On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 10:07:41AM -0000, Stephen Rowles wrote:
> > They seem unable to believe that some people actually don't have a TV. My
> > friend deliberately never replies to the letters and makes them come
> > round.
> >
> > I think the last time they did and he refused to let them in. He told them
> > he didn't have a TV. The investigator challenged him "but you've got a TV
> > aerial." I love his response "I've got a pint of milk in the fridge.
> > Doesn't mean I've got a cow in the back garden."
>
> That is really weird... before I was married my fiancee lived in a flat
> and had a TV/Video combo, but no TV license, she just used to get video's
> out of the Library and watch them. The first time the letter came she
> simply replied with "I have a TV, but it is not tuned and I don't watch
> TV" and never got pestered again :)
>
> Will be interesting to find out how well that works, I intend to do the
> same thing in the new year (after recording lots of Christmas telly)
ISTR this is what they ask (tell) you to do; I personally just object to
having to go to any effort to tell them that I'm not commiting a crime.
(When I was living in halls in my first year at uni, they sent
threatening letters along the lines of "you don't have a licence! that's
illegal!", with small print at the bottom saying "of course, if you
don't have a TV you don't need a licence".)
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