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« on: September 18, 2003, 12:04:54 PM »
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/09/18/offbeat.angle.grinder.reut/index.html (Pics in the link)

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Spandex-clad 'superhero' freeing cars on London streets
Thursday, September 18, 2003 Posted: 10:54 AM EDT (1454 GMT)


 
Angle Grinder Man stands behind his car-freeing tool.
 
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- He wears a baby-blue spandex jumpsuit and shiny gold panties, gloves, cape, boots and goggles. He wields a giant, metal-cutting circular power saw.

Who is Angle Grinder Man?

He is Britain's self-styled "first wheel-clamp and speed camera vigilante cum subversive superhero philanthropist entertainer type person." That's who.

For those not familiar with industrial machine tools, an angle grinder is the saw best suited to cutting through plates of steel, such as, say, the wheel clamps that authorities use to immobilize illegally parked cars in London.

And Angle Grinder Man offers his "free clamp-removal service" to "all good, decent law-unabiding people" who would rather fight back than pay to have their cars released.

All a clamped motorist has to do is call AGM's hotline and out comes the roadside rescue superhero to saw through the brace and release the car.

British newspapers love him. Taxi drivers are talking about him. And apparently he is for real.

His Web site shows him, sparks a-flying, carrying out an act of apparent criminal damage on a clamp to "liberate" a red saloon car on a London street.

 
Angle Grinder Man uses his angle grinder in this undated photo.  
He advertises his hotline at his Web site and since the press latched on to him, his voicemail box has been full.

Angle Grinder Man says his actions are a political protest against "the arrogant contempt that politicians hold for the people who put them in power."

But police say it is no joke. Even private clamp owners can press charges.

"What might seem a light-hearted gesture to some would be considered criminal damage to others," a spokesman for Scotland Yard said. "Any act of deliberate vandalism would be acted on by the police."

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« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2003, 12:32:50 PM »
ROFL!  Too skinny to be me!

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« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2003, 12:39:47 PM »
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http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=96446


Dang, beat by a squaddie even! :)

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« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2003, 12:48:21 PM »
Hey, if you can't beat 'em in the air, beat them in the BBS. :D

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« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2003, 03:00:13 PM »
That's great.  Hopefully he will cut down parking meters too.

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« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2003, 03:09:03 PM »
Rip day late and a doller short! for a guys who is on the boards as much as you im suprized you missed a post!:rofl
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« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2003, 03:11:12 PM »
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Rip day late and a doller short! for a guys who is on the boards as much as you im suprized you missed a post!:rofl


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« Reply #8 on: September 18, 2003, 03:28:45 PM »
MAKE SURE YOU HIGHLIGHT IT TOO!!! AND START ME OFF WITHA FEW CHECK MAKES TOO!:D
^"^Nazgul^"^    fly with the undead!
Jaxxo got nice tata's  and Lyric is Andre the giant with blond hair!