightened as you intended him to be.
"You bullied him for your own amusement and gratification and I regard this as the least sentence I can impose."
The judge said 42-year-old Mr Smith, from Rochdale, left a note on his dashboard giving his whereabouts when parking his van in a bay at the block of flats.
In a four-day trial, Hodgkiss, of Charlesworth Avenue, Hindley Green, denied locking Mr Smith in the compound or being aggressive as the plumber.
Hodgkiss - who accepted his income was £50,000 last year - claimed the plumber locked himself in the lock-up and had put something in the lock to stop it being opened. But when police tried the lock with Hodgkiss' key it opened first time.
Mr Smith said he was glad his ordeal was over and added: "I feel the world is a bit safer now that he has been convicted.
Stress
"It has been very stressful for me. I was a bit stunned by it all when it happened and I still feel very emotional about it."
Throughout his trial Hodgkiss appeared keen to avoid drawing attention to himself. He tried to avoid being photographed by running from a car to the court and even came out of the court wearing a motorcyle helmet with a jacket over his head.
The publicity-shy approach is a change from his high-profile image he has often lived up to. In the past, he has made no secret of the pleasure he gains from his work. Many have heard him bragging about the money he has made from clamping drivers.
But many clampers who court controversy could soon see their money-making enterprises coming to an end.
Clamping on private land, as in Mr Smith's case, is not yet subject to any rules and regulations. But from next year tough new regulations are set to be introduced to weed out the "cowboy'''' clampers.
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Re: im asking a big favour to any kind hearted souls...
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January 26 2006, 11:06 PM
well ...
I'm going to stun you, then chew through your ribs and eat your heart. Then I'm going to take your carcass and impale it on a pole, to remind others that clamping cars is unjust.
Is that out of order enough?
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