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Original poster

To have told the to licence man to piss off?

274 replies

DontGoRhiannonStay · 20/01/2017 12:50

I have phoned them so many times and told them we don't need a licence. I have a no licence needed declaration.
So when this guy stood on my doorstep and tried to read me some
Sort of "rights" was IBU to tell him to piss off before shutting the door on him? (It felt amazing)

OP posts:
BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 20/01/2017 12:52

Really? Unnecessary to tell someone doing their job to piss off

mygorgeousmilo · 20/01/2017 12:53

YANBU although I guess the guy was only doing his job, albeit an annoying one. I tell various door knockers to go away!

JennyOnAPlate · 20/01/2017 12:55

Did you actually use the words piss off? If so, you were unreasonable.

TheNaze73 · 20/01/2017 12:55

YANBU. They're wankers

WorraLiberty · 20/01/2017 12:56

You be ok with being told to piss off during the course of a day's work?

ailPartout · 20/01/2017 12:56

Why couldn't you have been polite?

ailPartout · 20/01/2017 12:56

Why couldn't you have been polite?

Rainmaker1 · 20/01/2017 12:57

YANBU! Tell the cunt to get fucked next time!

DesolateWaist · 20/01/2017 12:58

I can see this is annoying but you were very rude.

Pemba · 20/01/2017 12:59

They are known to harass people, though Breakfast. I think they get paid a bonus for every licence they manage to sell, and anecdotally they have been known to trick people. For example saying 'please just sign this to say I called' - later on the householder gets a summons to Magistrates Court and finds they have apparently signed admitting they do watch live television.

The OP has done nothing wrong. She has kept them informed, presumably she is telling the truth that she doesn't need a licence, so I understand why she is a bit miffed.

BonnyScotland · 20/01/2017 13:00

hahahaaaa how dud the guy react ?

Original poster
DontGoRhiannonStay · 20/01/2017 13:00

He started reading my my rights like a fucking police officer!
And I work in a prison so I receive far worse every day lol

OP posts:
NuclearSwan · 20/01/2017 13:02

YANBU! They are crooked buggers.

ThreeShiningStars · 20/01/2017 13:02

Well given that from your post you presumably said you didn't have a TV, and had a decleration, and then he ignored this then YWNBU.

Did you tell him you had a decleration and did he ignore you or try and tell you you needed one anyway?

I had horrible letters sent to me a Uni because they wouldn't believe I didn't have a TV in my room. As a teen i naively assumed that I wouldn't have to tell someone i didn't have something. So I also find it ridiculous you have to register for not having a TV/watching TV. To me it's like assuming everyone drives and having to prove you don't have a car to avoid paying car tax.

IcaMorgan · 20/01/2017 13:03

Years ago I had a to licence and got a knock at the door. I pointed out I had a licence and he wanted me to accept a caution for not having one anyway and wouldn't listen to me. I eventually took the piece of paper he wanted me to sign and wrote "I do not accept this caution as I do have a licence and am being forced to sign this". Needless to say I never heard from them again, not even an apology

Pseudonym99 · 20/01/2017 13:03

The OP has been polite by doing things that aren't even required, such as phoning them and filling in a declaration. She is well within her rights to tell the unwanted visitor to piss off. She should now post a sign up saying something along the lines of 'consent for agents of TV Licencing to be present on my property to knock on my door does not exist'

ThreeShiningStars · 20/01/2017 13:04

*declaration. fucks sake

WorraLiberty · 20/01/2017 13:06

And I work in a prison so I receive far worse every day lol

What does that have to do with anything?

Pemba · 20/01/2017 13:07

Blimey IcaMorgan they had no rights to 'give you a caution*, cheeky gits! They are not police officers.

roseshippy · 20/01/2017 13:08

I would have gone with fuck off, personally. But piss off is ok too.

Bunch of cunts.

Pemba · 20/01/2017 13:08

Although they would like the general public to imagine they do have those kind of powers. Hence the bogus 'reading you your rights' stuff.

PaulAnkaTheDog · 20/01/2017 13:09

Yay, abusing someone for doing their job. Go you!

cupsanddogs · 20/01/2017 13:10

I had them trying to get me to sign a declaration that I had no tv license and had been watching tv live but it wasn't even for our house but a neighbouring street, despite me pointing this out several times he still continued having a go at me and telling me others peoples license was higher because of people like me. I had a license.

They are due here next week because neighbouring flat is empty (communal front door) so I'm expecting more of the same shit.

PyongyangKipperbang · 20/01/2017 13:13

At one point I was getting visits every 6 weeks, they refused to accept I didnt have a TV. I would always let them in to check, I had nothing to hide, and off they would go, only to come back. Eventually I made a list of the dates that they had visited and when the next one came I gave him the list and said that if they came again I would be reporting them for harrassment. Funnily enough they never came back!

roseshippy · 20/01/2017 13:14

"Yay, abusing someone for doing their job. Go you!"

Their job is to lie to and trick people. It comes with the territory.