REPORT: Top Gear host James May crashes camper-dirigible near freeway, unhurt
No guts, no glory, and it wouldn't be a Top Gear episode without some kind of outrageous stunt or challenge. The propensity of autodom's favorite trio to flirt with danger has led to mishaps in the past, most famously, Richard Hammond (right) and his near-death tussle with a high speed rocket car, and now it's James May's (left) turn for a cock-up.
The UK's Daily Mail reports that May was riding in a caravan (that's a camper to you, buddy) lashed to the bottom of a dirigible, only to be blown off course by wind that had been uncooperative all day. Rather than land on a busy cricket green full of white-togged players, the whole rig wound up succumbing to the wind and crash landed in a farmer's field. May was unhurt, and will live to crash another day – provided the BBC doesn't succumb to pressures calling for the program's demise.
[Source: Daily Mail I Image: Chris Jackson/Getty]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Avinash machado 9:07AM (10/01/2009)
I guess the activists and the nannies will now request that Top Gear is banned.
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cool_ozzyfromkalush 9:12AM (10/01/2009)
I'm pretty sure that this was Slow's own idea.
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Jsingleton17 9:19AM (10/01/2009)
I love Top Gear.
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homunculus 9:37AM (10/01/2009)
oh the humanity!
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jemteku 2:13PM (10/01/2009)
LOL!! :O) Made me laugh.... thanks.
abbas350 9:38AM (10/01/2009)
well i'm sure he wasn't speeding, so... drunk?
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abbas350 9:38AM (10/01/2009)
no! it was texting!
HotRodzNKustoms 9:40AM (10/01/2009)
Proof James May is rubbish at being Captain Slow he can't even captain an airship!
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Redline 11:16AM (10/01/2009)
I'm sure he knows all the proper terms though!
Ray 4:16PM (10/01/2009)
Nah, Hamster shot him down after remembering about telling him to stop using aircraft-speak in that one episode.
jonnybimmer 9:49AM (10/01/2009)
Bet you a clip will be used in the season teaser. And who (other than "green activists" and other people against cars) wants TG to end? Is it simply a budget issue?
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Rich 9:56AM (10/01/2009)
Hey, I'm a green activist and TG is one of my favourite programmes. So shut your trap.
Redline 11:17AM (10/01/2009)
Hehe green activist that likes Caterham!
BigTeebo 9:54AM (10/01/2009)
CLARKSON!
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Rich 9:55AM (10/01/2009)
Freeway my arse. It's not even a motorway. Just an ordinary two-way road with overwrought “no overtaking” markings.
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mk15 9:55AM (10/01/2009)
He probably got sabotaged by Clarkson.
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Mel. R 10:05AM (10/01/2009)
Source: Daily Fail, AKA the #1 haters of Top Gear. They're always squawking in outrage over the show and its presenters.
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william tell 10:07AM (10/01/2009)
They both need haircuts, post-haste.
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husyk 10:23AM (10/01/2009)
Video footage now, I don't want to wait until November.
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aliasfox 10:27AM (10/01/2009)
It looks like that piano removal company next door is expanding into caravans...
Too bad James didn't let a nice cushy Morris Marina break his fall...
Go Careless Airways!
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