Relevant offers Roading contractors working on a New Plymouth street fell foul of New Plymouth's resident clamper yesterday. The contractors found their work truck clamped up, after they moved it into a car park at the request of a shopkeeper. Miss Paisley, owner of antique shop Fourtyseven, on the corner of Egmont St and King St, said she had asked the contractors to move the truck from the loading zone outside her shop as there was little other parking in the area at the time. "When I came back they had moved and were being clamped," she said. The contractors were obviously their doing a job and it was ridiculous that they had been clamped. The contractors had parked on the left side of the gravel lot between Judd Opticians and Fourtyseven in King St and were working less than 10 metres away when their truck was clamped by Egmont Security's Daniel Clout. Andrew Judd of Judd Opticians said though the truck was illegally parked, the contractors would have been fine if they had parked it on the other side of the lot where the clamper was not contracted to monitor the parking. The contractors had an arsenal of tools which could have been used to remove the clamps, including a concrete saw. They considered using a digger to shift the truck to the other side of the car park but were too worried about the legal ramifications of such a move. Senior Constable Toni Haggart showed up and told