The wheel clamper, the tyre, and the gym bunniesSARAH ROBERTS/stuff.co.nz Te Atatū MP Phil Twyford earlier labelled Elite Parking's actions as "predatory". SKYKIWI MEDIA Auckland man Liu chose to give up his tyre rather than pay a wheel clamping fine in a parking lot monitored by Elite Parking. READ MORE:* Car wheel clamped while mother left stranded* Henderson business cuts contract with wheel clampers* AA says ban wheel clampingSo he made a counter-offer, he would replace the tyre of his car and the clamper could keep it. This prompted the wheel clamper to call some of his own friends to the scene. "Phil Twyford says he has made his views about wheel clamping clear and they haven't changed," a spokeswoman for the now Government minister said on Saturday.

Source: Stuff December 16, 2017 16:01 UTC