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Lord Shagg-Pyle:
As one who has occasionally followed a fox hunt, I found it quite amusing. My wife and daughter who have 'riden to hounds' thought it was great and wondered if I would be prepared to tow a lure soaked in fox wee behind the Disco.
The only bit that bothered me slightly was when JC seemed to drive right through what appeared to be a woodland full of bluebells. It may seem petty, but there are not many places left in the UK where flora and fauna grows unmolested, saying that it did seem that he was on a track, so hopefully no harm done.
It seemed as if most of the action took place on private land, so legally there wouldn't have been a problem.
The misrepresentation of green laning wasn't great, but it is a TV programme and lets face it, it was made to entertain, which it did.
I would like to see the TG team do a section on off roading at somewhere like Tixover. It would be great to see JC start to quack as the water rises in the cab of Landy and to hear May say 'Oh Cock' when he gets stuck in the middle of a deep mud hole.
Perhaps we should concentrate our energies on trying to educate the RA and HMG into thinking that we are not a load of enviro physco terrorists, rather than having a pop at a programme that sticks two fingers up at the fluffy PC world we now seem to inhabit.

pux:
^^^^ well said there shag..can we now stop throwing are teddy's everywhere .. also can not belivie i have agreed with two policemen in a space of a week ;)

Eeyore:
To heck with it, I'll sign the petition  :cool:

Tinkerbell:
I can see where both sides are coming from but i have to say it is very likely to give us more of a bad name than we have already. You can put my name down

thermidorthelobster:
It's nothing to do with whether they were on private land or not.

They SAID they were green laning, very clearly, several times.  And then went charging around fields like loons.  Private land or not, in the mind of anybody watching who didn't know already, green laning is charging around in a 4x4 like a loon.

So next time the Ramblers start complaining about irresponsible 4x4 use, the general public thinks yeah, they have a point actually, we saw green laning on top gear and they were tearing up the countryside.

I think we need to wake up and smell the coffee here;  otherwise there won't BE any green laning in the future.  Next time there is a public debate about it, what chance do we stand with such blatant misinformation on one of the most widely watched programmes on TV?

That said, I'm not going to petition, because Top Gear don't give a toss about what anybody else thinks;  Clarkson doesn't care how much damage he does, as long as he continues to play the big man and make money hand over fist.  Petitioning is not the right way to go about it, but I don't know what is.

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