The above website also has footage of the Hamster's Dragster crash:
www.autoblog.com/2006/10/09/video-hamster-dragster.../
(Mods - watch before you block - there's no gore and to be honest nothing disturbing, and as they say, Hamster has a sense of humour)
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The above website also has footage of the Hamster's Dragster crash:
Can't view it at the moment, but is it the same one mentioned here?
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=45208&...e
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It is indeed the same footage. Good news for Top Gear fans though.
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Great news. That will keep the wife happy!
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Hope Richard is able to play a full part.
Personally I wouldn't be so sure about it. They will definitely make him look nice as usual etc. but keep in mind that's a TV thing. I mean, we're talking serious brain damage here - possibilty of a seizure, multimple "flashbacks", memory loss, who knows what else. Not to mention the long-term effects. It's not like he's recovering from a flu or something... Each and every neurologist would tell you the same thing and it would go along like this: we're only just learning how the brain operates, we're trying to find out this & that, but it's a slow process.
Yeah, it is, indeed. Star Trek's doctors would cure Hamster with ease, even purge the incindent from his mind this instant, but for now we're here on planet Earth. These days they can't even treat mental illnessess properly, not to mention neurons reconstrunctions and so on.
It's really kind of hopeless at 98% of times and really sad, I've heard enough from my friend, who is a neurologist.
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For goodness sake he was on TV in an interview claiming that he could not remember two weeks of his life but joking. Was it Jonathon Ross' show? Only saw tit-bits on news 24.
Check out:
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6201247.stm
with option of the video clip :-)
Yes he was very lucky and thankfully well now. Is this a wind up Vincent de Marco??? He's well.
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V de M is my neighbour in Poland and extremely unlikely to be watching Jonathan Ross
However you do sound like you've got a bit of serious brain damage yourself this evening V de M, which in Poland probably means you'll end up in a tin of dog food or something (I'm guessing) since I haven't seen any mentalists since I got here
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Relax people, I'm just trying to point out that human brain is a complex thing and even specialists aren't certain about many, many things. As for Hamster himself, I wish him all the best.
BBD: tin of dog food, brain damage... would you please clarify because I'm not sure I can understand the meaning of what you were attempting to say.
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From the BBC: First bike ride 'elates' Hammond
"Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has said it was "fantastic" to ride a motorbike for the first time since his near-fatal jet-car crash in September.
He told Motorcycle News he had taken his Honda Fireblade around the streets of London just days after being given the all-clear to ride by doctors"
More here: tinyurl.com/sp7fp
But like V d M I assume he'll only be presenting on the programmes apart from the bits that have already been filmed.
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Well it's back tonight as promised.............
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I for one sincerely hope he doesn't play a full part, if that means taking part in risky stunts that only
fully paid-up (..and 'qualified' ) stunt drivers with the resources of a Hollywood studio behind them should contemplate.
The more I see of the recent trend in TV, i.e. 'reality' shows, people 'doing it for real' or presenters being the
surrogate Everyman for our fantasies, the more I wonder at the physical & psychological dangers
they're , apparently, willing to put themselves in for our 'entertainment'.
It's getting more & more like the Roman gladitorial arena, with the audience/viewer a simulacrum of the baying mob.
Just my take on things.
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Good on Richard and I wish him the very best. I expect the viewing figures for tonights show will be higher because of Richard's accident and I'm sure that means that someone, somewhere in the Beeb will be cynically thinking that it was a fortuitous accident. We live in the real world and in TV it seems that anything goes in the battle for ratings --- even at the complacent lcence funded BBC.
As said though -- Good luck Richard.
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Aside from Richard, I do think TopGear is good entertainment --- which is really what it is intended to be. However I think they spend too much time on the 'exotic' cars which most of us can't afford. I suppose though that ordinary cars are pretty boring so I can see why.
What I reaaly love though is how politically uncorrect JC is ------ I'm fed up with PC and it's so good to hear a bloke's bloke sounding off about things he doesn't like. I think in the last series he refered to the French as 'the cheese eating surrender monkeys' How did he get away with that? Glad he did but oh dear we don't want to hurt anyone's sensitive feelings do we? Course we do -- carry on JC!!
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I've seen a couple of repeats this weekend from 3-4 years ago. They actually reviewed 'normal' cars then including the 407, Jag X type estate and the Volvo V50!
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It's nothing new woodbines, look how many died on the early 1980s TV show - Late Late Breakfast Show with Noel Edmunds!
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look how many died on the early1980s TV show - Late Late Breakfast Show with Noel Edmunds!
One person - when a bungie jump went wrong. Out of respect for that gentleman's family though, lets move on from this particular subject please. DD.
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