Chongo points out that the YouTube video of the Top Gear segment that I referenced yesterday has been pulled at the request of the BBC. Here is my summary of what was on the video.
Top Gear is a BBC car show with three hosts. Most of the time they spend reviewing cars that range from the ordinary to the extraordinary super car. Sometimes they do little challenges like racing across Europe to deliver a food product, or something like that.
This particular segment was another one of these challenge type deals. In this case the three of them start in the woods in rural Alabama. They are stinking hot and sweaty and standing in front of three cars, one for each of them. The central host is given the card with the challenge on it. The challenge he says, is to get out of Alabama, and to get one of the other hosts either arrested or killed.
They obviously wonder how, and it's revealed that each one will paint a slogan on another's car. You then see them cogitating and painting, but it's not revealed until they are on the road what the slogans are. They include; "Hillary For President", "Nascar Sucks", "I support man love", etc.
They drive down the road and get beeps and hollers as you would expect. But then... They need to stop for gas. They drive in and almost immediately get into trouble. The woman who runs the station comes out and yells at them about being gay, and how they are in a hick town, and on and on. Then she goes off and says she is going to 'get the boys'.
At this point things get really nasty. People start throwing rocks at the camera crew. They decide they are going to leave. One gets away clean. But another has to go back to give the third a jump. While executing the jump a truck shows up with about six burly guys and it looks like it's going to get ugly. Thankfully they get the jump going and get out.
At this point most of the video is blank and all you hear is the CB traffic between the cars and the production crew. It's pretty clear that they are genuinely shit scared. Using the last sparks of their intellect they pull off the road and wash the slogans off the cars then get back on the road.
That's where the video ends.
I'll iterate what I said earlier, I honestly think this could have happened anywhere. If I were to drive down Calle Ocho in Miami with "Viva Castro" painted on the side of my car I think it wouldn't go well. It's just a question of matching the offensive slogan with the locale.
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