macgowan wrote: » Live in a student flat with no tv and recently got a warning in the post saying that the inspectors were aware that we have no tv licence and will soon be calling around to check it out. Just wondering what they can actually do if I refuse to let them in (purely to annoy them). Presumably they can't insist on being let in?
minidazzler wrote: » Leave out a load of odd sex toys and let them search, cover a box that looks like a TV with a Gimp suit so they have to lift it to see what looks like a TV from the outside.
pesy wrote: » the ***** came round our accom at college earlier this year! best solution.....dont answer the door!! house isnt in your name!! but...i like the gimp idea!
kumate_champ07 wrote: » tell them you're from Fiji and cant speak any english
JONJO THE MISER wrote: » You know i often wonder do tv license inspetors ever go around to areas like southill or moyross in limerick or rougher housing estates in Dublin, i think most people can answer that question.
pebbles21 wrote: » Remember years ago they came around Ballymun flats,poor fckers car got pelted out off it and he was next if he didnt get out of there pronto Never seen them up there again after that
Overheal wrote: » whats the penalty for not having your license?
NotSoDumbBlonde wrote: » Complete waste of money but if you're caught, you could end up in court and get a hefty fine.
NotSoDumbBlonde wrote: » I got stung recently after months, if not years, of avoiding the f*ckers. Somehow they were able to gain access to our apartment complex, which is like fort knox at the best of times. They would wander the corridors with clipboards and big smiles on their faces. I once had to pretend to put my key in the door of a neighbours apartment when one of them was lurking around waiting to pounce on me. When living in a previous apartment we actually received a summons due to not having a licence but seeing as the name on the summons was wrong (my first name and flat-mates surname) we simply ignored it. Anyway, one day not too long ago, there was a knock on my apartment door. No-one knocks, any callers will buzz from outside. So, i obviously assumed it was my OH and that he had forgotten his keys or something. But, being skeptical of all knocks, knowing the licence dudes were doing the rounds, I tip-toed to the door and peeked through the peephole. I couldn't see anyone there, so assumed the boyf had bent down to search for keys in his bag or something. I then said "Who's there?" and the person said "It's me". The CHEEK of him - i actually thought it was my boyf so i opened the door....and alas, it was Mr. Licence. His records, he said, showed that I didnt have a TV licence.......and I just didnt have the energy or face to pretend that I didnt live there, couldnt speak English, didnt own a TV......whatever.........so i ended up having to get a TV licence. Complete waste of money but if you're caught, you could end up in court and get a hefty fine.
flanum wrote: » ye wanna be a fierce ****in eejit to have a tv lcence..... seriosly tho.... what the **** are ye payin for? adver ****ig tisements? the day somebody calls to ask me for a licence.... ha ha !
