Hello, I'm here from TV Licensing...

>Hello, I'm here from TV Licensing, we are about to file a warrant to have the police come in your house and see if you own a television that receives live broadcast.

How is this absurdity a reality? A bong is a criminal for watching tv?

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you can do my dad did: "fuck off, and if i ever see you again i'll cut your head off"

bin that knife

Your Dad sounds like a cool guy

*do like my dad did

>inb4 illiterate

no Abdullah that is bad thing, bad

he actually is. he is based, hates immigrants and doesn't take shit from anyone

you're more likely to get arrested for calling someone a nigger on twitter than getting done for dodging the tv license. (which is much worse)

Most old people still pay it because they're dumb and they always have, they see it as a service like cable.

But if you literally say 'I don't watch tv sorry' and shut the door in their face they can't do anything, everyone i know does this.

Today a guy comes by to destroy my TV's ability to receive TV signal, just so I don't have to pay this shit.
I literally have to destroy my own property to avoid even more tax.

It doesn't quite work like this.

If the TV license man comes knocking at the door you simply tell them the following:

"Am I obliged to answer your questions?"

Then tell them firmly that you revoke their right of access to your door, and slam the door in their face.

It's a scam, they don't actually have any real power.

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This video shows that a court warrant was issued. Maybe details are being missed in this situation, but it seems like if you refuse searches enough Licensing can request a warrant.

Don't answer your door to anyone you don't know or hasn't arranged to knock.
This stops all pests and save lots of money.

>having a TV
Why?

what if one really does not watch the big bong channel but uses his telly for something else like a pc?

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Because they are cheaper than big monitors.

I don't know if it's the same in Britain, but here you have to pay if your TV has the ability to receive a TV signal. Doesn't matter if you don't use it at all.

NO LOISENSE?!?!

BIN THAT FOOKIN TEE VEE YOU CUNT

cant you put a plastic cover over the plug or something

>it seems like if you refuse searches enough Licensing can request a warrant.
the Licence people have no right to access your home, but they can request the police gain a search warrant to access your home on the suspicion that you have an unlicenced TV. the licence guy would turn up with the police and can only enter after the police have entered.
it's not an arrest warrant, but a warrant allowing them to see if you have a tv.
it's no big deal to have a search warrant issued if you don't have a tv, but should be avoided by telling them you dn't have a tv. if you have a tv and the police search your home and find it, you get fined about £1000 i think.

>A bong is a criminal for watching tv?
no, a bong is a criminal for watching th BBC without a license
you don't have to pay if you never watch
and why would I?
I already pay for broadband, which pays for everything else
fuck the BBC and fuck TV licences

you either need a digital receiver to receive free-to-air tv channels (sometimes some tvs have these inbuilt) or you have cable/satellite tv receiver. if you have any of these you need a licence.
if you just have internet you don't need one, but you "aren't allowed" to access BBC iplayer to watch live or streamed tv shows.

10/10 would fuck.

I understand it's not an arrest warrant but it seems ludicrous that they have the ability to enter my domain and commit a search and or seizure for something so petty.

No, they really try everything to get you to pay the tax. I wanted to cut off the plug, but that wouldn't be sufficient either.

wanna meet that dad

The police can literally make up any reason to enter your house or steal your shit, easily here - less easily but still possible in burger land.

google civil forfeiture

>Tfw bongs have been bullying my country over and over on Sup Forums
>England is deteriorating faster into degeneracy than possibly imagineable.
>Soon Sweden 2.0 if not worse.
Shouldnt have bullied you bongs.

>dutchie couldn't handle the banter
Faggot.

They can ask for a warrant, but I've never known them to actually do it. If you refuse to speak to them they just fuck off, as the other user said. I haven't bought a licence for over ten years.

We have civil forfeiture as well.

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SAVE A PENNY, BIN THAT TELLY

This is not Saudi Arabia fucking meathead

>wear traditional mudslime attire
>answer door
>”tv license blah blah blah”
>yell snack bar and other illegible things
>accuse of racism
>slam door shut

doesn't work if you're white lad, and most tv license people are muslims now as it's a shit tier job nobody wants.

I guess banter is your coping mechanism to deal with the part and parcel.

Nah, banter is banter.
complaining endlessly is our coping mechanism

>1984 + 33
>watching tv

That little bastard will hypnotize you if you watch it for long periods of time. Don't be a crab!

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>a warrant

Yeah that isn't going to happen.

So, on the day of the rope. The TV licensing guy is in the top 100?

yeah, right after the go compare guy

STOP RIGHT THERE M8
I SEE YOU ARE CARRYING A PEN WHICH IS ILLEGAL UNLESS YOU'RE CARRYING A PEN LICENSE!
AND WHAT'S THIS?
YOU'RE WEARING A JACKET AND GLASSES WHICH CAN BE USED AS AN OFFENSIVE WEAPON!
I NEED TO SEE YOUR JACKET AND GLASSES LICENSE OR I'LL HAVE TO CALL THE BOBBIES ON YOU

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I hate fags who think they "know the law" and misquote legislation to resist getting busted for driving without a license, but it seems like these corporate goons are more common in the UK than here.

>complaining endlessly is our coping mechanism
We're more alike than you think britbong.

I saw him eating bacon near a South Asian yesterday. Isn't that a hate crime?

don't worry we're not some autistic sovereign citizens like you have.

telling to TV license man to do one is something everyone born after 1980 has learns

It's the same here, what we used to do when I lived in an estate was buy one certificate and everyone would chip in and then when the your man came we'd show him the cert, he'd hand it back then one of the younger lads would hope the fence in the back garden and give them the cert, we did this with every house in the estate. The inspector was an old fella so he never caught on to what we were doing.

Willow the Wisp?

U old bogger! Kenneth Williams RIP

Re: The knock, my Chinese housemate answered and does what he always does, waits for their introduction then closes the door without answer and shouts “did you just call me a chink, I’m reporting you”. Haven’t heard from them in 3 years.

Dutch banter

And those two Oak furniture selling twats who "ave no veneer in ere"

That video is about some shitskins dressed as police who roam around high traffic areas and fine people for littering with out of court settlements to private companies.

Oi, what da fug d'ye 'ave 'ere What's dis den? A fookin' weapon, eh? You tryanta fooking stab me or somfin' is ya? Da Queen'll 'ave yer 'ead for dis.

I'm an ignorant cunt so I literally don't care or know about some battle way back when

Yeah it's a joke, 2 days after I moved into campus to study here in the uk i've received a letter threatening me to not dare watch BBC live or there will be (((consequences))).

Wtf uk?

yes every year over 100,000 people get criminal record because they dont pay tv license

its a criminal offence

Except you can't get a search warrant to come into someone's house and see if they own a television that receives live broadcast.

TV Licensing has absolutely no legal authority or power. If you put up a sign on your property saying "No Implied Right of Access", they aren't even allowed to come onto your property to talk to you.

Seriously, real life is fucked-up enough without making shit up.

No, retard. You're allowed to have a tv as long as you don't have means of receiving the signal.

here they put that tax into the electricity bill, there's no getting out of government-funded crap if you don't literally cut your house off the power grid
>b-but muh quality programming
lolno, it's all bullshit prize games and soap operas, all while having even more tv ads than private channels
seriously fuck this shit

Ok, something more recent then. This is dutch people larping as britbongs.

they can still check it because of bbc iplayer
ive seen videos of people from the licensing inspecting people's browsing history etc

if you watch iplayer you legally need the license etc

Every fucking TV you buy nowadays has some sort of tuner, which makes it technically able to receive a signal.

That type of behaviour will get you nicked, assigned to mandatory diversity classes and a course estrogen pills.

you can't fool me, those are normies celebrating Zwarte Piet

dude its quality programming what you're talking about


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>tfw don't play license
>still watch HIGNFU and Robot Wars on iPlayer

This has always fucking amazed me, because they're trying to get people to pay for something without having a mechanism to deny them access to it. If they want people to pay for the BBC, why not lock it behind a pay TV service so that people would need to subscribe to a service to have access to it? I cannot think of any other instance where something is made readily available to everyone, and then they try to force you to pay via intimidation and intrusion because they have no actual mechanism to patrol it. I mean, if I don't pay for electricity or internet, those services get cut off.

Same bullshit here. They will sneak around in your backyard and peep through your windows to see if you have a TV. A few years ago they tried to pass a law that would count computers and smartphones as TVs, so that people without a TV (like me) would still be forced to pay for the state propaganda.

I used to get regular letters and they sent a bloke round eventually to knock on my door

>hello our records indicate that this address is unlicenced
>okay
>so would you like to renew your licence today ?
>dont need one mate
>do you own a television ?
>Dont need a licence mate
>are you telling me you DONT have a tv ?
>i'm not interested to be honest mate
>ok bye

That was years ago and i havnt had a letter since.

What pisses me off the most is their implication that all TVs require licences, simply not true.

We had that same garbage system here a few years back.

Then people threw out their TVs, so they defined computers as "new-fashioned television access device" and made you pay if you owned any device capable of accessing the internet.

But nowadays you are simply forced to pay (for having a household) no matter if you even own any device capable of recieving their propaganda.

Thanks Merkel.

>not using incognito

>he's not using a beamer
wew

>that discussion
it's so mundane but it made me smile as i could just imagine it with accents and all, it's the tiny things like that that make me realise I still love my country and how we do things

it isnt about what you do but about power dynamic
you are practically forced to make yourself "safer" because of those policies
that is the actual issue

Wanna meet your do my did dad

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No, you’ll get a tv licence guy who asks if he can come in to inspect. You say no, fuck off. Then you’ll get some letters saying you need a tv license to watch live tv. You then call them up and say you don’t watch live tv, only pc, dvd and vidya. They will then say ok user, could we come and inspect your place. You then say no, fuck off. They will try the whole thing again next year. Rinse and repeat.
>t. Britfag

stop posting on the phone while you're squatting in the street pajeet, that made zero sense.

>You then call them up and say you don’t watch live tv, only pc, dvd and vidya.

People think they're clever doing this, but it only encourages them. After a year or two they have to delete your details anyway so the letters say "To the Occupier". Hope you're not on the open electoral register. They can't get a warrant on a nameless person.

What do you mean ?

Dammit!!

I dunno, i'm sleep deprived and spouting shite and getting a bit emotional. Ignore me

also when you buy a new TV, your name and address is registered & sent to licensing authority.

Underrated lmao

I never even knew about the open electoral register.

>now filling out a form to get me off it

I told them I don't require a licence and they send me a polite letter every 5 years asking if my circumstances have changed.

LOL you dont even know... in germany you dont even have to own a tv, you have to pay if you have a house or a flat because you could be watching the public station cancer online

England is a lolcow

Here's an actual video on how to deal with them:

youtube.com/watch?v=Sr6QrJjYOxo

Jesus fucking christ what kind of authoritarian hellhole are you living in?

>we're not some autistic sovereign citizens like you have
due to American influence, you have these retards in our countries now as well. they're cringey as fuck.

I watch the BBC too... on pornhub.

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That thread from a few days ago

Anyone remember??

TV Licensing people aren't really that bad in my experience. For me cutlery inspectors are far more arrogant and officious. The last time he visited (unannounced) he took 30 minutes to write his report even though I told him I had a doctor's appointment I had to get to.

We have the same bullshit here in Sweden, but it's easy as shit to avoid paying. All you have to do is say "I do not own any equipment that requires a license", record the conversation and tell them to fuck off.

I have never paid for a tv license and I never will.

This sounds pretty bad! Secret hidden fold-out-of-false-wall television monitors when?

RIP BRITANON

If you rip out the RF receiver circuits can you call it a monitor and tell them to fuck off?

I am just thinking that I have a TV that could conceivably be hooked to cable or an antenna, but I've never done that. I have a desktop PC in my living room and the TV is the monitor. I watch Netflix/Youtube/Hulu/Gomovies.to If I lived in the UK would I have to license this?