I walked out to my car early one morning last week to find a clamp on the back wheel and a notice on the window from the bailiff. Confusing and worrying, given I haven't had a parking ticket for about 3 years and have never had a speeding ticket. Turns out that the bailiffs had been told to clamp a car belonging to someone else further down my road. Same make of car, but a different colour, a different model and a different year. They couldn't find his, so they basically clamped the closest they could find to the one they were after. Luckily the bailiff saw me looking confused and said he had just spoken to the owner they were after. He was friendly enough and removed the clamp from my car. But.... what if the guilty party wasn't at home and the bailiffs hadn't spoken to him? What if I'd left my flat ten minutes later after he had gone? It just shows what kind of &*%$wits these people are.
