On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:09:05 +0000, Tim S wrote:

The only special info they have is a list of current licenses and a list of
reception apparatus sold by the bigger traders (you did tell the bloke your
correct address when you paid cash for that telly, didn't you?).

No, not even when I bought a new one just the other day.

It's Customs & Excise you need to worry about - they do have special powers
that make the police look gay, for a limited and specific set of suspected
infringments.

The last one of them got invited into the house and was handed a paint
brush on the night we moved into a house. He was after the previous
owner who had done a runner leaving behind huge debts. We let him go
after he'd finished a wall

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