| Tuesday, June 10, 2008 |
12:10 - Man said their equipment could pinpoint a purr at four 'undred yards; and Eric, being such a 'appy cat, was a piece of cake
http://www.oobject.com/category/sinister-bbc-spy-vehicles/
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I'm not sure why I thought this, but I always sort of assumed that the infamous "TV Detector Vans" they had in Britain—to track down nefarious scofflaws who would watch TV without paying their BBC fee—were for real. Never mind the technical issues involved; it just seemed like one of those things that, for all I knew, worked differently on the other side of the Atlantic.
Evidently it's always just been a particularly inspired (and creepy) long-running ad campaign by the BBC. This post (via AutoBlog) chronicles the various TV Detector Vans they've "employed" throughout the years.
I guess maybe I just figured that if Monty Python was spoofing them, they must have been a real phenomenon—because who spoofs a spoof? ...Aside from Cracked Magazine?
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Brian Tiemann
