suckerA topgear -egyébként kitűnő- műsorának nagyszerű (legyen: zseniális) műsorvezetője erre úgy gondolta, hogy nincs nála alkalmasabb személy lenyugtatni a háborgó kedélyeket, azaz firkált egy megmondós flekket a szerinte műbalhéról. Hogy bizonyítsa igazát, beleírta a személyes számla-adatait is.
Le is nyúltak tőle rögvest 500 fontot, és még egy fasz-voltam cikket is írhatott, természetesen a ló túloldalára átesve immár.
Clarkson, 47, writing in his column in the Sunday Times, decried the furore last year after CDs disappeared containing the banking details of 7 million families.
The loss led to fears of mass identity theft with people's bank accounts open to internet scams.
At the time he wrote: "I have never known such a palaver about nothing. The fact is we happily hand over cheques to all sorts of unsavoury people all day long without a moment's thought. We have nothing to fear."
However, yesterday he told readers he had opened his bank statement to find a direct debit had been set up in his name and £500 taken out of his account.
"The bank cannot find out who did this because of the Data Protection Act and they cannot stop it from happening again," he said. "I was wrong and I have been punished for my mistake."
He added: "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."
