this happened to a "friend" of mine - TWICE !

Spoke wit feds, they said as long as no criminal damage or theft occurs then no laws are broken !

So, as the chain was linked over the lower arm, we let the tyre down, removed the wheel, dropped the lower arm & removed the clamp without any damage whatsoever ! While we were removing it, we didn't realise there was another car (Focus) clamped & the clampin company came to remove theirs while we was removing ours !

The guy never said a word to us, heard him on loud speaker sittin in his mota talkin to his who was sayin "there's some gezza, takin your f**kin clamp off his mota & you arn't gonna say a word or do anything about it ?" we couldn't stop laughin so the guy drove off !

We whipped it off, called the number on the clamp, the gezza wouldn't tell us where the office was so we couldn't drop it back, he was tryin to be smart, at which point I jus said he could collect it from the local plod shop & told him to have a nice evening !

Dropped it at the fed station & never heard another word.

The 2nd time, 2 cars got clamped down our road, 1 was my "friend" and another leary fella's who was visiting a friend close. He jumped straight on the phone, f'in & blindin at em, tellin em how he was gonna cut the things off & chuck em through the company's windows & cut em up etc if they didn't come remove it !

So at this point I got my thinkin cap on, went & chatted to the fella & offered to cut the clamp off for him, found out the car was in his name & he'd given all the details to clampin firm when he first started talkin to em.

So off we went & came back 10 mins later wit a generator & 9" grinder, 30 sec's later both clamps were off both cars & binned !

He called em back & laughed at em down the phone then hung up. Happy days. I told him what we was gonna do & he said he'd do the same but vise versa if they got in touch !

Few weeks later my pal recieved letters from the clampin firm demanding £250 & threatening criminal damage etc, at which point we wrote back & explained how we saw the clamp on 2 cars, then before we got a chance to raise the funds for the release fee & call the company etc, we heard a fella outside raving on the phone screamin bout the clamp etc, then a while later heard a bit of noise outside which we didn't take no notice of, then go down stairs the following morning & the clamp was gone !

That was about 6 months ago now & hopefully we haven't heard anything since !

Also shortly after my friend got a letter posted through the door by the feds which went to everyone saying how their investigatin the inncodent & will find & charge the criminals etc.

Hope this helps

jb