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06-08-2007, 07:34 PM | #1 | ||
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Yep it's true - it was on Today Tonight!!!! They ran a story here tonight on vehicle safety (again) and this time it was to do with the strength of the roof in vehicles during a rollover.
OK, it starts with a Ford Explorer on a rolling test bed, we see the damage from outside and inside and then we have a quick interview with Craig (in Vodaphone livery) re the strength of racing cars in a roll over. Then we cut to the Dodo car rolling over and over and some noddy woodduck making comment that Craig Lowndes got nothing more than a bruised knee - Huh!!!!! Of course the story was made all the better with video from Formula 1, Carrera cup etc with vehicles rolling all over the place - I realise they have a point to make but Jeeze couldn't they do some homework first??
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06-08-2007, 07:41 PM | #2 | ||
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lol....some things they say really need some background info
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06-08-2007, 07:58 PM | #3 | ||
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nah they cant do that, it would be doing the story properly. :
just like the story they did last tuesday with hoons and street racing, showing videos with off street drag racing and burnouts at wsid and supernats :
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06-08-2007, 09:48 PM | #4 | |||
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I didn't see the story, was it the Jason Richards roll over that they showed?
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06-08-2007, 10:01 PM | #5 | |||
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06-08-2007, 10:11 PM | #6 | ||
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oh thank god! for a second there i thought he'd gone back to the dark side. Unfortunatly accurate news reporting is like intelligent politicians.
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07-08-2007, 02:12 AM | #7 | ||
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You watch that crap?! thats the really shocking news in this thread. lol.
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07-08-2007, 08:38 AM | #8 | |||
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07-08-2007, 09:23 AM | #9 | |||
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The sad thing is that there’s a probably large percentage of people that watch garbage like this and ACA and believe every word they say.
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07-08-2007, 09:34 AM | #10 | |||
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Today Tonight equates to bull$hit anyway.
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07-08-2007, 09:52 AM | #11 | ||
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How about we treat TT and ACA with the same respect we treat Paris Hilton with, and close this thread too?
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07-08-2007, 10:02 AM | #12 | ||
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this thread needs to be renamed instead of scaring the members.
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07-08-2007, 10:55 AM | #13 | ||
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today tonite didn't bother investigating a story before airing it!!!!>????!?!!
i dont believe it!!
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07-08-2007, 11:24 AM | #14 | |||
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