Clarkson stung after bank prank
This is just brilliant, damn shame the direct debit wasn’t for some green organisation, now that would’ve been really funny…
Clarkson published details of his Barclays account in the Sun newspaper, including his account number and sort code. He even told people how to find out his address.
“All you’ll be able to do with them is put money into my account. Not take it out. Honestly, I’ve never known such a palaver about nothing,” he told readers.
But he was proved wrong, as the 47-year-old wrote in his Sunday Times column.
“I opened my bank statement this morning to find out that someone has set up a direct debit which automatically takes £500 from my account,” he said.
“The bank cannot find out who did this because of the Data Protection Act and they cannot stop it from happening again.
“I was wrong and I have been punished for my mistake.” [Via BBC News]
It couldn’t have happened to a nicer fellow!
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heh.
I know it’s wrong, but I quite like him. Sorry.
*Jaw drops*
Cid! Oh Cid! Nooooooo!!!
There aren’t enough 4-letter epithets in the world to describe him.
And that’s after he said the Spanish were “a race which likes to poke holes in bulls and torture donkeys”
C’mon, am I the only one here who watches Top Gear?
I disagree with aspects of Clarkson’s politics, and I have no interest in cars, but I do like Clarkson. The BBC would be poorer (both literally and figuratively) without him. He is a welcome counter-balance to some ways of thinking.
Yeah, I suppose you could counter-balance thinking with non-thinking…
I liked the stuff he did on Brunel, though.
I hanker for a world free of Clarkson.
C’mon Sid, give in to your car lust!
Here’s an article that will doubtless offend but which also dovetails neatly with parallel discussion on the Bishop of Rochester (I don’t vouch for the accuracy of some of the claims though)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article3107633.ece
Yeah I guess you’re right, we all need a Darth Vader to remind us sometimes we’re actually the Jedis…
careful, you might then find he’s actually your dad
Clarkson: “Leon…I Am You’re Faathar…”
Leon: “Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”
*Leaps off the platform*
plonka
Oh dear, it seems i’ll be a lone voice in this regard then. I love top gear and I am a complete petrolhead that spends much of his time thinking and talking about cars. I’m not a crazed fan of clarkson himself, but I do like him. However he’s not the hero of top gear. Despite me being a short cheeky chappy, I don’t think hamster is either.
James May is one of my heroes.
And by the way, because I know you lot, don’t start shaking your fists at my green credentials, I cycle more than I drive!
Oh dear, it seems i’ll be a lone voice in this regard then.
Have I been deleted again?
Sorry ciddo, work bans pp so I’m reading this on my phone and kinda miss the finer points of all comments.
I have said it before and I will say it again: BWAHAHAHHAHAHAH! What a moron! Suck it Clarkson!
[Deep Breath]
That will be all for now.
I like Clarkson immensely. Funny and witty, and his politics (apart from his innate anri-Americanism) largely agree with mine.
I note the hectoring little facist Sid is up to his usual tricks, I see.
I don’t necessarily agree with some of Clarkson’s politics, but I’m just about old enough to remember what Top Gear was like before he arrived on the scene and shook things up. I found the guy’s wry banter and blokey observations to be absolutely hilarious and a breath of fresh air for that show.
I note the hectoring little facist Sid is up to his usual tricks, I see.
hahaha. Godwin’s Law proved on this thread by our very own PP-resident idiot, BoreGoth. How predictable.
I couldn’t care less about Clarkson’s politics. Politically, he’s too stupid to be anything else. Its his ‘wry banter and blokey observations’ that has me flinging the remote control at the TV, shouting “F##K OFF”!
This really was a special kind of stupid, wasn’t it? I’m all for discouraging people from panicking but you’d have to have lived in solitary confinement for ten years not to know about the havoc that a fraudster can wreak just with your address and your mother’s maiden name!
I like Clarkson, though, partly because he’s not shy of holding up his hands when he’s wrong:
Clarkson’s politics? That guy wouldn’t know a coherent political argument if it rear-ended him at 300mph!
That’s probably why there are so many “Clarkson for PM” idiots around – fuckwits who want to be ruled by a fuckwit who hasn’t a fucking clue about anything.
Anyone want to see a video of my mate’s ex-girlfriend in action with Jeremy Clarkson? Check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nl9nqMKavI
hahaha. that’s made my Friday afternoon, that has.
thats is hilarious. i kinda like his style of presenting the show~~its rich in litrature and yet very street like. topgear is the best automotive show~~~
see, he’s a good sport and you cant argue with that.
However, something’s been bugging me about this story. It’s not quite right.
The bank cannot find out who did this because of the Data Protection Act and they cannot stop it from happening again.
I just don’t believe it. A crime, in theory, was committed. Either Jeremy’s decision to print the data is a mitigating factor, he is again playing a good sport, or the bank has had a word with him.
Something about it ain’t right.
If the prankster just took a standard charity appeal, added Clarksons’s details and posted it then, short of getting all forensic on the case, how could a connection be made? I don’t see where the DPA comes into it.
I must admit he came out well in the pie thing.