A hyperthetical situation

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Subterfudge · 20/10/2006 20:32

Just say you were in a rented house and you were struggling a bit, and the owner is an old lady in a nursing home. You get a free tv licence through the door for the old lady. Do you fess up or keep quiet?

This is just an imaginary scenario obviously.

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FioFio · 20/10/2006 20:34

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CreepyCrawlyCarmenere · 20/10/2006 20:36

TBH I would just kind of consider that TV liscence is included in the rent. But that is probably wrong.

lulumama · 20/10/2006 20:36

well, i know i wouldn't be able to sleep at night...but i am an exceptional goody two shoes...

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Subterfudge · 20/10/2006 20:37

that is out of order agreed, but this old lady is in a nursing home and so presumably has no need of this tv licence. is it so wrong to keep it? it is still her house after all.

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mumatuks · 20/10/2006 20:37

Don't touch it... karma and all that, it'll come back and bite you on the butt etc.

At a rented address we lived at we had a TV license, but they still kept sending the guy who'd been there before us threats about him not having paid his license fee despite the fact they were getting £100's of us every year.

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Subterfudge · 20/10/2006 20:41

good karma never comes to me, i do lots of really nice things like offering people lifts, handing things back that I have found, stopping to help others but I don't tend to get much good stuff back.
me and dh are in two minds about it so reading these answers will help. If we had to decide about it that it, which we don't because it is only hypothetical;

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mumatuks · 20/10/2006 20:43

Believe me, you'll get something back one day but it'll be when you really need it. However, stopping the philosophical stuff for a second...

If you take it, it's not likely you'll get caught as as far as they are concerned the address has a license registered there so to speak. Hypothetically speaking of course...

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