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Yeah. My father in law had the same experience. He once took an enforcement person into his house and insisted they go through the house together and conduct
by seanhunter 6y ago
Yeah. My father in law had the same experience. He once took an enforcement person into his house and insisted they go through the house together and conduct an exhaustive search of all the places a TV could be. "Perhaps it's in the cistern of the toilet? Let's look!...Not there? Perhaps it's in the bread bin..." etc etc
It is really bad the way they do this, and having seen the threatening letters they send out they could be very frightening. The letters were on the lines of "Our detectors have found that you have a TV and you have to pay the license fee or we'll send bailiffs around, take you to court etc", and the one I received once (when i too didn't have a TV) was printed on red paper.
- 908B64B197 6y agoCan you imagine having someone harassing an elderly person to get in house without a warrant here in America? And that person to be paid and hired as a civil servant, in a completely unionized job with a pension fund? If that's not the definition of a job program and how the welfare state has gone wrong I don't know what is.
- willtim 6y agoI suspect the issue is partly caused by outsourcing the enforcement to private contractors and setting targets!
- 908B64B197 6y agoSo they aren't even government employee. It's just some random person trespassing on your property. I assume, of course, that the burden of proving you don't have a TV falls on the citizen and not these government-paid contractors.