Who wants to give out their bank account details ?

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

An article on Clarkson that for once everyone on the list can enjoy!

Clarkson stung after bank prank
Jeremy Clarkson found himself unexpectedly donating to charity

TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has lost money after publishing his bank
details in his newspaper column.

The Top Gear host revealed his account numbers after rubbishing the
furore over the loss of 25 million people's personal details on two
computer discs.

He wanted to prove the story was a fuss about nothing.

But Clarkson admitted he was "wrong" after discovered a reader had used
the details to create a £500 direct debit to the charity Diabetes UK.
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."

Police were called in to search for the two discs, which contained the
entire database of child benefit claimants and apparently got lost in
the post in October 2007.

They were posted from HM Revenue and Customs offices in Tyne and Wear,
but never turned up at their destination - the National Audit Office.

The loss, which led to an apology from Prime Minister Gordon Brown,
created fears of identity fraud.

Clarkson now says of the case: "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."

 

geoff wrote:
<snippity snip>

That is -so- four 4 threads ago.

 

Slow server here ...

or something

 

Try wiping your finger prints off your screen.

 

Unless you've read the thread "OT paging champ", you'd have never known....

 

Not quite. Ginge can snip.

 

well, exactly

 

Because he's evidently too stupid to know the difference between a
"list" and a "newsgroup". Nice how he highlighted this fact in the very
first sentence, saving me from having to read the rest of his post.

 

It was part of what I copied and pasted

 

No, just terminally lazy

See, I left you something to get excited about ...

 

because I copied it from an email list and didn't notice

Is it so important ?

FFS