CLAMPING THE DEAD; Parking sharks target a hearse.Byline: By LAURIE HANNA CLAMPERS swooped on a HEARSE as undertakers prepared to take a coffin to a funeral. Disgusted Co-op staff complained after the hearse and a limo were targeted. But bosses at notorious IS Traffic Management demanded a pounds 200 release fee. An onlooker said: "What's the world coming to when they're even clamping the dead? The undertakers couldn't believe it. "One minute they were comforting bereaved relatives, the next they were dealing with sub-human scum." The cars were eventually freed "as a gesture of goodwill" at Poplar, East London East London, city (1991 pop. 240,474), Eastern Cape, SE South Africa, on the Indian Ocean. The city grew around a British military post founded in 1847. Its harbor was developed from 1886, and today it is a leading South African port. . But car park owners Poplar Harca Poplar HARCA (Housing and Regeneration Community Association) is a Registered Social Landlord in East London. It is the landlord of about 8,000 homes in the Poplar area, a quarter of which have been sold leasehold; the remainder are let on assured tenancies at subsidised rent said THEY ordered the unclamping because the firm had gone too far. Last year ISTM (chat) ISTM - It seems to me. got the RAC's Dick Turpin Award - for "highway robbery". SET ME FEE MOTORISTS in Britain paid out more than pounds 1billion in removal fees after being clamped last year l.hanna@mirror.co.uk CAPTION(S): LAST STOP Hearse is hit by clampers |
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