Re: Imprisonment would be fair, I think
My parents passed away recently, father earlier this year and since then we've had a refund of a few quid from the TV license. Within 7 days they were back on stating we needed to buy one despite us telling them the house was vacant and nobody would be living there until it was sold.
A few months on I was clearing out the loft when there's a knock at the door - TV license inspector people, who I politely asked to leave. To their credit they did after I refused to answer any questions.
I just don't get it - we pay the license fee and a chunk of it goes on harassing people, their systems shouldn't require me to keep calling them and when I do they won't action anything without my name, which I have no doubt will at some point screw up the license at my own home.