Many of you will already know I am furious on a yearly basis having to pay the ultimate rip-off of a TV licence. Recently we heard that the BBC will be tightening its belt as various cuts fall over the corporation, yet today we get the story of the BBC spending - sorry, WASTING - our licence money on quite possibly the most trivial bulls**t ever! The identity of The Stig, from Top Gear, has become a matter of a secret legal case and the BBC lost it.
Firstly, the BBC's justification was that the character's anonymity is part of the fun but really, at this sort of expense?
The BBC claimed the character "belongs to the licence payer" but surely this isn't justification for wasting our money on a legal battle over what amounts to a rather trivial matter of entertainment?
By all accounts the guy who currently plays The Stig is the SECOND guy to do so, so what the hell is the big deal about the identity anyway?
I'm not being an old misery about The Stig, but I am livid about the frivolous use of licence money for something so utterly trivial and futile. I'm sure media lawyers ain't cheap!
BBC - what a huge massive bloody rip off.... AGAIN!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11151777