What Is The Issue About?

[Stargazer]

Regarding a car number plate, Jeremy Clarkson and the Falklands?I obviously missed something in the news last week?

[BlackadderV]

The number plate carried the reg H982 FLK which, if you remove the first half of the letter H, reads 1982 FLK (Falklands).

[ummmm]

lol...

[Stargazer]

I don't see why there was such a fuss about it. I still think it is innocuous.

[sandyRoe]

To the pure all things are pure

[bookbinder]

It upset the Argentinians, anyway, and so did this item:
http://jalopnik.com/jeremy-clarkson-calls-himself-a-penis-in-further-insult-1643917174
My guess is that the use of these number plates is not coincidental, but what Clarkson and his team hoped to achieve by the use of them escapes me.

[Baldric]

I read somewhere that the Argentinians found the original number plates in the boot of the car, so done for a wind-up?

[Mamyalynne]

Never thought I'd see Jeremy Clarkson and innocuous together in a topic.

[Baldric]

Found it, OK so not the originals

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/jeremy-clarkson-police-consider-even-more-offensive-number-plate-found-in-top-gear-car-another-insult-to-the-people-of-argentina-9782685.html