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To: elmatador who wrote (54192)	8/27/2009 3:10:53 AM
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Another good reason to flee London... 'Legalised mugging': AA demands ban on cowboy clampers making £1bn a year out of motorists dailymail.co.uk By Ray Massey Last updated at 9:08 AM on 21st August 2009 Millions of motorists are being 'legally mugged' by cowboy clampers whose antics are 'out of control', a damning report by the AA reveals today. An 'epidemic' has seen nearly £1billion being taken from half a million drivers a year in private car parks by an army of 2,000 clampers. Motorists routinely pay in excess of £500 to retrieve their clamped and towed away cars with no way to challenge the fines independently except expensive battles in a county court. Private parking enforcement is riven with 'bad and immoral' wheelclamping practices that are 'frightening and often bordering on criminality', says the AA, with women motorists in particular feeling 'menaced' and intimidated.