BBC Says TV Detector Vans Are Real!

If the detector vans are real, why aren't they using them instead of sending the goons, they should catch more people.

Maybe we should get a pervert detector van and roll up outside Broadcasting House. The needle would go off the scale 😂

Jimmy Saville was really real though. Defund the BBC

I've lived in England all my life. 52 years. In cities, towns and villages, north and south, and travelled around the UK a fair bit. I have never seen any of these vans in real life. I'd at least expect to have seen them a handful of times. They are obviously lying. If they are happy to lie about that, what else are they lying about? I'm sorry, I can't believe anything the BBC says anymore.

They don't zoom up and down the streets. What they do is get a list of houses that don't have TV licenses and stand outside to see if they can see a blue light indicating a TV is being watched. They tried bugging my parents about a TV license and threatened them several times and sent threatening letters. We didn't have a TV nor even any blue lights. It is possible to detect what's shown on a cathode ray tube screen from the street but that technology was only developed about 30 years ago, just before LED TVs took over. I find it truly amazing that anybody even bothers with broadcast TV any more. I get my entertainment from watching YouTube videos. I'd much rather a shaky, blurry video by somebody who's showing something they do with all the passion they have for it than some fakery done by professionals.

Having worked as a TV field service engineer in the seventies, I can tell you it was certainly not possible to detect a TV, even more ludicrous is them saying which channel was being watched. It was not possible to detect a TV then, and never has been.

Their Authoritarian, threatening tactics should be criminal. It is like being stalked if the vans are real and if not then they are just playground bullies. Disgusting!

They wouldn’t be able to find a parking space for the van nowadays 😂

Basically their “detector vans” are a goon peeking through your window. 😂

I think it's just ridiculous that we have to pay a TV licence at all....who the hell do the BBC think they are...

No one should pay, I've not for decades now. Just ignore their warnings. We've got to stand together and end this legal theft. Laws can change but only via public outrage and direct action.

Whether or not these vans are real or do what they say they do, there's a good reason why evidence from "detector vans" has NEVER been used to prosecute anyone in a court of law. In order to use any electronic equipment to prosecute someone, the defence is entitled to examine the equipment to ensure it is working properly. The equipment is "top secret", the BBC said. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 If they can't reveal how it works it can't be used as evidence. 👍

To be honest, if they could indeed do this, it would be a massive infringement on personal data tracking and actually knowing what you are physically watching is ludicrous

Sadly there are still some people that believe this is possible !

In the late eighties, a friend of mine who was a former Police officer went to work on the TV detector vans. He was mind blown when he found out it was all fake and empty boxes with dials that did nothing. Their job was to knock on the doors of addresses that did not have a license, simple as that.

As long as you don’t watch live TV or any BBC trash you’re fine ❤

Pure Comedy those Vans 😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅

Get ready for some logic: If they were real, they wouldn't tell us.

About ten years ago, a Ford Transit "TV detector van" was parked-up in the town where I was living at the time. They'd parked it outside the shops. Probably in an attempt to intimidate the locals into buying a licence. There was no-one on board. So me & my friend at the time decided to take a peek inside. We opened the rear doors, only to be confronted with an empty van. All it contained was a hand crank in the van ceiling to turn the "radar antenna" on the roof.

My late mother was terrified of them. For years I told her to stop paying but she was utterly convinced they'd come with the vans and the courts and slap her with a criminal record! Nothing more than a racket.