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- From: MrEd@GreenAcres
- Subject: Re: Radar Detectors, and Radar Detector Detectors and TVs
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 04:58:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.204831.28487@news.columbia.edu>
- gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) writes:
- >
- > The BBC does this in the UK with detector vans. I remember when I was a kid
- > and someone told me that in England you need to have a license to own a TV
- > set, and I said, "Oh gimme a break. What do they do, drive around in little
- > vans to see who's paid their TV bill?" And it wasn't until I went there
- > for the first time that I learned that that's exactly what they do!
- >
- yes, but they don't just drive round aimlessly. Firstly, I believe if s store
- sells a TV set in England, they have to notify the authorities who they sold
- it to and give them an address - and you can bet that if the buyer doesn't buy
- a licence, they'll have detector vans outside their door fairly soon.
- Secondly, they check on people who don't renew their licences.
- Let your licence expire and pretty soon you'll have vans cruising your street.
-
- BTW can they differentiate between black & white and colour sets ? - a b&w
- licence used to cost a lot less than a colour one, and I'm curious as to
- whether buying a b&w licence would be enough to keep them off your back
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