Mad one yesterday, and kinda security related...
Had 3x calls on the phone from a private number.... Which I normally ignore, but by the 5th ring i answered it to tell them to go do one.
To my surprise it was the Metatrak control room asking about the van!
They asked if everything was ok as they have an authorized movement alarm. That means the van had been moved without the ignition key being used.
Well, we was working in KingsX and the van was parked up in a parking spot down the road.... I said hold on I'll check.
So quickly logged to to the Ring App and the phone......
I couldn't believe what I was seeing........
I saw the van on the back of a lorry driving down the road with yellow stickers over the window.....
Moving over to the tracker App I watched as the van made its way across London to a car pound 1hr away.....
.
After a quick Google search on the local council clamp and removal policy.
That lead me to the TRACE website which had all the details and where to go to get it back.....
That was the good bit....
The bad bit was having to get myself to the pound, then copies of license, insurance,bank statement,v5, etc etc while mobile.
And then the very worst bit.... Having to pay £240 in cash to get it back !!!
Not a good day.
Moral of the story...... Security tech on your van is good.
Not paying Islington council PCN's quick enough will get you clamped and lifted. - which is bad
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heres the van looking very sorry for itself in the pound . . .
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Had 3x calls on the phone from a private number.... Which I normally ignore, but by the 5th ring i answered it to tell them to go do one.
To my surprise it was the Metatrak control room asking about the van!
They asked if everything was ok as they have an authorized movement alarm. That means the van had been moved without the ignition key being used.
Well, we was working in KingsX and the van was parked up in a parking spot down the road.... I said hold on I'll check.
So quickly logged to to the Ring App and the phone......
I couldn't believe what I was seeing........
I saw the van on the back of a lorry driving down the road with yellow stickers over the window.....
Moving over to the tracker App I watched as the van made its way across London to a car pound 1hr away.....
.
After a quick Google search on the local council clamp and removal policy.
That lead me to the TRACE website which had all the details and where to go to get it back.....
That was the good bit....
The bad bit was having to get myself to the pound, then copies of license, insurance,bank statement,v5, etc etc while mobile.
And then the very worst bit.... Having to pay £240 in cash to get it back !!!
Not a good day.
Moral of the story...... Security tech on your van is good.
Not paying Islington council PCN's quick enough will get you clamped and lifted. - which is bad
...
edit:
heres the van looking very sorry for itself in the pound . . .
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