Save Top Gear, petition! - Page 2

Tycoon · 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 · 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.

Audi4Life · 09-29-2006, 07:19 AM

what a bunch of idiots....If you drive a dragster more than 300 mph someone probably will get hurt.....

cawimmer430 · 09-29-2006, 08:18 AM

Signed.

warot · 09-29-2006, 10:26 AM

Signed, but you aren't going to get rid of TG that easily... it's the biggest car show on TV in the world.

Gullwing · 09-30-2006, 02:38 AM

signed. 66315

Giannis · 09-30-2006, 08:32 AM

signed - 67251

Imhotep Evil · 09-30-2006, 08:56 AM

Signed, but don't remeber the number.

siko · 09-30-2006, 09:34 AM

Why would I want Jeremy Clarkson to keep his job...

Yannis · 09-30-2006, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by siko

Why would I want Jeremy Clarkson to keep his job...

In the note next to my vote i wrote "Jeremy Clarkson sucks!" ...lol...

09-29-2006, 07:19 AM	#13
Audi4Life Advocate Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: NY Posts: 908 Thanks: 239 Thanked 29 Times in 23 Posts	Re: Save Top Gear, petition! what a bunch of idiots....If you drive a dragster more than 300 mph someone probably will get hurt.....

09-29-2006, 08:18 AM	#14
cawimmer430 Trendsetter Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Mühldorf am Inn, Germany Posts: 8,028 Thanks: 3,975 Thanked 3,189 Times in 1,366 Posts	Re: Save Top Gear, petition! Signed.

09-29-2006, 10:26 AM	#15
warot Devotee Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 2,572 Thanks: 53 Thanked 175 Times in 90 Posts	Re: Save Top Gear, petition! Signed, but you aren't going to get rid of TG that easily... it's the biggest car show on TV in the world.

09-30-2006, 02:38 AM	#16
Gullwing Enthusiast Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 217 Thanks: 7 Thanked 45 Times in 31 Posts	Re: Save Top Gear, petition! signed. 66315

09-30-2006, 08:32 AM	#17
Giannis Devotee Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Patra, Greece Posts: 3,934 Thanks: 255 Thanked 301 Times in 232 Posts	Re: Save Top Gear, petition! signed - 67251

09-30-2006, 08:56 AM	#18
Imhotep Evil Aficionado Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 4,382 Thanks: 402 Thanked 279 Times in 198 Posts	Re: Save Top Gear, petition! Signed, but don't remeber the number.

09-30-2006, 09:34 AM	#19
siko Super Moderator Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 4,577 Thanks: 1,655 Thanked 1,573 Times in 736 Posts	Re: Save Top Gear, petition! Why would I want Jeremy Clarkson to keep his job...

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