Clarkson admits being wrong! Shock Horror!

[AlanSv]

Gave out his bank account details, swore no one could take money out, in national paper.

Then was surprised when someone did LOL

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7174760.stm

Shame it wasn't to a biker charity or something lmao

[Alpinestarhero]

idiot!

Matt

[Bluepete]

LMAO!

At least he didn't end up with a Thai bride knocking on his door

[-Ralph-]

Hmmm, not LMAO.

My bank details were amongst those lost and this just proves that there is something to worry about. Clarkson has kids under 16 too so his details would be included in those lost. That does mean however that his back should APPARANTLY be watching his account for fraudulent transactions. The prank still happened though didn't it!

All the government and bank assurances that things would be fine are ******** then. The only reason that shedloads of money hasn't gone missing is that the details really are completely lost haven't yet fallen into the wrong hands, or he wrong hands are just waiting for things to calm down before they strike.

Think I'm going to insist that my bank closes and reopens my account or I'll just move to a different bank.

[missyburd]

Ridiculous. He was asking for trouble :smt011...bank details AND how to find out his address?? needs a good :smt075 IMO

[yorkie_chris]

Lol!

Whoopsie :-P

No harm done like, just close the account, and I'm sure £500 is no hardship to him. But still, hehehehe.

[Stig]

What a spoon.

[Razor]

So forget him being PM then.


He'd obviously make a cracking chancellor of the exchequer...

[Well Oiled]

So if someone wants to pay me via internet bank and I give them my account no. and sort code they can get at my money? Anyone who writes a cheque gives this information out freely, often with their address details.

I still don't understand how they managed to access his account.

[tigersaw]

I still don't understand how they managed to access his account.

After my experience with ID fraud a couple of years ago, I'm surprised thats all he got stung for.

[-Ralph-]

Anyone who writes a cheque gives this information out freely, often with their address details..

This is a good point.
Does anybody work for the fraud squad in either the police or a bank?

[$tevo]

He's offended enough groups to pretty much make it odds on that publishing his account details would result in him getting shafted - my money's on a half German, half Malaysian muslim gay biker Green party member who works at his bank

[yorkie_chris]

half German, half Malaysian muslim gay biker Green party member who works at his bank

Apart from the biker in that list, that is a serious request for taking the pi$$.


What has Clarkson said about bikers anyway?

[$tevo]

Thing like wanting to string cheese wire across roads and shooting bikers in the face - all obviously in jest (his version of it)

IOM Today


A PETITION to remove Castletown resident Jeremy Clarkson as Top Gear presenter has been set up after he said motorcyclists should be 'shot in the face'.
Paul Roberts, 30, a senior credit controller, of St Helen's, created the online petition, which has so far seen more than 1,360 angry bikers add their names.

The final straw came for Mr Roberts when, during a broadcast of Top Gear on August 7, Mr Clarkson made the 'shot in the face' comments about people with noisy motorbikes.

Last year, in his column in The Times, Mr Clarkson declared his hatred of noisy bikes in the countryside and said: 'One day I will silence them by stretching a piece of cheese wire across the road.'

Mr Roberts, who has been a biker for 13 years, said: 'If you take it as a singular incident it's possible to laugh off his jokey comments.

'But when you take it in the context of the piece in The Times in which he said he would like to string cheesewire across the road to take the heads off motorcyclists, there's a pattern forming,' said Mr Roberts.

[missyburd]

What has Clarkson said about bikers anyway?

I thought it was a well known fact he doesn't like bikers :scratch:
" JEREMY CLARKSON, the motoring journalist with a passion for hating bikes."

" I know they’re a thrill. I know it gives you a buzz to hurtle down a country lane on a sunny day while encased entirely in leather. I know all that. But one tiny mistake, which might have nothing to do with you, and you’re a memory, you’re a smudge in the hedgerow. You’re playing a lottery where the prizes are small and the cost of failure is just gigantic. And I don’t get that. "

And someone's reaction to his rant,
"Your anti-bike rants are wearing a little thin Jeremy. So please just back the hell up and dribble on about cars will you. Please leave the bikes to people that understand them and who do not have to question other peoples sexual predelictions, in an attempt to cover up your own obvious flaws."

:rolleyes:

[yorkie_chris]

" I know they’re a thrill. I know it gives you a buzz to hurtle down a country lane on a sunny day while encased entirely in leather. I know all that. But one tiny mistake, which might have nothing to do with you, and you’re a memory, you’re a smudge in the hedgerow. You’re playing a lottery where the prizes are small and the cost of failure is just gigantic. And I don’t get that.

He hasn't said anything actually wrong there. Just that he doesn't see the reward being worth the risk, whats up with that?

He seems fairly reasonable in his books.

[missyburd]

He hasn't said anything actually wrong there. Just that he doesn't see the reward being worth the risk, whats up with that?

He seems fairly reasonable in his books.

no that was one of his milder statements lol. And I can see where he's coming from there.

I swear you mentioned something to me a long time ago about him not liking bikes/bikers. I think you've been brainwashed :smt101

Anyway, I think it's a Marmite thing with Clarkson.

[northwind]

All the government and bank assurances that things would be fine are ******** then. The only reason that shedloads of money hasn't gone missing is that the details really are completely lost haven't yet fallen into the wrong hands, or he wrong hands are just waiting for things to calm down before they strike.


Nah, mistakes will happen but generally you need more than bank details to witdraw money, think about it, every cheque you've ever written has your bank details on. If you do get an unauthorised debit your bank will refund it (though it can take a little time). Part of the protection is this after-transaction protection.