Monday 20 April 2009

How could I have overlooked this one???

From The Crewe Chronicle:

A FATHER returning to his Crewe home with his baby found it had been repossessed and the locks changed in an amazing blunder by Chelsea Building Society.

Matthew Brooks had just picked up one-year-old Loren from the childminder when he spotted a notice on the door of his house in Benjafield Court. "... we’d been broken into because the Chelsea Building Society had got the wrong house," said Mr Brooks. "I was left in the cold and the rain with a little baby."

The locks on the house had been drilled to gain access and had then been changed. Mr Brooks said the repossession order was a voluntary one for a house further up the street, and the fault was not with the locksmith or the estate agent but with the building society.


Via NTDWA.

9 comments:

Witterings from Witney said...

MW this is not the first time. Years ago I was empoyed, during the last property slump, by a company that dealt in repossessions for banks and building societies. We had to attend with the bailiff and locksmiths to secure the property etc. On entering one, having drilled out the front door lock, begun 'draining down' and commenced removing goods it suddenly struck our attendee that there was a lot of cricket memorabilia on show and yup! you guessed it - the building society had given us, the bailiffs et all the wrong address!!!

Witterings from Witney said...

Apols Should have said 'employed' and also 'country and county cricket memorabilia'

banned said...

Let's not forget that Labour have recently given bailiffs the power to break into your home in your absence, or physically restrain you should you happen to be in, to pursue of an alleged debt.

Dr Evil said...

How can a bailiff restrain you with an axe in his head?

Lola said...

I like bailiffs when people owe me money. I don't like them when they harras people who owe other people money. I especially loathe them when they are employed by banks and building societies, particularly when someone is in 'dispute' with the lender and they,using every legal dodge do thier utmost to pressure and confuse those who alledgedly owe them money.

I also think that New Labour's rule change is to make it easier to deal with civil disobedience by the usually law abiding as their fury with this government boils over.

Ed said...

No offense WFW, but are criminal proceedings possible in these cases? e.g. breaking and entering, criminal damage, theft?

IMO an appropriate employee of the creditor (e.g. the local bank manager) should have to physically attend every repossession. They would be criminally liable for any mistakes. A police officer should also be required to attend, to witness the actions of all concerned, and to do any restraining necessary rather than allow bailiffs to do it.

Lola said...

With your indulgence I'd just like to extend my previous post.

I run a 'regulated FS business. basiclaly that means I am at the beck and call of the witless FSA etc. And I have to give them personal undertakings. Well, as I gradually withdraw form FS over the next 5 to 8 years I am going to make myself a man of straw in anticiaption of the next load of free loading spurious mis-selling bollocks arriving.

In fact, were it not for my love for my family and their happiness I would have already withdrawn from any form of possession or asset in my name and committed myself to a full program of social dosobedience and general awkwardness.

WV - skinty! You couldn't make it up!!

Mark Wadsworth said...

I normally delete spam, but there might be other readers who actually find that one useful, so fair do's.

AntiCitizenOne said...

Thanks Maria.