Posted on 12/06/2007 5:17:45 AM PST by UKrepublican
Jeremy Clarkson launches attack on teenage thugs after hoodies ruin daughter's birthday
Jeremy Clarkson was at the centre of a police investigation after grappling with a hooded teenager - and has hit out at the human rights laws that prevent teachers tackling the problem in schools.
In a typically outspoken attack, this time focusing his attention on the anti-social behaviour, the Top Gear star has said that "hoodies" are being allowed to run riot, and blamed parents for not controlling violent behaviour.
Approached by a group of youngsters outside an entertainment complex, the BBC presenter assumed they were fans of his motoring programme Top Gear.
But instead of asking for his autograph, the gang wanted to know whether he had any "security" with him.
When the famously outspoken presenter walked away, they followed him shouting taunts.
Clarkson then grabbed the ringleader by his hood, only to find he was being filmed by his friends on their mobile phones.
"I was actually thinking, "Jesus, I'm going to get done for assault if I'm not careful," he wrote in his newspaper column.
Police were called by a 14-year-old girl member of the group who claimed 6ft 5ins Clarkson had been abusive.
Officers viewed the mobile phone scenes as well as CCTV images from around the Xscape complex in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
They also spoke to witnesses and security staff.
They found the teenagers had been warned about their behaviour earlier in the day.
A spokesman said: "It became apparent that, if any offence had occurred, it was the man who was the victim."
Officers visited Clarkson's home in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, that evening but he said he did not want to make a complaint or give a statement.
The incident happened on November 23 while Clarkson was waiting outside the complex for his daughter, who was having her birthday party inside.
He wrote: "I wasn't even remotely bothered when the swarm of children first approached.
"I figured they were fans of Top Gear and wanted to know about Richard Hammond's head. But no.
"What they wanted to know most of all was if I had any security."
Clarkson said he grabbed the ringleader by his hoodie "figuring that attack was probably the best form of defence".
He continued: "I lifted him off the ground and explained, firmly, that it'd be best if he went back to his tenement.
"He declined. They all did. In fact they all reached for their mobile phones and began to take pictures of the altercation."
At this point Clarkson realised the risk of being charged with assault.
"I therefore put him down, and in a flurry of swearing and hand gestures involving various fingers he was gone."
In his account of the incident, Clarkson described Milton Keynes as one of the country's "happy-slapping town centres".
He wrote in The Sun: "Plainly this boy's (the ringleader's) parents are useless, allowing him to be out and about on the streets, harassing passers by."
"Think about it. Every time one of these children is found stabbed or shot, his mum and stepdad always tell the papers he was "a good lad", and he "didn't deserve to die".
"Nobody ever says: "Well, if he was such a frigging angel, what was he doing on a derelict building site at four in the morning, you halfwits?"
The presenter then said that teachers were being undermined as they look to try and cut out the problems caused by unruly pupils.
"Children are at liberty to do just about anything because there is absolutely nothing the teacher can do. Not without being hauled out of the classroom by some frizzy-haired human rights lawyer, sacked and sent to prison.
"We can't rely on police - not without unpicking every single thing done by new Labour in the past ten years.
"So you fit airport style-style metal detectors at the doors to ensure no pupil is packing heat, you put all the troublemakers in one class and you give the teacher in charge immunity from criminal charges."
A spokesman for Clarkson said he was busy filming Top Gear yesterday and not available for comment.
Brighton has a tradition dating back to the“Mods and Rockers” time of public violence, nicely portrayed in the movie “Quadrophenia” set in 1965....
I’ve only seen the one where they buy really bad cars in Florida and drive to Louisiana. I laughed but I got a little angry at the smug jab at America and NO.
chavs have ASB
My brother was over there and he told me it was different from the US. In the UK, the officials are quick to defend the criminals. He likened it to a wild-west town. His friend got busted up in a subway by a roving gang. The police said there was nothing they were willing to do.
If you film yourself doing something illegal and make it public in the US, the police will come after you if someone makes a complaint.
Thanks for that.
Watch as he discusses punching piers morgan:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=r_2ZsMFY0fg&feature=related
For those that don’t know, piers morgan is a despicable liberal - former editor of the daily mirror - a left wing tabloid - he resigned after the images his paper printed of british soldiers apparently abusing an iraqi prisoner turned out to be false.
I didn’t know he’d done this - he’s gone up a mark in my book.
fugging awesome
LOL - Clarkson is really popular hereabouts, and we’re talking the sticks in the Northwest. Magic of the Internet, I guess. Pity the punks didn’t get a picture of him pulping one of their faces but that’s the price of staying out of jail in this Brave New World That Hath Such Creatures In It. BTT.
Exactly, Jeremy. Same story on this side of the pond as well. Making excuses for thugs and criminals has become an American pastime.
And btw, good show!
Being acquainted with Piers Morgan’s work, all I can say is thank you for the link, and sign me up for the Clarkson fan club.
My pleasure.
Yeah, I’ve read almost all of Dalrymples books. You can also read a bunch of his columns at
Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that.
Just what have you been up to?
Ruining birthday parties. It’s loads of fun. You should try it.
BBC America broadcasts Top Gear every Monday evening. It's great tv!
Yep. Got it set up on TiVo. Never miss an episode.
Ah Great.
Didn’t think you guys watched much UK TV. lol
It is a great show.
>>”Children are at liberty to do just about anything because there is absolutely nothing the teacher can do. Not without being hauled out of the classroom by some frizzy-haired human rights lawyer, sacked and sent to prison.<<
Is frizzy-haired the same as nappy-haired?
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