Richard Hammond, Injured while driving a Jet Car..... The reporting is about how inherently dangerous it is and there are phone in shows about 'Why do people feel the need to take risks like this and isn't life more precious than that'
Well, it is inherently dangerous, isn't it?
Isn't that why there was a fire crew and an ambulance crew "standing by".
Things are made more dangerous when a person with little/no experience is doing it. Verging on reckless, IMO.
Steve Irwin - a very experienced diver, diving with what is normally a placid creature.
Richard Hammond - a very inexperienced jet powered car driver, it would seem, performing beyond his abilities.
Sad on both counts.
fingers still well crossed.
Nobby, I wasn't suggeting that driving a Jet Car is not dangerous, of course it is...
My comments related to the uniformed comment and analysis in the news reporting of the incident.
Steve Irwin - a very experienced diver, diving with what is normally a placid creature.
- Killed in an accident by something unexpected...
Richard Hammond - a very inexperienced jet powered car driver, it would seem, performing beyond his abilities.
- Injured in an accident by something unexpected.
At present there has been no information about Hammonds preparation for the drive, but I would be surprised if Colin Fallows let him drive it if he felt it was 'beyond his abilities.
You don't just jump into one of these things and fire it off up the runway...
That was exactly the reason that Dennis Priddle would not let Maggie Philbin drive the Fuel Streanliner in the Eigthies for Tomorrows World, because he said 'she couldn't handle it'.
My point in comparing the two is that, because there are cars involved the reporting is different.
If Irwin had been killed by a crocodile, not a stingray I don't think there would have been the same sanctimonious, 'Holier than thou', "What is the point of what he was doing" rubbish that was on the phone in show I was listening to this morning.
Good luck Hamster...