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Gatwick Rogue Parking – Exposed |
The Airport Parking Meet and Greet Con – Exposed by BBC Watchdog in February 2007:
A BBC Watchdog investigation team revealed that Pink Meet and Greet Parking, having promised and sold ‘safe and secure’ Gatwick meet and greet airport parking, in fact only parked the vehicle in a secure car park for two days out of five. The vehicle in their possession was driven at over 100 miles per hour and was left overnight at the side of a road, and for two nights was dumped outside a supermarket.
Thanks to a tracking device which was fitted to the vehicle the exact locations of where the car was parked were recorded, as were the speeds the vehicle travelled – in excess of 100 miles an hour, twice.
A separate investigation revealed the following illegal activity carried out by Pink Meet and Greet Parking:
Undercover Operators call Pink Meet and Greet Parking. Their call is answered by a man, only answering as Chas who demands £35 cash payment, on Pink taking delivery of the vehicle, for the 24 hours parking.
At 2pm, they are met at Gatwick Airport’s North Terminal by Pink employee, Chas, a man in his 50s who is dressed in scruffy clothing, heavily tattooed with cropped hair, collects their £26,000 Saab convertible.
Chas fills in some cursory paperwork, assuming the Undercover Operators that it would be stored securely.
Instead of boarding a plane, the Undercover Operators follow Chas of Pink Meet and Greet parking who promptly drove the Saab to James Watt Way in Crawley, outside Gatwick.
The Saab is parked next to a busy mobile burger van and left overnight.
The following day, the vehicle was collected by another man and driven back to Gatwick Airport.
When challenged on the exposed parking a Pink Meet and Greet Parking representative commented “I don’t know why your reporter’s car was left on a public road. Normally we drive the cars to Searles Yard in Horsham, which is a secure compound, and leave them there if it is only a one-day booking.”
Local resident, and chairman of the Court Lodge Residents’ Association in Horley, Surrey, reports that his neighbourhood is regularly flooded with cars, left abandoned for days and weeks on end, all of which are parked on public roads. Commenting on illegal Gatwick rogue parking he says, “I have seen cars left with the keys put on the wheel arch and paperwork left on the passenger seat. We have great sympathy for the owners who have no idea their cars are here and unprotected.”
Pink Meet and Greet Parking have since ceased trading. |
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