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Tue 05 May 2004All the Rage4: Clamping rage What is it? You've been running out all day to stick money in the meter and reckon all is well until 6 p.m. Wrong. When you get to the car you realise you have miscalculated - and within a minute of the meter running out a team of highly skilled clampers, trained to lie in wait for people like you, has fastened another yellow wheel lock on your car.They are just sticking that alarming "Stop, Do Not Attempt to Remove!" sticker on the window when you arrive, panting, with only five minutes to collect your child from the crèche/pick up the dry-cleaning/drive your sick grandmother to hospital. For the third time this week you shell out €80 for the crime of being a bit forgetful. Clampers? More like Black and Tans.