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Default OT Totally, and a little bit rude... The side effects of fixingempty buildings...

Tim S wrote:
... is that TV Licensing cannot cope with the concept that you don't need a
licence when you don't have any TV apparatus.

Long story short - told them the situation by phone and in writing. Still
get reminders each month.

But this one really p*ssed me off;

http://www.dionic.net/tv/OfficialWarning.jpeg

[address redacted so pikeys don't raid my house hoping for tools, which
there aren't...]

So I sent them this:

(very very unsuitable for work and kids)

http://www.dionic.net/tv/Reply.jpeg


Won't do any good - but I needed some ventilation in the spleen area.

I'm normally such a reasonable person (ha!)

Cheers

Tim

PS

Am I going to prision now?


Hah. They did the same to me when I bought a TV for my mum.

the bloody shop sent *my* address to the TV people. As it happened, I
was in rented accom. pending the reconstruction of the house, so it was
highly amusing.

I figured the next tenant would get the men with detector vans.