TV detector van..
Few days after moving into a new flat I go home from work to find a card had been put through the door from the TV license people. Telling me they had called round and detected that a television was being used at that address and they had no record of a license for said address. They were correct, just moved in had not had chance to get a license. Their detection equipment must be good since the televison was in a box and being used to support a box of kitchen utensils and a pot plant.
(standard deviant, Fri 24 Feb 2012, 16:50, 9 replies)

Every story I hear about
TV licencing 'enforcement' is negative.

They seem like a bunch of slimy little weasels.
(username failed moderation, Fri 24 Feb 2012, 16:53, closed)

That's because they are.

(Vigilante Man weeps because you're stupid., Fri 24 Feb 2012, 17:11, closed)

The worst part is
I pay for my licence and feel it goes a long way. Nothing against paying it. EVERYTHING against the Licencing wanker who turned up at my door many moons ago demanding over £100 (or whatever the amount is), from a 16 year old just because I was the one that answered the door.

Many years on I find this irritating.
( Bats, Fri 24 Feb 2012, 23:13, closed)

When I worked at the courts I saw a 16 year-old babysitter fined for watching an unlicensed TV.
If she didn't pay, and I have no idea if she did or not, she could have gone to prison. For babysitting.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Sat 25 Feb 2012, 9:29, closed)

The "detectors" are bullshit....
all they do is look for all the addresses with no licence and send letters, then call round on spec, cos every house has at least one TV, right?

My mum didn't have a TV for quite a few years, and used to get regular letters and visits, until she wrote them a snotty letter telling them to stop.

There are no magic vans, just the electoral roll and a bunch of cunts.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 24 Feb 2012, 23:14, closed)

The last time I had a TV, they had four channels. Yet I got these letters up until last year
...when I sent them a scathing letter demanding that they stop accusing me of criminal behaviour immediately, or I would get a solicitor onto them for harassment.

Haven't heard from them since.
(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Fri 24 Feb 2012, 23:59, closed)

licence office
just sends out letters regardless. I received one demanding full payment immediately when I was staying in halls. Ignored it till they sent someone round, at which point I pointed out that not only did I not have a TV, as a white teenage male it was unlikely that I was Mrs Jangahar.
(DonMorte Cake is a made up drug, Sat 25 Feb 2012, 15:57, closed)

That van once never visited me so they made me never pay for their UKTV adverts and product placement on WANKENDERS. Dum, dum dum, didder didder..

Seriously, they can't possibly detect fuck all signal from your address. It's Wanker's Hill near Bolton or where ever the fuck the nearest tower is..
(Hudekin ( . )( . ) - cos i can't use photoshop.., Sun 26 Feb 2012, 4:00, closed)

Similarly related...
Whilst I loathe the way TV liscening is enforced, I try to imagine that most of the people working for them are dispassionate about their job and only doing it to make ends meet.

So after moving to a new flat, informing the TV liscening company we had moved and no, we still don't have a TV. Then 3 months later re-applying that information online that I still didn't have a TV, the surprise visit by the inspector 6 months later was... well a surprise.

When he asked if he could come upstairs to check, I said he was welcome to by all means. He then replied "don't worry then, I can see you are willing to let me in so I'm sure you are telling the truth". Top notch investigation.
(TheASK, Mon 27 Feb 2012, 20:35, closed)