Don’t you just hate it when you meet a friend for lunch in a new place without realising you parked in a clamp zone? Well this is just what happened to the Queen last week in Portsmouth.
Two unmarked police cars were clamped during Her Majesty’s unexpected visit to Portsmouth. According to a police spokesperson the officers were with the vehicles when they were clamped. The clamping company claimed that the police declined to prove that they were on duty to their agent. The subsequent arrest of said agent seems to serve to contradict this statement.
All this fuss was started by the Queen deciding to have an impromptu lunch aboard a luxury Yacht. Had she chosen Burger King there would have been free parking and the whole embarrassing event could have been avoided.
Our man on the ground had this to offer us by way of a statement:
“If Freddie was still alive he’d be really upset… and I think this is the sort of thing that made John Deacon retire from the music industry.”
We don’t think Graham has been paying attention of late. Ever since Cheryl was dropped he just hasn’t have the motivation.
In order to keep some integrity to our work we asked a speed demon who preferred to remain anonymous for fear of clamper retaliation what she thought of the whole thing:
“It’s typical of clampers to let the power go to their head. It really makes me mad. Grrr*”
Original BBC report available here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-13575380
*The Grrr is our translation of the guttural angry sound made at the end of the statement.
