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If you’ve ever wondered whether the TG boys’ lucky escape from the Alabaman rednecks was real or maybe-a-bit-made-up, here’s your answer.
In an extract from his new book ‘Or Is That Just Me?’ published in The Times yesterday, Richard gives a blow-by-scary-inbred-blow account of the team’s run-in with the locals on their Big American Road Trip. The run-in with the inflammatory slogans and the throwing of rocks and the men with big hats and big guns. Yeah, that run-in.
“Trucks were arriving and in the back of them I saw the broad backs and cowboy hats of what I could only imagine were more locals,” writes Richard. “Where they had sprung from, I had no idea. But they were all carrying guns, propped up against their feet.”
“I didn’t want to wake up tied to a tree, being invited to squeal like a piggy for the entertainment of a 20-year-old psychopath in giant dungarees, with three teeth in his head and a bitter hatred of anyone who wasn’t also a 30-stone homophobic racist who shot at things he didn’t understand…”
For the full story, head on over to The Times website or pick yourself up a copy of Richard’s new book, out in all good shops – and a number of average ones – this week.
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icon package commented on this article
Sunday October 7, 2012 at 10:20 pm
Here those on! First time I hear!
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Anon Brit commented on this article
Saturday December 29, 2012 at 2:37 pm
The comments by the anon American say more about his country than he intended. Big military, economy and colleges (pen1s too I guess) does not distract from poverty, inequality, uneducated , inward looking, overweight median of his fellow countrymen.
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Anonymous commented on this article
Saturday December 29, 2012 at 2:57 pm
Hmmm bigger economy than china, anon American??? How much in debt are you to them??? And which country actually caused the world economy to collapse??? Military?? I’d take quality over quantity any day my friend!!!
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JeyBizzz commented on this article
Sunday January 6, 2013 at 8:12 am
If it really was factual as the crew had stated, I only have one question….What was written on the other side of your vehicles?
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Delboy commented on this article
Tuesday March 5, 2013 at 7:55 am
Do you think we are as susceptible to TV as you lot are? Why do you always think every one is against the US! I remember a TV documentary about a girl from the USA coming over here and she was bringing her own food because she had heard we eat squirrels and other oddities, I’ll always remember her little face (she was 20 by the way) when she went shopping and couldn’t believe we had the same food as home on the shelves. Do you think we actually thought Clarkson had gone out and found a goddamn cow without the help of the “locals” or that we all believed the scene with the “rednecks” or that they could not catch them in those sheds they were driving if they had wanted to! Top Gear is entertainment take as that!
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