Car Removal Turns Ugly | Car Pound Cops | Debt Recovery Documentary
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ค. 2024
- Following the dramatic work of recovery crews as they trace, track and tow
vehicles driven illegally on Britain’s roads.
In this episode: New recovery recruit Ashley is called out to recover a Mercedes whose driver has been arrested. Back at the pound, a man is trying to reclaim a black BMW seized for no insurance and cloned plates and can’t quite manage to get his story straight about the illegal plates... And Lee picks up a vehicle on a residential street pulled by police in a suspected theft case.
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So a private company holds cars containing police evidence? That doesn't seem very secure. Evidence could easily be tampered with.
I think that’s how that works tho they police don’t have impound lots so they use tow yards
2:30 listen carefully
How is a sworn private company any different than a police lot? More likely the guys for profit will have MORE attention to the lot and they’re sworn to store the car under penalty too
I love how you just assume there would be less tampering if the car was stored at a police station.
@@davidh8228 Many years ago, i worked for a company who had a Mobile Exhibition Unit, basically a modified 22 foot caravan with drop sides towed by a hired Land Rover Discovery. We used to store it, because we were owned by the County Council, in the covered bay at the County Police Head Quarters where they also kept various other Police Vehicles. even then, on weekend someone stole the ladders off the top of it and the spare tyre
Here in the US unclaimed impounded vehicles are sold at public auction
That guy getting his bmw back...what a dag. Complains about the money he had to pay to release the car...I only saw his girlfriend paying!
In the United States, used car parts and restoring cars is big business. Seems pretty stupid that they just crush cars. I go to a "pull a part" junkyard and when I need a part, I can go to a place and get a working windshield wiper motor or a fender or door in the exact color of my car or engine part or even something as silly as a set of fuses. The yard gets their money, I pay 10% what a new part cost and when the cars finally are crushed, they have no seats, no doors and many less parts that are now being well used keeping other cars on the road. I suppose this it the stupidity seen all over England like their recycling business where the yards get paid by the government and they literally ship the un-recycled plastic to India.
The scrap yards where I live in Ontario, Canada, we do the same thing. Vehicles are stripped of any usable parts,which are sold. Any thing left over will be crushed. We have a huge steel plant that they go to, so that everything is recycled ♽. I hope you have a great day Jack.🙂⚘️.
Did you miss where they said they strip the cars of parts that can sell first?
@@Gapines23obviously, common sense is not common nor is logic.
Usefull parts are stripped out, the rest gets crushed.
The benefit of crushing is in easier to transport to recycling facility instead of taking up space in a junkyard or impound. Also reduces/prevents a chance of people creating cars with fake VINs,...
Also in most of the Europe, cars are subjected to anual roadworthiness and safety checks. There are rare cases when using used parts makes financial sense, and even less cases where using used parts is safe (old tires with still legal amount of tread). So unlike the USA, where you can drive an unsafe/dangerous and unroadworthy vehicles, that is much harder in European countries.
Expensive functional cars are crushed for two reasons:
1) So that the criminals won't buy back at auction
2) As a deterrent to crime.
9:32 dude, criminals don't take their time replacing the number plates they steal. They see a car for sale, copy the numbers and get a new plates made up. He was clearly the one who changed his plates 🤣
Those licenses plates aren’t even bolted to the car ? Must be easy to steal them. In the USA ours are bolted to the car. Takes more time to take them off.
Actually most in U.S. screw on with either metal or plastic screws.
Same in EU countries (not sure if that’s all of them, but some).
Here you get a 150 USD fine if the license plates are not securely fastened.
A bit of a joke though, you just need to fix it with 2 screws, so unless the thieves are so inept they can not operate a screwdriver, they are only 20 seconds longer to steal.
In Switzerland number plates are magnetically held on. We HAVE to carry photo ID at all times, even for hikes and shopping. They love their paperwork here.
Just gonna test drive it but her kid’s colouring books on the back seat and her dad’s bolt cutters in the boot… yea ok love
Can't blame the Police for towing that BMW, the plates didn't match the VIN, and the Owner's voice didn't match his ethnicity.
Good video and info
American here. I have a dumb question. Why could they not auction the cars? Why do they have to be destroyed?
Many of these very old cars are unroadworthy, so the authorities do not want the cars to be returned to the roads anyway. As stated by the scrapper, the commercially valuable parts are recovered for resale. The rest of the car is of little value and is scrapped.
British car registration rules require annual mechanical safety inspections, so what would pass muster in many parts of America would instantly fail in the UK. The British have higher standards.
In US police can issue a "fix it" ticket where you have so many days to repair and return to police inspection station. So it's handled on an exception basis; a few weird states do require annual inspection.
In Australia every state has different laws for car registration and insurance. Police are not required to check for drivers driving without insurance and or registration unless it’s a police car equipped with checking devices. Also the amount of times I’m stuck behind a car without working brake lights is ridiculous! I purposely change lanes! Police don’t even pull you over for not having working brakes. You can report it to the police station and that’s all.
Every police car in New South Wales has automatic high speed car registration, and by extension, driver’s licence checking cameras. If the suspect car, or driver, ought not to be on the road the police will know about this straight away.
his car ? she bought it... she paid the compound... she paid the plate.... yet it his car....
Crazy to watch videos of 3rd world countries where people are driving around in 50 year old rusty scrap metal while all these perfectly good cars are being destroyed because of taxes and paperwork.
They use tape/glue to attach license plates? Also destroying them is such a waste. No police / charity auctions?
That's the exact concept I agree with. Donate them to someone in need or Auction them off. Total waste. And some of those cars are pretty nice. Better than a lot of the vehicle's I've had. CRAZY
You gave a pair of bolt crops back??? Did you just fall off a Christmas tree?
Does this guy think were all stupid ? 17:55 Save it for the Judge!
They can’t preserve the chain of
custody of evidence, I can’t imagine that doesn’t effect criminal cases
if it's not sticky; it's not "tape"
Scrap yards buy junkers for $300 to refurbish or use for parts in the US
Where did it "turn ugly"?
17:20 :p
@@jonwhite2706 Sorry, you've lost me. At 17:20 the BMW owner's talking to the receptionist and both are being pleasant and polite.
@@John-G he got a little mad at the gate :p
"Over 7 million illegal cars are being driven on Britains roads every day...!
That is one hell of a statistics!
ANOTHER RE-UPLOAD!
and obviously lies
just creating more polution instead of making auction sales to help new owners get the car legal. actual people who really need a car
Being forensically held out in the weather?
That does not make a lot of sense.
30:57 who is paying as low as £500 on their insurance?!! Right now the rates are at least 1000 if you're lucky
Third party only insurance?
I currently have insurance on both my motorhome (otherwise would be homeless) and an old minivan. This is while on a disability income. It came down to living in a motorhome or out on the street but with the severity of my current health motorhome was the only option.
So what turned ugly?
The ugly part is the bullshit government not reusing the vehicle's for a good cause, like Auctioning them off or giving them to someone in need, instead they're crushing some perfectly good vehicles like a bunch of dicks.
Raise the punishment for these offences to much higher figures that would possiblity quell the offences sumwhat
I understand that there are people that don't follow the laws of the road and I can understand that sometimes the vehicle's need to be taken away, but what I don't understand is this, If your going to take a vehicle away from someone that is undeserving of it, and it's costing tax payers money every year, why not AUCTION THEM OFF, OR EVEN BETTER, DONATE THEM TO SOMEONE LESS FORTUNATE LIKE A NEEDY FAMILY WITH CHILDREN OR SOME OLD GUY LIVING OFF SOCIAL SECURITY AND CAN'T AFFORD TO PURCHASE A RUNNING VEHICLE?? THIS TO ME MAKES MORE SENSE THAN TO CRUSH THE FUCKN VEHICLE AND THEN BITCH ABOUT IT COSTING THE TAXPAYERS MONEY EVERY FUCKN YEAR!! DO SOMETHING GOOD WITH THEM AND GIVE BACK TO PEOPLE THAT ACTUALLY DO WANT A VEHICLE AND WILL OBEY THE LAW!! COMMON FUCKN SENSE! I GUESS AIN'T THAT FUCKN COMMON!!
Very good video. Who gets the value of the crushed car in the end? 😊
Likely those greedy Politicians.
The guy with the black bmw gets his girl to buy the car , register the car and then blames others for the clone plates and no insurance ? Hmmmm i am not buying he is the victim 😮
Why scrap the full car? Why not strip it down and sell the parts second hand
You would never think there was that amount of crime in the UK.😮
I would,
42:00 why do these guys NOT WEAR SEAT belts?
Between evidence being left with civilians to crushing cars because they were used in a crime im confused. Chain of custody doesn't matter but some how the cars are guilty lol.
destroying people property bexause its parked. what a joke law
Here in Canada,the scrap yards strip everything that can be used, and or sold. If the vehicle is road worthy they will sell it. Anything left over is crushed then sent to a metal plant to be recycled ♽. I hope you have a great day ❤️🙂⚘️.
Yep! There's a sell by date for cars that go to auction from provincial junkyards; if they're sitting too long then they get compacted.
love this wish the states did this
Why the face diapers
People don’t respect basic laws or law enforcement officers like we used to! They don’t care about others or other people’s property.
This is what happens when church attendance goes down down down! They have forgotten or mock the Golden Rule. Treat others the same way you want to be treated!
I think UK's politicians are so smart, they can have profit for all citizen's choices.
1. Bail their car out, government might get some profit from it.
2. Let's the car destroyed, government can earn money from tax of new car selling.
3. They earn connection with car company that can import more brand new car to sell.
Seems a huge waste crushing cars, why not sell them too wreckers for parts? There's 3rd world nations buying up cars here in Australia just to ship home as parts...it's that bad we can't get basic parts for anything over 5yrs old...
That is by design. I don't know about there, but here in the U.S. they did this whole "cash for clunkers" campaign where they would buy you junk old car for more than it was worth. It was all a scheme to get older affordable cars off the road and force people to take on payments for newer cars in order to "revitalize" the auto industry. Now they build garbage cars to ensure that by the time you have it paid off, you will buy a new one. Along with making it harder to repair anything on your own.
They're stripped for saleable spare parts - how many times do they have to repeat that?
You can most certainly secure new and used parts for a 20 year old Volkswagen Golf in Australia. 🇩🇪 🇦🇺
First a thief steals your van then the police hold it hostage.
Well, they have to make sure they give it back to the real owner first and it has to be legal to drive. If you have been driving it on a suspended license, no insurance, with expired tags…. You aren’t getting back till you fix all of that. Would you want the police to give it back and then you get hit by that person, injured and have to pay for all the bills?
@@nancyaguirre2307so you hold the belief that government should steal your property because you didn't purchase the pieces of paper that they require you to purchase from them? Seems a bit odd, no? If I start a racket that requires you to pay me to ensure that you are safe to walk in public, then you fail to pay walking fee, I can come steal your footwear for the sake of public safety? 14 days, and I'll sell them to the highest bidder. All for public safety ofcourse. Just remember, if you pat me, you will be safe, and if you don't I will take everything you own, for the sake of safety. Get the picture yet?
@@arnold8746"pieces of paper" like a driving licence and car insurance?
Get a life.
Canadian here. I completely agree. Had a truck stolen. Cost $500 to re vin, new plates and cops called us on a Friday saying it was at the pound, went to go pick it up and they wouldn’t release it. Had to pay $750 in impound/storage fees on the following Monday. And that’s before we even knew if the truck was still road worthy… “you’ve been violated already so we’re gunna bend you over once more just because we can”
@@colehagglund4259 Were you insured for theft? If so, your insurance would have paid the $500 and the $750; if not, why should the rest of us pay for you?
Why is it . Towies . After seeing what they see. Dont wear seatbelts
Growing number of immigrants.
14 days is crazy , 30 days would be fair. Most people prob lose their cars to this place. Lots of $$ being made here.
I hate the way people deem those that can't afford to pay vehicle tax or have insurance dangerous drivers, If anything most are more cautious drivers as they don't want to draw attention to their situation and try to avoid being pulled over, Alot of that problem is caused by our Politicians having such high of fees just to use your vehicle, Maybe if registration (what we call vehicle tax in my Country) wasn't so expensive more could afford to pay it and wouldn't try skipping it. See this is how the system is, They hit you were it hurts most and you can't do anything about it but blindly comply or you loose your vehicle..Next they'll be trying to tax you just for walking or biking,even might try to charge a tax on the air we breathe, Oh they think up some BS reasoning behind it you can bet they'll try it, It's all a money game with them. Everything in life DON'T have to be taxed and Government don't need a cut in on everything.
In my experience, an awfully high percentage of traffic crashes involve some variety of vad registration/license/insurance. So much that it doesn't suggest they are more careful drivers, but that there's a reason for the lack of meeting legal requirements.
They ARE "dangerous drivers" by definition - why should everyone else pay because they don't want to?
@@John-G Not all are, Some are just folks working a job and having bills that they have to pay catch up on them, It happens, We're not perfect and we don't need lumped into a category that we ain't, Just cause someone missed a insurance payment or didn't renew that stupid plate sticker don't make them a danger, There's a diffrence from wreckless driving and just driving with this-that illegal cause of the unfairly high costs tacked on with it. Maybe if they didn't charge such high fees people could always afford to buy a stupid little sticker to slap on their back plate every year but in my State the cost is outrageous, Frankly they could just have it where you could fill out a form online to reregister yearly FREE but if they insist on charging for it there's no need it should be bout $150.00 :O.
@@PolizeiPaul Sorry, but ALL are, no exceptions - not for the tax / registration side which makes little or no difference to anyone else (apart from the taxpayers) but for the insurance side.
If you hit someone and you're not insured then IF they have full insurance and can claim on their own insurance all they lose is their no claims bonus. If they don't and all they have is Third Party or Third Party, Fire and Theft, though, then they have to pay for the damage YOU've caused, which could mean anything from losing their car to losing their job if they need it for work, to paying their own medical bills - if they can afford to. They're "folks working a job", trying to play "catch up" and make ends meet too, and you've just stopped that happening.
How much of a danger do you want them to be?
Listen, it is hard for EVERYONE. NO ONE WANTS TO PAY. But we do it anyways because that's the safe and legal thing. If I get in an accident with an uninsured driver, MY insurance has to pay. How is that fair to me??
Yank here. Does anybody know what driver Lee was actually saying?
Not very interesting.
You painted your front door the wrong colour so we are going have to impound your car.
First we take all the nice parts out, for what use, making money off of other people's misery
Why not aution cars off . Help homeless or people who need help
Many of these very old cars are unroadworthy, so the authorities do not want the cars to be returned to the roads anyway. As stated by the scrapper, the commercially valuable parts are recovered for resale. The rest of the car is of little value and is scrapped.
How does auctioning off old shitty cars help homeless people?
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Seems pretty ridiculous that his car gets stolen due to no fault of his own but yet he has to pay the towing and storage fees otherwise his car will be crushed
I'm sure he can contest it by some means.
If he's insured, as he should be, the insurance will pay.
This looks far too close to extortion to be comfortable with.
Thank goodness I only need to endure American extortion.
How come unclaimed cars are not auctioned off
In the US they would be. Consider that the UK has far less space. It's actually more advantageous not to have those cars on the road. Plus then people have to buy new cars. It's also a way to get junkers off the road.
I don’t agree with auctioning the property of others….unless used in serious crimes I think confiscation is wrong…
I agree with laws like insurance although insurance companies and their rates have become ridiculous….licensure, inspections etc are all reasonable and well justified
@@AreaCode757 At the same time they can only hold them for so long. In the US they are auctioned. In the UK they get crushed.
Because the crimnals will simply repurchase the vehicle at al low price, and commit more crimes.
Because they may not be roadworthy.
He is wearing a mask while he is on his own in the lorry and then takes it off when he is out chatting to people. What a joke 😂
On his own with a magic floating camera, obviously
On his own???