Top Gear is bad for the world!!

Duggy747

Oh dear, looks like Clarkson and the boys got into a spot of bother again. This time from enviornmentalist saying that they fúcked up land and have caused "ecological damage". Hmm!

Top Gear 'damaged African plains'

The show has been accused of environmental damage before
The BBC's motoring programme Top Gear has been accused of causing damage to a pristine wilderness in Botswana.
Conservationists have accused the show, hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, of leaving scars across the Makgadikgadi salt pans by driving vehicles across them.

They have said the tracks caused by the cars could remain for decades.

A BBC spokeswoman said: "We employed several environmental experts who advised us on where we could and couldn't go."

Bad example

She added the BBC had "ensured that we never went near any conservation areas".

Mary Rice of the Environmental Investigation Agency, which carries out conservation work in Botswana, said the BBC's example could lead hordes of "boy racers" to follow suit.


Photographer Ijaz Bhatti recently crossed the Makgadikgadi salt pans
Guide David Dugmore was quoted in the Observer newspaper: "The thing that worries me is the viewers and public that are going to go out to the lakes, and we will end up with every Tom, Dick and Harry that comes up, with vehicles and quad bikes, which will absolutely spoil the place."

Top Gear, which has a large audience in southern Africa, is often controversial because of what critics describe as its addiction to speed and risk.

Last year, co-host Richard Hammond was seriously injured after he crashed while driving a jet-powered car at speeds up to 300mph at Elvington airfield, near York, last September.

In 2004, the programme took a 4x4 vehicle up Ben Tongue mountain in Scotland, reportedly churning up heather and sensitive peat on the way, and causing substantial ecological damage. The programme denied the allegations.

Codswhollop, I say!!

Taken from www.bbc.co.uk

Collie D

Duggy747 wrote:

Codswhollop, I say!!

QFT! Those boys risk their lives against rednecks and 300 mph crashes to keep us entertained, let them drive in the poxy desert if they want. Down with caravans!

Duggy747

Collie D wrote:

QFT! Those boys risk their lives against rednecks and 300 mph crashes to keep us entertained, let them drive in the poxy desert if they want. Down with caravans!

Heh, if you go onto Wikipedia you'll find some funny stories against the show. One being some pro-caravan sad acts whinging at how they destroy them all the time.

Clarkson is a glorious dickhead, he hates everyone from gingers to Welsh people. He got in trouble years ago on his own show for putting some plastic shape of Wales in a microwave. His response was: "I would've put Scotland in too but it wouldn't fit!"

dade

Mary Rice of the Environmental Investigation Agency, which carries out conservation work in Botswana, said the BBC's example could lead hordes of "boy racers" to follow suit.

I can see them now flying over the micras and the puntos just to race around the desert in Botswana

Duggy747

dade wrote:

I can see them now flying over the micras and the puntos just to race around the desert in Botswana

You can imagine it:

Boy Racers parked up at the car park after destroying their engines from doing donuts:

**** #1: Jaysus, there's nothing to do. All the Shades have the by-roads covered.
**** #2: Yea, they're muppets!!
**** #3: I got an idea lads, let's go to Botswana! Do a few laps around the place, eh?
**** #1 & #2: Let's go!!

Vroooooooooooooooooooooooom!!!!

Zaph

**** #1: Jaysus, there's nothing to do. All the Shades have the by-roads covered.
**** #2: Yea, they're muppets!!
**** #3: I got an idea lads, let's go to Botswana! Do a few laps around the place, eh?
**** #1 & #2: Let's go!!

You forgot the last line:

**** #1: Eh, where's Botswana? Is that the new gaff up the back of the shopping centre?

arybvtcw0eolkf

zaph wrote:

**** #1: Eh, where's Botswana? Is that the new gaff up the back of the shopping centre?

**** #4 step's in "No ye bleed'n muppeh's, its over de southside sumwhere I think".

FlutterinBantam

With a bit of luck that long jawed whanker will go up to his axels in the Okavango-- as an undernourished croc happens to cruise by.

Thrill

Another attempt at headline grabbing by the environmentalists I reckon. As a matter of fact, our government should ship all our boy racers out there and maybe it'll clean up the air here.