>>legitimate debt collectors...
Ever since one clamped my leased company car as an asset (a big bank's car) because it happened to be on a factory car park of a business that owed money I have no time for them and the idiotic coppers* that just took their word without checking.
*Not all by a long shot, but these two in Leeds took the biscuit. I was telling them the car had nothing to do with the company, the directors of the company were telling them that I was a visitor and the car wasn't theirs and whats more the lease company on the phone told them that they owned the car. The debt collectors told the cops that they had a right to anything on the property which was a total lie** and the cops believed them!
They were threatening to put my car on a low loader and take it away and I was 6 hours from home, so I sat in the car. Arrested for obstruction of a bailiff.
They just wouldn't listen and a lawyer from the Leeds office had to turn up at the nick to sort everything out pointing out that I couldn't legally obstruct a bailiff that was acting unlawfully.
Thank goodness for the very apologetic Super including biscuits or it would have been a claim for false arrest.
**not only because they didn't have rights to anything the company didn't own, but before the creditor's case went to court, I had put in place an all asset debenture including a fixed and floating charge over all assets meaning that everything was claimed by the bank anyway as a preferential creditor.
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