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- From: 13r43@math.ucrf.edu
- Subject: Re: Radar Detectors, and Radar Detector Detectors and TVs
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.161610.2890@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
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- References: <1992Jul27.081128.32@apricot.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:16:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.081128.32@apricot.co.uk> marcusj@apricot.co.uk (Marcus
- Jenkins) writes:
- >
- > >What are the penalties for operating a TV without a license?
- >
- > 400 pounds ($700 US ish), and, I believe, a criminal record.
-
- When I lived there, (in Coventry, 90miles norh of London) they also used to
- print the names of people so convicted in the local newspaper, partly as a
- warning to other people.
-
- I seem to recall that the detector vans were readily identifiable as such, and
- I guess this was in part to scare people who saw them on the street into buying
- a licence.
-