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# Yeah, impressive enough
but there's no Blue Peter badge.
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 22:02, archived)
# No free entry into the Liverpool Maritime Museum for him!
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 22:04, archived)
# I'm really cheesed off.
I won a Blue Peter badge when I was the tender age of 9 and the first Mr Space Bunny kept it amongst many of my other prized possessions. Now I find I can't get another from eBay or the BBC because of fraud. Fraud? It's a Blue Peter badge FFS not bullion.
(I helped save b3ta! wuffle, the b3ta bunny 's flea collar isn't working on, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 22:06, archived)
# I would argue that it's not fraud for someone who genuinely earned one and lost it.
It is fraud on the grounds that to use it to get free entry is 'Obtaining services by deception', as the badge represents the fact that you are a member of a club that is entitled to free entry. However, regardless of whether you have lost the original badge or not, you are still a member of said club and thus are perfectly legally allowed free entry to said museums.

I know of no case of a person who legitimately earned one and lost it being prosecuted for using a second one that they acquired. I've heard rumours of cases of people who never earned one to start with being prosecuted (although no one seems able to quote specific cases).
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 22:38, archived)
# The Beeb are supposed to have a record of every badgeholder who ever wrote in / appeared on the show.
But I was neither I was one of a huge crowd at the local railway sheds there to watch the BP team name an old restored train. I had written an essay which won a local schools compo and got my badge that way. This was wayyyyy back mind.
(I helped save b3ta! wuffle, the b3ta bunny 's flea collar isn't working on, Tue 12 Jan 2010, 22:48, archived)