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Clarkson on Noise
Jeremy Clarkson the main presenter on the BBC program Top Gear broadcast on Sunday 7th August 2005 made a comment regarding motorcyclists with loud exhausts fitted, that he would like to shoot them in the face.
His main complaint was that the city boys come down on their latest machines at weekends dressed like power rangersand blast past his house in the Cotswolds making too much noise.
Talking to MPs this is one of the main complaints they receive from their constituents in rural areas.
It was one of Clarkson’s usual rants which usually have a foundation in truth until he mentioned the solution. His two cohorts on the show, one being Richard Hammond is a new columnist in Motor Cycle News, mentioned he had already advised putting wire across the road in the past.
Clarkson has responsibilities as a broadcaster and as someone who is listened to although
perhaps not heeded.
His cohorts on the show ride bikes and they did not really defend bikes, with the posh tall one being slated because he said his bike sounds like the start of a burp in your lower stomach.
Clarkson is a menace in some respects. Here we are, trying to promote motorcycling as a more sustainable form of transport and there he is glorying in the most expensive, powerful fuel-consuming cars imaginable.
If you wish to make a complaint then you can at:
www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/
www.ofcom.org.uk/advice/contact/tv_radio_other
There is also a petition set up calling for Jeremy Clarkson's sacking at:
www.petitiononline.com/bikers8u/petition.html
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