NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/uk/misc/556

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From: [e-mail] (Frank K Bowles)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: TV licence authorities get wrists smacked
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 20 Nov 92 17:01:58 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (The Freak) writes:
 Oh,my poor heart bleeds for them,me thinks not.I,and quite proudly so,do not
|> own a television licence,mainly due to the fact that my television blew up
|> about a month ago.....its sods' law,especially when the new series of Have I
|> got News for You has begun its umpteen week run.Prior to this though,I still
|> didnt have a licence.I kept a television licence application form by the side
|> of my television,already filled out,and incase any welcome TV detector men
|> happened to call in,I would have simply said I had the form and was going
|> to post it tomorrow. Whether they would have believed me though i do not know..

So you steal television programmes paid for the rest of us and feel
proud about it?  Do you commit any other crimes - shoplifting,
vandalism, mugging...?


Frank

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