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Getting harassed my TV license inspector

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,984 ✭✭✭✭Lump


    Of course they can stop it..... just say you're being robbed!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 83 ✭✭chamar


    Well I bought a tv license today so I won't be going to court anytime soon. It is unfair on all of us though - RTE radio is appalling, RTE television is appalling. They get corporate sponsorship for half their programs and NEVER stop advertising (particularly on the radio). It galls me to think I am helping to pay for Lucy Kennedy to photograph sharks in SA, that awful Blaithnaid woman & 600,000 a year to Pat Kenny. Not to mention Gaybo is still on the payroll for doing nothing. Still, at least he was good.

    I would like to see only one channel with no ads that showed good programming. The vast majority of what is broadcast is crap!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 888 ✭✭✭themole


    humanji wrote:
    If you're renting doesn't the owner have to get the license? When I was in college, we rented an apartment. The inspector came along and we told him we rented, and didn't know if we had a license (which we didn't). He said it was ok, he'd get in touch with the owners.

    The user of the TV has to pay the license.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 888 ✭✭✭themole


    apperently in america theres no actually law on being made made tax

    Not quiet correct.

    Apparently Income Tax is against the US constitution. This does not affect other forms of tax however.

    There was a film recently about this, can't remember the name.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭muckwarrior


    I don't have a license and don't plan on getting one either. As far as I see there's no way they can prove I have a TV. I'm not gonna let any inspector cυnt into my house unless they're accompanied by a cop and a search warrant. Also, despite what they'd like you to think, I'm also reliably informed that they don't know whether or not you have an active cable connection (theoretically they may have access to this info but there's no system linking it together). Also there's no way I'd ever give my real name so they can send as many threatening letters to "John Smith" as they like!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    chamar wrote:
    Well I bought a tv license today so I won't be going to court anytime soon. It is unfair on all of us though - RTE radio is appalling, RTE television is appalling. They get corporate sponsorship for half their programs and NEVER stop advertising (particularly on the radio). It galls me to think I am helping to pay for Lucy Kennedy to photograph sharks in SA, that awful Blaithnaid woman & 600,000 a year to Pat Kenny. Not to mention Gaybo is still on the payroll for doing nothing. Still, at least he was good.

    I would like to see only one channel with no ads that showed good programming. The vast majority of what is broadcast is crap!


    all in your opinion of course


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭Nightwish


    I've never paid for a tv licence in the 5 years I lived in Dublin. We got threatening letters every week in the last house I lived in, but they just went in the bin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,929 ✭✭✭Raiser


    sudzs wrote:
    What vans????? :confused:

    I know of a group of lads living in a flat in Limerick who had the TV License man on their case. They were advised [by some ingenious idiot] to wrap their TV in tinfoil to deflect the TV sensing technology as used by the lads in the TV License van.

    - And it actually worked - in a way..........In covering the TV they also covered the vents which had been placed strategically during the Telly design phase to allow any built up heat to escape. The TV broke and was thrown in a skip, before they diverted enough money from their Dutch Gold funds the Gardaí arrived with a warrant and searched their flat........case closed :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    lol, that is just brilliant and idiotic all at the same time


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    themole wrote:
    The user of the TV has to pay the license.

    Cool, score one for the little guy! :D
    I don't have a license and don't plan on getting one either. As far as I see there's no way they can prove I have a TV. I'm not gonna let any inspector cυnt into my house unless they're accompanied by a cop and a search warrant. Also, despite what they'd like you to think, I'm also reliably informed that they don't know whether or not you have an active cable connection (theoretically they may have access to this info but there's no system linking it together). Also there's no way I'd ever give my real name so they can send as many threatening letters to "John Smith" as they like!


    Well it's fairly easy to get the name of someone staying in a house (as simple as asking a neighbour or postman. And if anyone has ever had a tv license in the place before, then they'll assume you still have one. And finally, they'll come down a hell of a lot harder on you if you piss them off.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 888 ✭✭✭themole


    Also there's no way I'd ever give my real name so they can send as many threatening letters to "John Smith" as they like!
    Aren't most of the tv license letters addressed to "the occupant"?

    It is not that hard to find out if you have a TV or not.

    In my house we got a license because one of the lads was getting a bit worried about it. Two days after we got it an inspector called around, one of the lads answered the door but didn't know where the license was. The inspector said his list wouldn't have been updated yet so he said he would come back again if we didn't have one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 156 ✭✭Deflector


    LicenCe.

    Bloody hell.
    I've heard of taking a lead from an OP, but this thread just takes it to a new level.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,607 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    I'd be a bit concerned about myself if I ever had to use the phrase "my TV licence inspector" as opposed to "the TV licence inspector". He probably uses the phrase "my nemesis" if that helps.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,119 ✭✭✭muckwarrior


    themole wrote:
    Aren't most of the tv license letters addressed to "the occupant"?
    Yes but the court summons has to be issued to a specific person, i.e. the person who answers the door when the inspector calls. As I recall the last time a bunch of TV licenCe (happy now) cases came to court a large proportion of them were thrown out as the person the summons was issued to no longer resided at the address (or most probably never did).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 83 ✭✭chamar


    Well, he hasn't come back yet but on reflection, I really think he was OTT on Tuesday night. I mean, the man buzzed the buzzer constantly for about 10 minutes and somebody must have let him in because the next thing I knew there was this almight banging on the door with cries of 'I know you're in there'. I mean, what's next? A big axe through one of the panels with the guy screaming 'HERE'S JOHNNY!!'.?? (http://www.best-horror-movies.com/images/The-shining-wendy-with-ax.jpg)

    I got the license but there is no way in hell I will ever have an interaction with that man.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,388 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    Good ol' Jack :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    chamar wrote:
    Well, he hasn't come back yet but on reflection, I really think he was OTT on Tuesday night. I mean, the man buzzed the buzzer constantly for about 10 minutes and somebody must have let him in because the next thing I knew there was this almight banging on the door with cries of 'I know you're in there'. I mean, what's next? A big axe through one of the panels with the guy screaming 'HERE'S JOHNNY!!'.?? (http://www.best-horror-movies.com/images/The-shining-wendy-with-ax.jpg)

    I got the license but there is no way in hell I will ever have an interaction with that man.

    couldnt he be done for harrassment?


  • Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,200 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    If you got the licence, he may not be back (after looking this up, licenSe is also sort of correct, though probably used more in USA).

    It seems his work with you is done. You have got what he wanted you to get! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭qwertplaywert


    and so the cycle continues


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,342 ✭✭✭OfflerCrocGod


    I wish RTE was sold off so we could dump the licence (license doesn't trigger the spell checker btw so I'd say that's why people used that spelling :)).


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,925 ✭✭✭RainyDay


    Do we really want TV3 to be the standard of news/current affairs coverage on Irish TV? I reckon the Leas Cross Prime Time special was worth the price of the RTE licence on its own.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 960 ✭✭✭:|


    cormie wrote:
    I moved into a new place that had a tv, but who needs TV when you have broadband, so I threw it into the shed. Is this good enough not to pay the license?
    do you watch it on the net, how?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,859 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    :| wrote:
    do you watch it on the net, how?

    Well, not live tv, but anything worth watching on tv is likely to pop up online on the likes of alluc.org!


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