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!!! Warning to TV Licence Inspectors !!!

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    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,484 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    abaddon_ire wrote: »
    Nope. And the notion they can detect anything is baloney. It is simple scare tactics.

    As a graduate in that particular area of expertise, I know that the detector vans and such are utter rubbish with no value other than to scare suckers. It's utter rubbish, and I speak as a recipient of years of training and practical experience. Detector vans are for the gullible. Hand held devices? Gimme a break.

    Should I wish to have a TV on the premises, the chance of it being detected are precisely zero. Hell, were I of a contrarian mind, I could broadcast signals that would mess them up.

    There were TV detector vans in the past. With a radio receiver which picked up the emissions from nearby TV sets which were switched on. But that was only useful as a method to establish licence records when just a small percentage of houses in each street had a TV set.

    When TV sets became commonplace and a big majority of houses had a licence it was more practical to send an inspector to check at addresses without a licence.

    The TV licence started in 1962 and by the 1980's TV ownership was pretty well universal so the detector vans had a short shelf life. But they definitely did exist and they did work with detecting analogue TV sets.


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    zetalambda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 822 ✭✭✭zetalambda


    What the fcuk is a transvestite license?


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    #334
    moc moc a moc
    Registered Users Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭moc moc a moc


    Titzon Toast wrote: »
    How can he obtain a search warrant without a name to put on it?

    It's a bluff. The guards have better things to do with their time than searching people's houses for televisions, and any judge will know this.


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