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Mechanic arrested for not giving up vehicle to angry customer
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Remember last week when we told you about a tuner shop in Florida that got stuck holding a $16,000 bill after customizing some broke guy's Toyota Celica? That shop is resolving its dispute through the courts and will likely end up selling the car to make its money back, but a mechanic in the U.K. named Darren Tandy recently found himself in a similar situation with a very different outcome. A customer came to pick up his Land Rover recently and refused to pay the agreed upon price of £1127 for the service work that Darren had done. At first the owner offered £950, then £850, and when Darren still refused to release his vehicle, the Rover owner called the local constabulary. Shockingly, the policeman who arrived on the scene actually told Darren he had to lower the price, and when he refused to accept £550 for the job, which didn't even cover the parts, he was arrested and thrown in jail. He spent three hours behind bars and promptly filed a complaint against the Northumbria Police, who performed a full investigation and found themselves free of any wrongdoing. Convenient, eh?
At least there's still some common sense in this country. Enjoy it while it lasts.
That is hard to believe living in this coutnry. here it would have resulted in a mechanics lien and be sent to civil court ;nothing to do with police except escort the customer from premises.
You're right. But we're talking about England, where people are arrested for self defense in their own homes, or for verbally insulting someone. I hope that this country never sinks to that point.
We had a similar situation when I worked in a garage, a business customer's account was overdue by some time, so the next time their truck came in for service, we refused to release it back to them untill they settled their outstanding bill.
they called the police, but they said they were powerless, and it was a civil matter, and we were entitled to withhold goods and services in lieu of payment, and the company would require to raise a civil action to sue us for the release of their truck.
They didn't, they tried to stand us off for a week, but they had to hire a replacement truck, and court action was gonna cost too much, so they settled in full.
This is the same country in which squatters, people living in other people's property like sheds and gardens, are not arrested for trespassing. Police tell the home owner it's a civil matter but they will arrest the home owner if he attacks the squatter.
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