Is my car exempt from cold hearted bailiffs?

[ploddertom]

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Clamps Dept????????? Sounds more like his mate - what a crock of doggy doos they come up with.

[CleverClogs]

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Clamps Dept????????? Sounds more like his mate

Or his gay lover?

[bluebottle]

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Clamps Dept?????????

What the bailiff and his mate do behind closed doors is entirely their business.

[CleverClogs]

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Clamps Dept?????????

What the bailiff and his mate do behind closed doors is entirely their business.

Nipple clamps? msl:

[bizzybob]

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Nipple clamps? msl:

That sounds quite painful, perhaps if someone was to take a bailiff hostage they may try that as torture

[bluebottle]

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Nipple clamps? msl:

Whatever turns them on! Lol!

[wales01man]

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Only a human can be tortured since when was a Bailiff human?

[bluebottle]

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That sounds quite painful, perhaps if someone was to take a bailiff hostage they may try that as torture

Don't put ideas into people's minds, BB.

[bizzybob]

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Don't put ideas into people's minds, BB.

It would be hilarious if one well known bully bailiff had that experience, mind you he thinks he is so hard that he might enjoy it

[bluebottle]

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It would be hilarious if one well known bully bailiff had that experience, mind you he thinks he is so hard that he might enjoy it

You could always take him out to the Eddystone Lighthouse and leave him there. He'd go cuckoo within a week.

[bizzybob]

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You could always take him out to the Eddystone Lighthouse and leave him there. He'd go cuckoo within a week.

Better idea, strand him on Puffin Island off Anglesey, he would be in good company with the rats on there.

[bluebottle]

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Better idea, strand him on Puffin Island off Anglesey, he would be in good company with the rats on there.

Eddystone Lighthouse is 17 miles off the coast of Plymouth. Can you imagine him ringing Plymouth Magistrates Court from there -

PM: Hello. Is that Plymouth Magistrates Court?
PMC: Yes.
PM: I need authority to force entry with a locksmith.
PMC: What's the address?
PM: Eddystone Lighthouse.
PMC: Oh. It's you again. Last time you said you were on The Mewstone.
PM: I was.
PMC: Oh yes. You were trying to levy on A Seagull. Who is it this time, A Pollack? :grin:

[bizzybob]

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Eddystone Lighthouse is 17 miles off the coast of Plymouth. Can you imagine him ringing Plymouth Magistrates Court from there -

PM: Hello. Is that Plymouth Magistrates Court?
PMC: Yes.
PM: I need authority to force entry with a locksmith.
PMC: What's the address?
PM: Eddystone Lighthouse.
PMC: Oh. It's you again. Last time you said you were on The Mewstone.
PM: I was.
PMC: Oh yes. You were trying to levy on A Seagull. Who is it this time, A Pollack? :grin:

I thought it was A S Pratt.

No seriously, bailiffs should be banned from clamping, as these days with modern work patterns making travel at unsocial hours outside public transport availability, and in rural areas where there is none, a vehicle is essential, therefore should be exempt from seizure anyway, so long as it is not worth more than say £ 1.5 - 2K, along with Transit sized vans and above which are usually tradespeople and couriers, who cannot work at all without the van. In extremis can you imagine a scenario:

Bailiff siezes vehicle, debtor loses job as a DIRECT result. DWP say they wilfully left their job, so sanctioned, debtor has no money for anything let alone paying the bailiff, will the cretin come in and threaten to sieze the food parcels the debtor has to get to feed their family, along with all the furniture, when the vehicle fails to raise enough at auction to pay all the fees and some of the debt?

[Sir Vere Brayne d'Emmidge]

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I thought it was A S Pratt.

No seriously, bailiffs should be banned from clamping, as these days with modern work patterns making travel at unsocial hours outside public transport availability, and in rural areas where there is none, a vehicle is essential, therefore should be exempt from seizure anyway, so long as it is not worth more than say £ 1.5 - 2K, along with Transit sized vans and above which are usually tradespeople and couriers, who cannot work at all without the van. In extremis can you imagine a scenario:

Bailiff siezes vehicle, debtor loses job as a DIRECT result. DWP say they wilfully left their job, so sanctioned, debtor has no money for anything let alone paying the bailiff, will the cretin come in and threaten to sieze the food parcels the debtor has to get to feed their family, along with all the furniture, when the vehicle fails to raise enough at auction to pay all the fees and some of the debt?

Before a clamped vehicle is removed to be sold at auction (excluded are DVLA seizures) it must have a value wich is at least 100% above the sum of A) the warrant/LO + B) the bailiff fees + C) the removal cost + D) the storage ( 6 days minimum ) cost +E) the auctioneers cut ( generally 15/20% inclusive of VAT) and if no keys and/or V5c with it (not many defaulters will give you those) at least the cost of replacing them, and on some modern cars this can run in the thousands, but assuming that the defaulter has given you the keys and V5c voluntarily because he/she can not pay for the fine/LO, the value of the vehicle must be all the above and the value is from Glass Guide, trade in in poor condition, where a 2005 Vauxhall Vectra is worth £900.

[bizzybob]

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So Sir Vere for many debts the vehicle seizure is both futile and unlawful using your formula for a Transit or a Sprinter as a 2009 or earlier which many jobbing tradespeople own, bought ex fleet at 3 years old, now worth £3K ish would be on a sticky wicket as trade would be £2K, and auction fetches £500?

The bailiff cuts his own throat in that case a\s he will be lucky to get a bean, having put the debtor out of work and onto benefits therefore potentially vulnerable.