'Top Gear' host and crew flee Argentina after car stoned

Fox ^ | 10-5-14 | ap

[TurboZamboni]

The host of the popular BBC television program "Top Gear" and other members of the crew have fled Argentina after being pelted with rocks by people who believed one of their cars had a license plate alluding to the Falklands War.

Officials said a crowd of about 50 people began hurling rocks at the BBC group Thursday as they drove in a caravan under police escort to the Chilean border with Argentina's southernmost province of Tierra del Fuego.

Host Jeremy Clarkson and the others were forced to abandon the cars in an area between Tolhuin and Rio Grande. One minor injury was reported and images by local newspapers showed broken windows and other damage to the cars, which were taken into police custody.

[minnesota_bound]

60 minutes show on Top Gear where they explain sort of.
Extra: “Top Gear” in Alabama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jG0D2nRGrQ

[discostu]

I think the main argument for it being a coincidence is that it’s way too subtle for the TG crew. When they want to send some sort of message they generally paint it right on the side of the car, the most they do to “hide” something is make it so the message part is on the door so it blends until the door is open. They aren’t into complex decyphers that require you to remember H comes before I making it 1982.