Thoughts and hopes go out to Richard Hammond of Top Gear. A great TV presenter and seemingly genuine nice bloke with a love of dangerous machines. Get your short arse well and back behind the wheel, Richard. That’ll show them.
On that subject, could there be a little less hand-wringing and blamestorming, please? Richard and his fellow presenters enter into the events they undertake willingly and in full cognisance of the risks they are exposing themselves to, I am sure. Yes, if there had been faulty equipment or lax safety procedures, then that needs identifying, I agree. But everyone standing around pointing fingers at the BBC and saying “Oooh, it was bound to happen, I told you so” really isn’t fucking helping anyone, now is it?
Whether Top Gear glorifies dangerous driving and speeding in everyday life is a different subject, and should not be piggybacked on the issue of what happened to the Hamster.
Anyway, get well soon Richard. Your Dodge Charger is missing you.
–c.
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