BBC Top Gear USA Special and Scary Christians
After hearing so much about it, I finally managed to watch the Top Gear US special and I wasn’t disappointed.
I just can’t help myself, I love Top Gear, which in my mind is the finest show on TV by far.
In this episode the guys are in the US and are charged with purchasing a car each for $1000, doing some driving and completing some tasks. Among those tasks was to drive through Alabama, a notoriously conservative Christian state in the Bible Belt.
They were challenged to get each other shot or arrested whilst driving through the state and this was to be achieved by painting provocative slogans on the side of each others car.
Watch it here from 42 mins onwards.
James May wrote on Richard Hammond’s car:
Man-Love Rules OK
Jeremy Clarkson wrote on May’s car:
Hillary for President & Nascar Sucks.
Hammond wrote on Clarkson’s car:
Country and Western is rubbish.
It was an ominous warning as they entered the state and the “welcome to Alabama” sign was peppered with gun shot.
Some of the honks and stares were worrying enough when they were driving down the freeway, but nothing compared to stopping in a small, proudly “hick” town, to refuel.
Check it out here from about 45 mins onwards.
Briefly put, the petrol station owner throws a loopy, calls in “the boys”, who promptly arrive minutes later in the back of a pick up truck and proceed to pelt the camera crew and presenters with rocks! You get the distinct feeling that they barely escape a proper old fashioned US style lynchin’.
I tell you the truth, I’d rather chance my arm in an Islamic state, stuff that brand of Christianity. It was edge of your seat stuff just watching.
Quality TV at its very finest!
Tags: Christianity, Media, Religion Society
April 26th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
@webmaster,
“I’d rather chance my arm in an Islamic state, … ”
With the same sense of fun as Top Gear I challenge you to visit an islamic state with a motoon T shirt on, if you can not afford the airfare try visiting a predominantly muslim area in the UK on a Friday.
May 20: First Annual Everybody Draw Mohammad Day
April 26th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
@Goy. No Thanks!
It was of course a little tongue in cheek.
I travelled thru Birmingham train station on a Friday evening not long ago and I really did feel like an alien resident.
April 26th, 2010 at 7:16 pm
@Webmaster,
They used the wrong word “hick” is used by midwesterners, in the south it should have been redneck – would they have called themselves “hicks” in any case.