As is so often the case, the trickiest part came when he had to explain himself to his family.
"I got kind of a lukewarm response," said the masked Englishman who calls himself Angle-Grinder Man and who has been trawling London for four months dressed in a homemade superhero outfit, complete with gold lam� underpants and cape, removing the security boots from people's illegally parked cars.
"Any parent who gets a phone call from his son saying, 'Oh, you might see me in the newspaper; I'm a superhero wheel-clamp vigilante' - it might take them a little while to formulate their views," he said in an interview.
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