TV Licence inspectors...

macgowan · 07-09-2009 01:40AM #1

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?

j1smithy · 07-09-2009 01:46AM

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?

They'll come back with a warrant to search the place. If you've no tv you're better off letting them in for a look round. I mean why be a prick when you don't have to?

Besides afterwards you can go buy a tv and you won't have to worry about hearing from them.

Rabies · 07-09-2009 01:46AM

Tell then you receive signals via your tin foil hat.

Wagon · 07-09-2009 01:47AM

Use the oppurtunity to kick them hard.

minidazzler · 07-09-2009 01:49AM

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.

Schism · 07-09-2009 01:52AM

Don't you see? You won't have a choice.

The television told me that the tv license inspector is a smooth talking unoffensive looking middle aged man, he'll turn your knees to jelly with a deft wave of his hand convincing you that he's not the tv inspector you're looking for.

Once inside he'll carefully plant a 14' 'television' in your kitchen and write you up for having no license. I'm just warning you because no matter what you tell the judge that crafty devil of an inspector just preaches that he's heard it all before... and he keeps getting away with it.

JONJO THE MISER · 07-09-2009 01:53AM

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?

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.

Alexl · 07-09-2009 01:55AM

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.

Literally crying with laughter!!!!

Leave a DVD player below the tv socket, theres no DVD player license is theer???

Professey Chin · 07-09-2009 02:23AM

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.

Or get a real gimp and when the inspector comes in start talking to the gimp telling him that the inspectors his new friend

Jesus Wept · 07-09-2009 02:32AM

Have the gimp whine about being subjected to Fair City.

curry-muff · 07-09-2009 02:32AM

They send that to everyone and check very few of the houses they send to

pesy · 07-09-2009 02:33AM

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!

That_Guy · 07-09-2009 02:35AM

Bring him into your house to look around and take off all your clothes and caress him.

These tv licence inspectors may have heard it all..... but have they seen it all.

blindpilot · 07-09-2009 02:35AM

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!

Exactly dont answer you door. Best form of defense from them.

kumate_champ07 · 07-09-2009 02:36AM

tell them you're from Fiji and cant speak any english

j1smithy · 07-09-2009 02:39AM

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

tell them you're from Fiji and cant speak any english

Weren't you told they've heard all the excuses, and none of them work.

martyboy48 · 07-09-2009 02:42AM

Ask him if he's hungry!!!
http://www.gizmag.com/go/7947/

That_Guy · 07-09-2009 02:48AM

I'd actually let the inspector take my tv. Why bother paying for terrible programming like Play TV and the brand new Late Late with that eejit Tubridy?

I'd rather watch cum dry on a wall that I've whacked off against to be honest.

pebbles21 · 07-09-2009 03:00AM

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.

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

That_Guy · 07-09-2009 03:12AM

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

Aye, cos they know they can't realistically afford a tv.

Overheal · 07-09-2009 03:25AM

whats the penalty for not having your license?

curry-muff · 07-09-2009 03:35AM

Overheal wrote: »

whats the penalty for not having your license?

Castration

flanum · 07-09-2009 03:42AM

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 !

flanum · 07-09-2009 03:58AM

hey op, i got ur surname too!! except not mac... just mc!

NotSoDumbBlonde · 07-09-2009 04:44AM

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.

Jesus Wept · 07-09-2009 04:57AM

NotSoDumbBlonde wrote: »

Complete waste of money but if you're caught, you could end up in court and get a hefty fine.

Personally I'm more worried about ThE ShAmE!!!!!

cuppa · 07-09-2009 05:06AM

spongers

flanum · 07-09-2009 05:07AM

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.

What kind of a cutn does that for a living??

mikemac · 07-09-2009 06:12AM

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.

I wonder would he try this in a rough flat complex?
Not a chance! I'd say there are areas in every town and city that a license inspector will never, ever check.

Hope you asked him for ID

NotSoDumbBlonde · 07-09-2009 06:21AM

Course I did - and yep he had a nice shiny ID card. In fairness to him he was a nice enough bloke, even though I felt like kneeing him in the you-knows!

SV · 07-09-2009 06:42AM

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 !

When you sober up you're gonna feel like a right twat.

TV Licence inspectors...

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