Jeremy Clarkson calls for snipers to be put in trees to sh*ot d*ad people who drop litter in the countryside
TV star Jeremy Clarkson says he hates litterbugs so much he wants to put snipers in trees ready to shoot them dead.
The outspoken 65-year-old Clarkson’s Farm star – who runs the 1,000 acre Diddly Squat farm in Oxfordshire – said he hated people who littered the country with sweetie wrappers and empty juice cans.
The former Top Gear host said his solution was quite simple; don’t give them an on-the-spot fine, instead shoot them dead on the spot.
He said: ‘You probably have racists and paedophiles at the top of your hate list, but for me it’s people who drop litter.
‘I am not a believer in the death penalty, but I would make an exception for people who can’t be bothered to find a bin.
‘Seriously*I would have snipers in trees and on top of bus shelters and there’d be no trials, no arrest, no reading of the rights. Just blam. Bullet in your head and your body dumped into a skip.’
He said it was ‘sad’ that we are still a ‘long way’ from simply putting a bullet in the heads of all litterbugs.
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The outspoken 65-year-old Clarkson’s Farm star – who runs the 1,000 acre Diddly Squat farm in Oxfordshire – said he hated people who littered the country with sweetie wrappers and empty juice cans
Writing in The Sunday Times magazine today, he revealed the scale of the problem, saying: ‘The verges round where I live are festooned with the wrappers from milk chocolate Bounty bars and Red Bull cans.
‘There is no hedge in the land that doesn’t have a fridge in it. ‘
He also said he regularly finds deflated helium balloons in his woods, and would like to track down the offenders and ‘hit the back of their hands with a hammer’.
Clarkson said the ‘litter police’ who fined Burcu Yesilyurt £150 for pouring the dregs of her coffee down a storm drain in Richmond, south west London, last week should be ‘congratulated’ on doing their job properly.
He said he reckoned the police should recruit council litter enforcement officers, saying they laid down the law better than cops.
He said: ‘These guys are out there. Hard-working. Au fait with the law. And ready to impose it on everyone without fear or favour.
‘Imagine if you had these guys, in a proper police uniform, on Oxford Street.
‘Those phone thieves wouldn’t stand a chance.’
In January, a national survey of 1,140 miles of urban and rural sites in England found that more than nine out of ten contained litter.
Meanwhile a poll of the British public found that three quarters believe the nation’s litter problem has worsened in recent years, with seven in ten now noticing litter in their local area daily.
More than half of the 1,737 people surveyed – 52 per cent – said they felt that littering has become normal behaviour.
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A national survey of 1,140 miles of urban and rural sites in England found that more than nine out of ten contained litter (file pic)
The survey found that litter not only looks unsightly but also may have negative psychological effects – and harm the country’s economy.
When shown an image of a heavily littered street, two thirds of survey respondents (66 per cent) said that they wouldn’t feel safe walking there at night, 86 per cent said they would feel embarrassed to live there and almost one in seven (67 per cent) felt that living in such an area would negatively affect their mental health.
Furthermore, almost nine in ten (87 per cent) said they would be discouraged from buying or renting in such a littered area and more than three quarters (78 per cent) believed the high levels of litter would deter business investment.
The report revealed overwhelming public support for prevention measures to tackle the problem, including anti-littering campaigns.
A lack of pride in maintaining local community spaces was seen as a contributing factor to an increasing litter problem by six in ten people (62 per cent).
