Top Gear in trouble, Jeremy Clarkson 'stoned' in Argentina..

[weltweit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring...ear-crew-abandon-cars-and-flee-Argentina.html
Jeremy Clarkson 'stoned' as Top Gear crew abandon cars and flee Argentina

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and Richard May flee Argentina under police escort after locals stone cars and Top Gear crew in a row over a Porsche number plate

Jeremy Clarkson and his Top Gear team were forced to abandon their cars and flee Argentina three days early as they were pelted with stones following a number plate controversy.

The crew were given an ultimatum by local Falklands war veterans to leave or "face the consequences".

They had provoked anger by using a Porsche with the registration number H982 FKL, which politicians and army veterans suggested could be seen to refer to the Falklands conflict.

 

[Enviro]

Excellent comment on the telegraph article:

Some people are like marmite, you either love or hate them; Clarkson is like dogsh!t, you either hate him or you have no sense of smell.

 

[8ball]

3 letters on a number plate seems pretty tenuous...

 

[tony heath]

and H982

 

[Dan U]

thread turns in to a Falkands/Malvinas bunfight in 5,4,3,2........

with added Clarkson, could be a goodun.

 

[billy_bob]

I was so sure when I saw the thread title that this was going to be the wrong kind of 'stoned', but no....

This should be the reaction everywhere those twats go.

 

[tony heath]

Clarkson is great at getting publicity, he's a prize show off

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

That car has had that registration since it was built in 1991.

So, they either went looking for a car with a registration that might possibly in some way be perceived as being about the Falklands, or, more likely, people are being dicks.

 

[billy_bob]

Well yeah, as Stewart Lee observes, he's very good at having outrageous, controversial opinions...to a regular deadline, for money.

e2a tony heath

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Oh and:

Local councillor Juan Manuel Romano said the digits 269 on the number plate of the Ford Mustang Mustang Richard Hammond was driving were close to the 255 Britons killed during the 1982 war.

He added that the numbers 646 on James May's Lotus could be taken as a reference to the 649 Argentinian casualties

ffs, this is desperate.

 

[8ball]

ffs, this is desperate.

I'm guessing Argentinian paediatricians have a very bad time of things.

 

[DotCommunist]

That car has had that registration since it was built in 1991.

So, they either went looking for a car with a registration that might possibly in some way be perceived as being about the Falklands, or, more likely, people are being dicks.

its the beebs highest selling foriegn export program so I'd assume people might be aware of clarkeson and his little englander tendencies. So its entirely possible that it was an innocent mistake. Like the time he mumbled nigger, and the time he made a slope joke.

 

[Jon-of-arc]

Oh and:


ffs, this is desperate.

Pretty tenuous. But fuck it, it's Clarkson et al, so this is pretty funny.

 

[tony heath]

If it wasn't a mistake it was a great way of getting publicity, it makes me wonder how much he paid the stone throwers and whether it'll make prime time viewing

 

[DotCommunist]

let he who is without licence cast the first stone

 

[andysays]

I was so sure when I saw the thread title that this was going to be the wrong kind of 'stoned', but no....

This should be the reaction everywhere those twats go.

Me too, and I was already getting my "should be the other kind of stoned" gag ready...

 

[andysays]

That car has had that registration since it was built in 1991.

So, they either went looking for a car with a registration that might possibly in some way be perceived as being about the Falklands, or, more likely, people are being dicks.

Unless it was re-registered with "suitable" plates

 

[editor]

All wonderful publicity for the show, of course.

 

[T & P]

Of course it was deliberate. Either that or a coincidence akin to hitting the lottery jackpot. Clarkson is a fucking cunt of the highest order, and that kind of stunt has his name written all over it. I wouldn't be surprised one bit if it'd been Clarkson himself who had ordered to tip off the Argentinian veterans in advance to ensure it was spotted and hilarity would ensue.

The man's an odious parasitic cunt. Too bad none of the rocks thrown at his car hit him square in the mouth.

 

[8ball]

It does look a bit like something is missing from the story. Guess it will come out.

Normally when they go on these jaunts they buy the cars in the country for starters, and these are British plates.

 

[dylanredefined]

Well yeah, as Stewart Lee observes, he's very good at having outrageous, controversial opinions...to a regular deadline, for money.

e2a tony heath

And people enjoy getting outraged at him.
Like when they had him on the telly to quote about a tube strike and he was quite reasonable about it all. Much to the disappointment of the presenters. So he then went on about having the strikers shot. He is a clown.

 

[billy_bob]

And people enjoy getting outraged at him.
Like when they had him on the telly to quote about a tube strike and he was quite reasonable about it all. Much to the disappointment of the presenters. So he then went on about having the strikers shot. He is a clown.

He probably eats quinoa, cries at old movies and nurses sick rabbits back to health when the cameras are off. Like Ray Winstone.

 

[Supine]

The argies don't like it up 'em!

Revenge for their Olympics trailer being filmed in the Falklands

 

[BandWagon]

He does it all deliberately and is laughing all the way to the bank.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Would Argentinians really associate the letters 'FKL' with Las Malvinas?

 

[Mation]

Would Argentinians really associate the letters 'FKL' with Las Malvinas?

Well yes, it's not like we here might think about the Falklands if an Argentinian referenced Las Malvinas.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Well yes, it's not like we here might think about the Falklands if an Argentinian referenced Las Malvinas.

What about the letters 'LMV' though? I don't generally scan every number plate I see for possible hidden references in foreign languages, do you?

 

[Mation]

What about the letters 'LMV' though? I don't generally scan every number plate I see for possible hidden references in foreign languages, do you?

No but it's Top Gear and they have form. The internet exists and people aren't stupid. Clarkson et al aren't stupid or bumbling. On its own... maybe not. Preceded with that particular combination so it reads H982 FKL, definitely. It's the context.

 

[Wilf]

I've attracted some funny looks driving round East Sussex with my 1066ARRW plate.

 

[8ball]

I've attracted some funny looks driving round East Sussex with my 1066ARRW plate.

Reception was a little frosty 12 years ago when I was driving round New York with my '911 LOL' plates too.