[OT] Motorist drives through brick wall.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7704928.stm

Dramatic pictures of Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson deliberately smashing a truck into a wall have been released.

A Top Gear spokeswoman said the star was "quite badly injured" in the stunt, staged, she said, to "see how difficult it was to be a truck driver".

Mr Clarkson has said he emerged from the accident "in screaming agony", with bruises to his leg, back and finger, but has since made a good recovery.

Viewers can watch the high-speed smash on Sunday's episode of Top Gear.

Surly accident is the wrong word, it was a deliberate crash.

His injuries included an index finger that looked like "a burst sausage" and heavy bruising to his shin and back.

He wrote: "Everyone should experience this before they are given a licence.

Well I laughed. Perhaps he will remember this before spouting off in his
newspaper column again about deliberately knocking cyclists off.

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Martin wrote:

Mr Clarkson has said he emerged from the accident "in screaming agony", with bruises to his leg, back and finger, but has since made a good recovery.

Screaming agony indeed. From bruises? No exaggeration for effect here,
obviously.

Well I laughed. Perhaps he will remember this before spouting off in his
newspaper column again about deliberately knocking cyclists off.

Aye. Or maybe we can persuade him to try being on the receiving end of
that kind of driving and see if it has a similarly salutory effect.

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Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:

Screaming agony indeed. From bruises? No exaggeration for effect here,
obviously.

Well of course it will be exaggerated, since his style is founded on
hyperbole, but...

.... while bruises don't in themselves cause agony, the blow which causes
them might well. Agony is according to what your nerve endings
transmit, and that's quite possible if enough of them are on song.

Pete.
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So let me get this right... Woolly-haired, petrol-headed, tosspot, drives a
truck into a wall at speed, decides it hurts a bit? Just fancy that - who
would have thought..The level of intelligence of the twerp never fails to
astound.
:rolls eyes skyward:

On 3 Nov, 08:44, "wafflycat" wrote:
So let me get this right... Woolly-haired, petrol-headed, tosspot, drives a
truck into a wall at speed, decides it hurts a bit? Just fancy that - who
would have thought..The level of intelligence of the twerp never fails to
astound.
:rolls eyes skyward:

On next week's show: Revelations that bears may defecate in arboreal
surroundings.


Peter.

On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 02:16:15 -0800 (PST)
al Mossah wrote:

On 3 Nov, 08:44, "wafflycat" wrote:
So let me get this right... Woolly-haired, petrol-headed, tosspot,
drives a truck into a wall at speed, decides it hurts a bit? Just
fancy that - who would have thought..The level of intelligence of
the twerp never fails to astound.
:rolls eyes skyward:

On next week's show: Revelations that bears may defecate in arboreal
surroundings.


Nah, bears **** in the woods - it's ursines that defecate in the
arboretum.

He wrote: "Everyone should experience this before they are given a licence.


He said something I agree with . Am i dreaming?

It could do with being a bit more, though.
The full pre-licence seasoning needs the examinee to experience that
feeling of time dilation and helpless fear and embarrassment when you
hurtle toward a painful collision in which perhaps not only yourself
will suffer. Ideally it should be the examinee's own error to begin
with.Otherwise it does not address the overconfidence that underlies
many crashes.
TerryJ

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terryj wrote:

He wrote: "Everyone should experience this before they are given a
licence.

He said something I agree with . Am i dreaming?

He does that fairly often, but offsets it by talking a whole load of car
supremacist ******** the rest of the time.

We like James May in my house. He has a Brompton, for a start. Did I
mention that I have a Brompton?

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On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:17:31 +0000, "Just zis Guy, you know?"
wrote:

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terryj wrote:

He wrote: "Everyone should experience this before they are given a
licence.

He said something I agree with . Am i dreaming?

He does that fairly often, but offsets it by talking a whole load of car
supremacist ******** the rest of the time.

We like James May in my house. He has a Brompton, for a start. Did I
mention that I have a Brompton?

Did you mention that you're a ****wit?

Don't bother - it's obvious.

You were going to tell me who you accused me of lying about when I
said I had contacted people and that I had had responses from them.

Any chance of doing so?


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I encourage my children to wear helmets. (Guy Chapman)
Some evidence shows that helmeted cyclists are more likely to hit
their heads. (Guy Chapman)
I have never said that I encourage my children to wear helmets. (Guy
Chapman) - proven to be an outright lie.
He then quickly changed his web page - but "forgot" to change the date
of last amendment

On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:17:31 +0000, "Just zis Guy, you know?"
wrote:



We like James May in my house. He has a Brompton, for a start. Did I
mention that I have a Brompton?


Mrs. Hall thinks James May is how Jeremy Clarkson would be if he was
played by Stephen Fry.
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Tim