Car Nabbing

One of the things Jo and I have really been enjoying about living in Bayswater (and to a lesser extent, Greater London) is the sport of 'car nabbing'.

What makes the sport all the more entertaining is how seriously the attendants play the game. The uniformed parking attendants - so called 'Parking Police' - try to seize an illegally parked car and tag it with an Infringement notice before the owner of the car returns and can escape.
'Points' are scored - or rather deducted - if the car is tagged with the Infringement before the car is driven off (often via the attendant). If the owner of the car hasn't returned during the tagging process, then the car is deemed 'fair game' to the similarly uniformed 'Car Haulers' who literally lift the car from its park and either dump it in a compound or position it in an even more illegal position somewhere nearby. These Haulers do laps around the block waiting for a car to be tagged.
The 'Residents Only' parking and the proximity of good restaurants make our street a relative Mecca for both Parking Police and the Car Haulers.
Jo and I usually see a car being nabbed once every few days.

By way of introduction, I have uploaded a quick movie of a truck being tagged while the owner was sitting on the back offloading bricks to the house next door. Unfortunately the driver drove off before the truck was hauled. (Seeing the truck being hauled with the guy still on the back would have just been great - maybe tonight)