"It's all in the database"

I'm kicking off what may be a slow and sleepy PAS news week (appears half of the city employees are not at work today) with a totally non-PAS related post on an ad on BBC, Great Britain's public TV channel. I heard about this ad on NPR's "Marketplace" program this morning. I would describe it as overtly threatening in a creepy authoritarian way.

Basically, to give you the background, in Great Britain, if you want to watch TV, you have to pay a license fee to BBC. Apparently, they don't like it when people don't pay.... to the extent that they are threatening to track you down and.... well, it isn't clear, but it doesn't sound good. Check it out.

Note the menacing helicopter noise at the beginning of the ad, and the menacing knock on the door at the end. "It's all in the database."

Oh and if you do want some PAS-related news, we are working on stories on a gas leak (may or may not be a big deal) and the closure of Pasadena Ford (I'm on this one).