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From: acd4!dwj@uunet.uu.net (Dan Johnson)
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Subject: Re: Boston Gas "Specially-equipped Gas Meter"
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Date: 29 May 90 22:24:24 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 395, Message 4 of 9


In Volume 10, Issue 391, Message 5 of 12 roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
writes:

> 	Sounds like the Cat Detector Van from the Ministry of Housing!

There are two things that I would like to point out about this.
First, the Cat Detector Van was actually from the Ministry of Housinge
(it was spelled that way on the van).  Second, the UK really does have
TV detector vans which are used to find people using TV sets without a
license.  This earned a passing mention in RISKS DIGEST 9.94 (the
licenses, not the vans).


Daniel W. Johnson              Applied Computing Devices, Inc.
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