There was a guy near here who was successfully prosecuted for being drunk in charge of a horse and cart (well, drunk is an understatement actually, he was passed out asleep on the cart and the horse was merrily taking them both home). Unfortunately however, nobody had updated the fine from when that was presumably a common offence, so he was fined the princely sum of £5 (as well as court costs).
I don’t really drink so am always the nominated driver, but before I stopped going to the pub much there were certainly a fair few who would think nothing of driving the 1-2miles home down country lanes when they would’ve been over the limit. I think it’s more habit than anything to be honest.
The morning after drink drivers are probably the most dangerous I think, but then again I think more people should be prosecuted for dangerous driving full stop whether under the influence or just completely incompetent.
@Dave Op will have advised BT that she is with talk talk currently, I am presuming she will be doing a line transfer, and not setting up an additional line. Op is in contract currently, so contacting BT to stop the planned move until this is rectified may save the OP the huge cancellation fee.
Op is sure she didn’t renew, i was confirming that “auto renewing” ( 18 month rolling) contracts were now illegal for personal customers hence the link, so if she knows she didn’t and they can’t prove otherwise she doesn’t have to worry about if it was auto renewed. For example some contracts used to, and certainly some business ones do, contain a clause whereby you must give 3 months notice prior to the expiry of x date, or the contact will be renewed for a further 18 months. Op doesn’t have to worry that this may have happened to her, which seemed a concern in her op.
Set up a new email address. Redirect all emails from your new email address to one that you use. Give talk talk the new one, they will be able to use it as it’s not been registered in the past, you can then log in, check bills etc, and due to the redirect don’t have to log into the new email account.
I run several business with different lines, one central email address. I had to set up an inch of new email address for talk talk, as they can’t use the same email address on more than one account. Only takes 5 mins.
As for the contract, apparently rolling contracts in personal telecoms is not legal. So they would have had to obtained your authorisation. Ask them again for proof of this. Did they maybe call a few months before and offer you some better terms?
As for BT I’d phone them asap as advise that you can’t get out of your current talk talk contract. BT are a nightmare, so good luck with that! They shouldn’t have set up your new account without you being out of your old contract.
