Environmentalists treat Jeremy Clarkson's driveway to a steaming pile of manure
There are many things Top Gear front-man Jeremy Clarkson could be labeled as. Celebrity? Check. Petrolhead? Check. Environmentalist? Um, no. Whenever Clarkson has gotten the chance to get some seat time in what might be construed as an eco-friendly automobile, he always seems to find plenty not to like... and that goes for the Toyota Prius, Honda Insight and even the Tesla Roadster.
Climate Rush, the same group that's vehemently opposed to the expansion of London's Heathrow airport, decided to let Clarkson know exactly how they feel about his carbon-spewing ways. According to the BBC, six women showed up at Clarkson's mansion in Oxfordshire in a horse-drawn carriage with a wheelbarrow's worth of manure, which was then dumped on the entertainer's front lawn.
Reports indicate that Clarkson was not home at the time of the dung dump and by the time police showed up the protesters had left the scene, though their stinky gift apparently remained for all to see. Thanks for the tip, Ben!
[Source: BBC | Photo: Hannah Johnston/Getty Images]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
paul.stoller 11:57AM (9/18/2009)
Good the guy is an ass.
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Mel 1:02PM (9/18/2009)
Get a life and stop hating!
Mel 2:59PM (9/18/2009)
Wow, calling people names and piling s****t on other peoples place are the virtues here! Very sad!
Chris H. 4:06PM (9/18/2009)
Mel... hmmm, I guess that's short for Mel O'Dramatic
cool_ozzyfromkalush 5:15PM (9/18/2009)
I agree that he is an ass, but I dont think that we have the same point of view.
Tohe 4:12PM (9/21/2009)
Haha this is great! Those women were doing a good deed, they were bringing Clarkson's relatives home.
Mike Z 12:01PM (9/18/2009)
I think he should retort by placing a burning piles of coal on the lawns of the supporters.
Also, did'nt Jeremy highly praise the compact Ford Fiesta?
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RG 12:04PM (9/18/2009)
Clarkson rocks! Take that manure and spread it around since you have free fertilizer. In fact share it with the rest of the neighborhood. Then on every new episode, drop a piano on a Prius and didicate it to those 6 women. That would be damned funny. In fact drop a piano on a Prius in every episode.
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EVdriver 12:33PM (9/18/2009)
At long last! This idiot and a pile of manure, hmmmm, they perfectly fit together. Those six women have very good taste! :)
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nrb 12:55PM (9/18/2009)
It'll backfire. He'll bask in the attention.
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Nozferat 1:05PM (9/18/2009)
Good for them. Clarkson is a complete ahole.
He typifies the arrogant British prick who makes money while not doing too much.
God knows I lived the long enough to know the exact type. That country is crawling with people like him...most of whom now take up second residences in places like Santa Barbara, CA or even worse...they're now crawling all over Spain and Italy. Shame.
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Throwback 1:34PM (9/18/2009)
So you are okay with people who disagree with you, vandalizing your home?
Nozferat 2:26PM (9/18/2009)
So you're OK breathing other people's shit?
G_Man 11:37AM (9/19/2009)
Umm...you're going to call him a prick because he makes a lot of money by not doing very much..and say this is a trait of the British...you realize that America is crawling with people just like that. He's an entertainer. Don't get so damn fussy that some one has a blast driving cars for a living and makes an ass load of cash because he does so on television.
Nozferat 4:28PM (9/20/2009)
Thanks G-man!!! Now I know why entertainers make so much money...plenty of suckers to go around.
Glock22 1:20PM (9/18/2009)
Haha. I expected as much. Love for Clarkson on the Autoblog version and hate on the greenie weenie blog version.
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Nozferat 1:28PM (9/18/2009)
Actually I don't think it has anything to do with that...I just think he's a complete ahole.
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Mark Kiernan 2:48PM (9/18/2009)
If he had a legitite complaint about a car I would agree, but the Tesla for example was shown being pushed into a garage at the end, even though the reason was not because the battery was spent. You can guarantee that he wouldn't let it be seen where a ferrari was pushed into a garage. He is a small brain and big ego, he said that the Honda H2 car is the car of the future and better than the Tesla - so I rest my case.
Sorry back on topic, manure for manure.
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Richard 9:23PM (9/18/2009)
You may not like him, but he doesn't deserve to have his house vandalized. These "green" ladies are not role model citizens. They're tyrants. If we all went around and vandalized people that disagree with our opinions we'd have no civility. So, my questions is, who is going to vandalize these ladies' houses?
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Yanquetino 3:08PM (9/18/2009)
He'll have to change the name of his program to "Plop Smear." Ah well, when it comes to EVs, he is full-of-it.
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