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Litterbugs should be shot, according to Jeremy Clarkson . The Clarkson’s Farm host said folk who dump sweet wrappers and drink cans were at the "top" of his "hate list". Though he said he was not a believer in the "death penalty" he said he would "make an exception" for people "who can’t be bothered to find a bin". He said littering leaves the British countryside looking like "La Paz" in Bolivia which is the "litteriest city [he's] ever been to". Clarkson, 65, praised "jobsworth" council officials who clamped down on the habit - and suggested a gala awards dinner should be held in honour of those who are the best in the business. 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 as I have explained many times before 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. “Sadly we are a long way from that. “In fact, we have it in our minds that councils are doing absolutely nothing to combat the problem of litter. “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. And I saw recently some pictures from Handsworth where the mountains of crap on the pavements made the place look like La Paz. Which is the litteriest city I’ve ever been to.” Clarkson said litter patrollers who adopt a zero tolerance approach deserved a ‘slap-up lunch at the best eatery in town’. “Maybe there could even be a glittering gala do at the Grosvenor every year where prizes are handed out to the council official who’s taken his job description to the max,” he said. “The chap, for instance, who demanded a £50 fine from a 16-year-old who’d released a helium balloon. He should get the star prize, that guy. “I regularly find deflated party balloons in my woods and I’m invariably filled with an urgent desire to find the people who released them and hit the back of their hands with a hammer. “I know the parents would bleat, ‘Oh but he’s only four’. Yes, well now he won’t do it again, will he?”
