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12-23-2010, 10:33 AM
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James May Injured Filming Top Gear Stunt
May, 47, was helping fellow presenter Jeremy Clarkson tow his car from a ditch in Syria when he fell, hit his head on a rock and lost consciousness.
Suffering a severe concussion, the presenter was taken to hospital, given a brain scan, put on a drip and given stitches for a head wound. Speaking to The Sun, May said: "I stood in the line of where the tow rope went taut. I told the driver to move off and became part of a giant catapult. "There was a lot of blood. It was all very worrying." Speaking of his trip to hospital, he added: "They gave me a brain scan, but to be honest I think the Syrians were just excited to be able to use their new scanner." May was quick to play down the seriousness of the incident, saying his injuries were not nearly as bad as those suffered by co-presenter Richard Hammond four years ago. "I don't want to pretend I had an accident as bad as Hammond," he said. "He bashed his head on the whole of Yorkshire. I just hit mine on a stone." Hammond was left in a coma and fighting for his life after his car overturned at 300mph while filming the show in 2006. In the Top Gear Christmas special, the three presenters try to recreate the journey of the Three Wise Men. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20101223/tuk-james-may-injured-filming-top-gear-s-45dbed5.html
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12-23-2010, 10:37 AM
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OUCH!
I have been concussed and it is no picnic! I am glad he is OK...
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12-23-2010, 10:45 AM
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OUCH!!!!
 Just goes to show, once again, that cars are a complicated piece of heavy machinery that can and will hurt you if you don't mind your P's and Q's, even with a back-up team of professional safety personnel such as Top Gear has. 99% of the general population are oblivious to this (ie, familiarity breeds contempt), and IMHO is one of the main reasons so many get injured or killed by vehicles each year. OTOH, those three jokers as the Three Wise Men? That definitely ought to be worth watching! 
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12-23-2010, 10:51 AM
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 Hope they caught it on film. Glad to hear Capt. Slow is okay!
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12-23-2010, 12:54 PM
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Wouldn't be the first time he's fallen and hurt himself and been fine
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0079dcB6bGs (Sorry for poor quality)
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12-23-2010, 12:57 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owldlbRPyvg
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12-23-2010, 01:39 PM
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They are all gluttons for pain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s28kgurRXNU
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12-23-2010, 01:48 PM
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Hey they've been doing it many years and have all survived so far....I wonder if/when the american top gear guys will manage to hurt themselves.
Glad he is ok, that show is one of my favorites!
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12-23-2010, 02:04 PM
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12-23-2010, 03:27 PM
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12-23-2010, 04:17 PM
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12-23-2010, 07:52 PM
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Good thing Captain Slow is ok!
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12-23-2010, 08:41 PM
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By having the scam on his head to see what was in there, he has a perfect come back. Next time Clarkson makes a comment about his intelligence he will be able to say he has plenty of gray matter & can prove it !!
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