Dave Hoatson
New Member
This is not Land Rover related but this could happen to anyone regardless of vehicle make.
My daughter had her car nicked some time early on Wednesday morning by a scrote who was caught by the police but who was still so ****ed at 1100 hours Thursday morning that he was considered unfit to be interviewed. He wasn't too ****ed to break into my daughters car, smash the steering lock, cut all the cables from the ignition switch and hot wire the car. What has really ****ed me off is that the police had the car recovered to their contracted garage in order that a forensic investigation could be carried out which has incurred a charge to my daughter of £150.00. The car was about 115 meters from my daughters house when it was recovered, in fact she could actually see it from her front door. To make matters worse the police released the car at 1200 hours on Friday but my daughter was not informed untill around 1600 hours that afternoon. The contractor then starts charging storage 24 hours after the release time. This meant that charges would commence at 1200 hours on the Saturday. I rang the garage at 1620 on Friday afernoon to find out how badly damaged the car was and to ascertain what recovery equipment I would need to bring down. At first they would not speak to me quoting the data protection act. When finally common sense prevailed they told me it was too late to collect that afternoon as their last collection time was at 1630 hours. I said OK I will collect it on Saturday morning only to be told that they were not open at the weekend but that they would still be charging £25.00 per day for the Saturday and Sunday even though they were denying me access to the vehicle. This is a contract between a private business and Devon and Cornwall Police. Whe the f**k writes these contracts? This is little more than legalised extortion. I finally had them agree to a 'special' appointment on Saturday morning and was able to collect the car. The situation is a complete joke. As a footnote I have written to our local rag, the Plymouth Herald with a copy to my local MP and have had responses from both. The Herald wants to do a story and the MP wants to chase it up. Watch this space.
My daughter had her car nicked some time early on Wednesday morning by a scrote who was caught by the police but who was still so ****ed at 1100 hours Thursday morning that he was considered unfit to be interviewed. He wasn't too ****ed to break into my daughters car, smash the steering lock, cut all the cables from the ignition switch and hot wire the car. What has really ****ed me off is that the police had the car recovered to their contracted garage in order that a forensic investigation could be carried out which has incurred a charge to my daughter of £150.00. The car was about 115 meters from my daughters house when it was recovered, in fact she could actually see it from her front door. To make matters worse the police released the car at 1200 hours on Friday but my daughter was not informed untill around 1600 hours that afternoon. The contractor then starts charging storage 24 hours after the release time. This meant that charges would commence at 1200 hours on the Saturday. I rang the garage at 1620 on Friday afernoon to find out how badly damaged the car was and to ascertain what recovery equipment I would need to bring down. At first they would not speak to me quoting the data protection act. When finally common sense prevailed they told me it was too late to collect that afternoon as their last collection time was at 1630 hours. I said OK I will collect it on Saturday morning only to be told that they were not open at the weekend but that they would still be charging £25.00 per day for the Saturday and Sunday even though they were denying me access to the vehicle. This is a contract between a private business and Devon and Cornwall Police. Whe the f**k writes these contracts? This is little more than legalised extortion. I finally had them agree to a 'special' appointment on Saturday morning and was able to collect the car. The situation is a complete joke. As a footnote I have written to our local rag, the Plymouth Herald with a copy to my local MP and have had responses from both. The Herald wants to do a story and the MP wants to chase it up. Watch this space.
