Noel Edmonds Shite Crash Based Madness

[cort16]

Sorry if it's a re-post but this video total madness. The first guy in the Escort nearly takes out half the audience so rather than call it off they let some poor bugger in a Jenson interceptor have a go. Does anyone remember this?

 

No wonder they ended up killing someone.

 

[mouseflakes]

I haven't watched it yet - but I know what you're describing here. It's haunted me ever since - I remember feeling afterwards that I'd just witnessed one or more deaths live on prime-time TV. Quite horrific.

[cort16]

They didn't die did they?

[trigger]

That just go to highlight how big a complete twat Noel Edmonds is, I know someone who met him once who said that he was a rude arrogant arsehole.

 

Wasn't there also a near miss or death once involving his show and helicopter?

[Lankytim]

Not in this episode, no. I think a viewer won a competition of some sort to do a stunt in a car and he was the one who ended up dying, but it was on a different show.

[mouseflakes]

  cort16 said:

They didn't die did they?

 

I don't think so - but more by luck than by design I'd say.

[trigger]

  cort16 said:

They didn't die did they?

 

This chap broke a few bones, it was a bungee jump on the same show that killed a man.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Late,_ ... kfast_Show

[warren t claim]

Noel Edmunds=Grinning greedy pullover wearing STRADA HATER

 

IIRC it was a guy called Michael Lush that died. He was practising for a stunt where he was to escape from a straight jacket whilst dangling from a crane.

[autofive]

never mind the jenson, or the deaths and injuries what about the poor Zodiac turned into a pick up?

[Shep Shepherd]

And to think that this sort of thing passed for light entertainment back in the 1980s

[morris_ital_lover]

Was there even a roll cage in the interceptor? There seems to have been little left after most of the car was flung into the crowd. You'd have thought after the first try they'd had stopped what was quite clearly muppetry of the highest order... for once I'm glad we've got strict health and safety laws.

[warren t claim]

That Escort accelerated amazingly well for an old knacker. Deffo not a bog standard 1100.

[TimothyClaypole]

Assuming the Jensen guy is in yellow there didn't look much of it left around him.

[simmo]

I was there.

 

Towed a PC Cresta up for a mate which was shown jumping earlier in the show, there were also a couple of other cars that did the jump earlier: a Mk 1 Granada Banger, a Nitros Equiped Chevy Chevlle station wagon. A mark three Zodiac banger failed scruitineering. My mate had a half steering wheel shaped bruise across his chest and suffered a collapsed lung a short while after this.

 

Apparantly the idea is to ballast the rear of the car to assist flight and rumour had it that Rich Smith's brother forgot to do this causing the nose dive. The guys that did earlier runs all said the ramp wasn't straight to the car bing jumped and all appeared to go to the left.

 

The Escort was a grass track racer with twin dellorto carbs and race engine and did sound the nuts.

 

The stunt side of it was organised by a wig wearing Dick Shepard and Jackie DeCrea(spl)

[warren t claim]

According to Wikibollocks "On 10 September 1983, stunt driver Richard Smith fractured his pelvis and injured his head, neck and back after crashing at 140 mph (225 km/h) during one such live stunt – an attempt to leap more than 230 feet in a car."

 

He's the guy driving the Jensen.

[simmo]

Rich Smith commisioned a video of the day which my mate has a copy of, at the end of it Rich is on crutches giving the thumbs up but look a mess. He is stood in front of the remains of the Jenson which was in his front garden and also looked a mess.

 

I believe Rich was trying to break Jacqui D's world record of 232ft

[warren t claim]

Noel on the Michael Lush fatality.....

 

"The BBC made an ex gratia payment of approximately £120,000 to Lush's family. While the coroner recommended that safety officers be available during any such future stunts, BBC managing director Bill Cotton stated that there would be no future programmes that exposed members of the public to risk.[8] After the inquest, Noel Edmonds was quoted as saying "If I was to continue my career at the BBC I would want to be fully confident about any production team I was provided with."

 

The Lush family could of got £250,000 in compensation but accepted the £120,000 off Noels Mystery Banker because the box with 1p in was still out there.

[cort16]

I read some of the wiki and it said the production team had been warned before about taking the risky stuff too far. Apparantly they wanted to lift someone off the top of a chimney with a helicopter just as it blew up*

 

It just seems crazy that after that scrote landed so badly they thought they'd just have another go.

 

 

 

This could be bollocks.

[Tayne]

Who had the signature about the lurking motoring journalists?

 

[coincidence]this video was tweeted by Jonny Smith this evening which led to further comments from Richard Porter and Chris Harris[/coincidence]

[cort16]

I got it from Jonny Smiths Tweet.

[Tayne]

Ah, I thought you'd posted it earlier.

[warren t claim]

  Tayne said:

Who had the signature about the lurking motoring journalists?[/coincidence]

 

That was me!

[simmo]

U tube have removed this video clip in the past.

[garethj]

They were a bit fond of jumping cars like that, there’s a bit in Murray Walker’s book, Bedside Wheels, where he writes about being commentator for one of these things at Santa Pod. The BBC executive said to Murray “he’ll hit the ramp at 40mph and land nose-down on the 7th car. You stand by the 7th car, open the door and ask him how it wentâ€Â

 

Murray stood there but apparently nobody told the poor bloke to hit the ramp at 40mph and the Hillman Hunter was going much, much faster when he hit the ramp. The car was still going up when it passed Mr Walker at the 7th car and when it came down to land it had cleared all the scrap cars so rolled into a BBC executive’s Mercedes further down the drag strip.

 

ROFL, they’d have said, if it had been invented back then

[Mr_Bo11ox]

That clip is totally horrific! Unbelievable.

 

I dont hold Noel Edmonds personally responsible though BTW.

[oldcars]

Old thread i know but my wife watched the jungle crap and Noel is on it. First thing i thought about was this jump.

[barefoot]

Was that Santa Pod?

[oldcars]

Yes i think it was. 

[tooSavvy]

Merchant #ankers up for a good shoeing, if he has his way...

 

Nice to see banks in a *positive light = interesting business model "we take in all YOUR money, fuck YOU over, fuck off with all YOUR money and you can look to YOUR government (they operate everything with OUR money) to bail the whole gig out!".

 

Invest In Y <our> Future YKIMS

 

Thieving Scum :/

[Eddie Honda]

Of course it is Santa Pod, it's written on the fucking gantry!