TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England

Re:TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England by 908B64B197 on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:20PM (#25849888)

Can 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.

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Re:TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England by willtim on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:41PM (#25850196)

I suspect the issue is partly caused by outsourcing the enforcement to private contractors and setting targets!

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Re:TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England by 908B64B197 on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:09PM (#25850539)

So 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.

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