Save Top Gear, petition! - Page 2

Tycoon · **Re: Save Top Gear, petition! -** 09-29-2006, 05:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Yannis

Last time i voted in Petition on line was some years ago. I think it was called "Stop Chris Bangle" or something...lol...

We're not friends anymore!

SDNR · **Re: Save Top Gear, petition! -** 09-29-2006, 07:06 AM

Here are two extracts from articles in the British press calling for the end of Top Gear.

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Johann Hari: It's time to send Clarkson to the scrapyard
So he can feel an adrenalin rush, there has to be a blood-sacrifice on our roads

Published: 25 September 2006

Ho ho. For Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and their army of Top Gear speedophiles, driving cars so fast they can smash a skull or kill a child has been a subject for uproarious laughter and acidic hate for years now. Clarkson has declared "speeding is no big deal" and shouldn't be punished with points on your licence. He has supported the gangs of thugs going around smashing the British speed cameras that have - according to independent studies - saved over 1000 innocent lives. And he has derided anybody who disagrees as a "health and safety Nazi". His acolyte "Hamster" Hammond said that because of these views, Clarkson should be made Mayor of London so he can "roar around London in a Lambourghini with a mayoral flagpole, shooting cyclists".

Now Hammond is lying in a hospital bed, lucky his life was not ended by this adolescent need for speed. I wonder if Clarkson, as he stared tearfully at the wounds of one of his best mates and comforted Hammond's wife and kids, thought back to all the times they have used Britain's massive death-toll from speeding as a glib punchline. Did he remember the column he wrote recently, in which he declared, "Of course, in France speeding is endemic and this means they have a far, far higher death rate than we do. But let's be frank here. You can't really judge a country by the number of people who don't die in car accidents"? Did he remember the snarling contempt with which he responded to pleas from the AA and some of Britain's most senior traffic cops to stop encouraging people to break the law? Does he see now why we "Nazis" try to slow cars down?

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Joan Smith: Call me serious. Call me gay if you must. But Top Gear stinks
The show has become a paean to speed, risk and destruction

Published: 24 September 2006

Surrounded by puffs for the programme, the sympathy message for Richard Hammond and his family sounded a jarring note on the Top Gear website last week. It was a small injection of reality among the links to film clips in which Hammond uses cars to play five-a-side football and his co-presenter, Jeremy Clarkson, forces his way to the top of a mountain in a Land Rover. Near the summit, Clarkson throws his arm wide and asks whether viewers have ever seen a view to match the rolling Scottish countryside.

Well, yes, actually, but I got there on foot. And I wonder how many viewers really felt that the wild scenery was enhanced by the intrusive presence of Clarkson's four-wheel-drive. On Thursday, Clarkson and James May, the programme's other presenter, visited Hammond in Leeds General Infirmary, where he was in intensive care. Doctors announced Hammond had suffered a "significant" brain injury in his accident, which came at the end of a shoot in which he had been driving a 300mph jet-powered dragster.