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Jeremy Clarkson Plus Bank Details Equals Epic Fail

Filed under: Other — Malcolm Owen @ 12:25 am

Everyone knows Jeremy Clarkson. He’s the loud-mouth from that motoring show “Top Gear” on the BBC, that compares cars to greyhounds going to the toilet, that has celebrities driving a really crap car, and has The Stig. Jeremy will say anything to make you think, and will try to make his opinion known, usually in a fairly blunt manner. Yes, he makes lots of enemies through his work.

Recently, Clarkson decided to, in an article about those missing UK government data CDs containing bank details for millions of people, try to prove that this isn’t a big deal, and decided that the best way to show it was to put his bank details in the newspaper column for everyone to see.
Many would say this is a fairly foolhardy manoeuvre just asking for trouble, but Jeremy persisted in his “I’m always right” ways.

Until he checked his bank statement.

Someone managed to set the account to send a direct debit for £500 to the charity Diabetes UK. Not only was he proved wrong, but also due to the data protection laws in the UK, the bank “can’t” find out what happened.
Jeremy eventually admitted his mistake, changing his belief from the lost data CDs being pretty much nothing to something far better, namely “Contrary to what I said at the time, we must go after the idiots who lost the discs and stick cocktail sticks in their eyes until they beg for mercy.”

Clarkson, as usual, ambitious, but wrong…

[Via the BBC News]