A https://www.radionecks.co.uk/viewtopic. ... elsewhere started to drift off topic onto that of Unusual items seized during raids on pirate stations so I thought Id take it over here.

In the UK the question of whether records and tapes can be seized was once the subject of a house of lords appeal back in the 1980's the precedent established by this case was sadly overturned a few later by the 1990 Broadcasting act but I'm really talking of even more unusual interpretations of the definition of "broadcasting apparatus" such as:

* A studio clock

* Furniture (Tables and Chairs)

* A electric heater (seemingly the raiding party was instructed to take everything that was plugged in !)

* Audio leads cut (when they could have been just unplugged)

Ive also heard of a landline telephone (which was technically property of BT) been taken

But strangest of all (during a early 1970's raid on a Dublin station)

* A Teddy Bear

I bet some detective reckoned they could make that teddy bear talk. However the Teddy Bear evidently had a good lawyer as the courts subsequently ordered it returned.

a clock could be used to tell the time on air, some stations would read the time out on air, so the clock becomes part of the radio station, letting them know if someone else was coming on air, chairs could part of the station too sat on them while be on air, aswell as a tea pot if their making drinks, I suppose if they leave stuff there it makes it easier to come back on air