Top Gear - Highly Irresponsible Stunt

[DTCwordfan]

Anybody just seen the supermarket challenge with Clarkson et al driving their clapped out bangers around some supermarket floor, Clarkson not giving a damn about hitting the products all around the store, considerable damage being caused. Then Hammond repeats it, some staging of the 'collisions' and finishing with his VW(?) sliding over the finishing line on its side.

'Amusing' though it may be - some tozzer will go and try this out in real life, if not here, then in somewhere like the States or Canada (and there is a big programme following over there).

Your views............?

[Lie-in King]

I have never driven a car (bar one lesson) & love Top Gear! It's not meant to be serious, they've been given the brief to be daft & entertaining & it works for me :-)

[ludwig]

I can't believe they're still making this drivel.

[zebo]

Surely there are lots of things on TV that shouldn't be replicated.

[Hopkirk]

Andy, far from the licence fee funding the show, in fact Top Gear is a huge money earner for the BBC. It is sold worlwide.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/jul/06/top-gear-bbc-worldwide-profit

[andy-hughes]

zebo - "Surely there are lots of things on TV that shouldn't be replicated."

Absolutely - Wogan, Titchmarsh, Carr (Alan not Jimmy)/ Forsyth, McCall, Edmonds, Clarkson, Hammond, the other muppet .... the list is endless!

[Zacs-Master]

I can't recall anyone copying any other of their schoolboy stunts, so I'm not sure anyone will copy this one.

[emmie]

its probably been done before, by some madman having an off day.