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Posted: 28-06-2013 12:20 Post subject:

I gather that TV Licencing - actually a number of companies tasked with policing the collection of licence fees - are also successfully pressuring Youtube to remove videos which show their inspectors ambushed by householders and - very recently - this satirical animation:

The animation is now hosted on Liveleak Smile

Posted: 28-06-2013 18:50 Post subject:

They forgot the bit where the householder speaks to the goon from the bathroom window and the goon refuses to identify himself and tries to trick them into coming down and opening the door.

Also the one where he threatens to go away and come back with the police and then starts going on about how serious an offense it is when they call bullshit on him.

That vid was pretty kind to the goon, really!

Posted: 28-06-2013 21:52 Post subject:

Ok so has anyone actually seen a tv detector van?

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Posted: 28-06-2013 22:37 Post subject:

The Freedom of Information Act has been used to establish that detector-van evidence has never once been used in court. I heard a BBC twonk on Radio 4 a couple of weeks ago claim that there was no growing movement of licence refusniks, which is counter-intuitive in the context of the proliferation of sites carrying information about the true extent of the powers inspectors have.

Chancers are likely to gobble all this down and still be stupid enough to actually watch the box! I suspect the inspectors pay merely token calls on me since I have no satellite dish or fibre-optic cable. If they bother to look, there isn't even a down-lead from the ancient aerial on the chimney stack! The nasty letters continue, however. Razz

Posted: 11-07-2013 01:03 Post subject:

TV Detector vans are actually a cover for the Men in Black. Their vans detect domestic transmissions entering and exiting our solar system on a stronger than usual basis. Ever seen a dish on a house that's far bigger than it needs to be? Hmmmmmmmmm.

Posted: 11-07-2013 12:54 Post subject:

I once received a letter from the TV licensing people saying that I had to make sure I had a license. Since I didn't have a TV or anything else that could pick up TV signals I ignored it. A few weeks later they sent me an aggressive letter saying they were coming round my flat to take issue with the fact I didn't have a license. I sent them one back telling them, in rather less polite terms, that they could stick it up their arse.

They never sent me another letter after that.