A richly-deserved honor for the American expatriate humorist: http://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/news/local/south-downs-litter-picker-has-truck-named-after-him-1-6204429
It’s pretty amazing the interesting life he’s lead 
I’ll see your David Sedaris, and raise you one Dave Barry…
…who has had the honor of having his name painted on a sewage pumping station in North Dakota.
The article he wrote about it is not available on-line.
But as I recall, after previously writing about N Dakota as a terrible place to live, the good folks of Grand Forks invited him to a tour of their great city. The mayor greeted Dave Barry at the airport, offered him a ride in a beat-up car, and promptly took him to the largest laundromat in town, before bestowing the honor of naming the sewage station after him,at a ceremony during a snow storm. Etc, etc.
Ah, the burdens of fame…
To be clear, Sedaris was given this garbage truck honor by people that had no knowledge of his fame as a writer. At the end of the article linked to in the OP, they posted an update w/ information about Sedaris’ “world following.”
Sweet. 
Sedaris is a treasure, I wish he was my brother or something so I could just give him the occasional hug just because. (Dave Barry, too.)
NPR did an interview with Sedaris about a year ago, during which he talked about chuntering around the local roadways picking up litter. Lovely man; I “follow” him on NPR and have read all of his books. I have a feeling that this will mean a lot to him.
Color me dubious. He got the honor for his good works and not his writing, I believe, but a moment’s Googling would’ve told the local officials a lot about him.
You’re assuming they bothered to Google him at all, though.
If you were going to bestow some honor on a resident alien, wouldn’t you want to make sure he wasn’t a fugitive, a criminal or the like, so that you didn’t have egg on your face when/if the press did a little digging as to just who this guy was?