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On Monday 12 November 2007 11:18, Steph Foster wrote: > Don't get me started on TV Licencing ! > > I am one of the apparently few people in this country that don't watch > TV but I kept getting threatening emails from TV Licencing saying I > would be visited and questioned under caution re PACE 1984 > > In the end I rang the TV Licencing people , spoke to a supervisor and > put a verbal rocket up his ass ! > > I told them that I considered their letters to constitute harassment and > that if I received any further letters, having duly notified them of my > not having a TV, I would take legal action. > > It has been blissfully peaceful since then, not even a visit from a > licence inspector to verify my assertion of not having a tv. > > Btw, are people aware that TV licence inspectors only have an implied > right of entry to your home ? > > You can lawfully refuse them entry and make them return with a lawfully > executed search warrant. > > Sorry for the rant but I hate jumped-up snotty little oiks that think > they can push people around :-) I went without a TV for about four years. I did enjoy their visits - I'd let them in to part of the house, hold them almost prisoner while asking them about their rights, and then send them away again after sympathising with them over what a shitty job they had and normally managed to make them feel nearly suicidal about the futility of life in general and not just their job. They never bothered to get a warrant but I did live just across the road from where the TV vans hold up so I guess they were caught in some Kafkaesque beaurocracy where they new I didn't have a telly but had to come and visit. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html