[Land-speed] Discovery Channel show

[Doug Odom]

Well, that picture was of my car and my BLOOD from a blow over crash at El 
Mirage in 2000. They wanted to show a picture of my face puffed up from the 
crash but I refused to sign the release. My face was hurt because the lenses 
in my glasses came out and beat my cheeks around enought to make blood come 
out of my tear duct. The only sore place on my body was my face. My glasses 
were too big and the cheek pads inside the helmet pushed the lenses out of 
the frame when my helmet hit the side padding on the roll cage on the first 
bounce. I kind of thought it was going to be a blood and guts type show from 
the start instead of a racing show.

Doug Odom in big ditch


> But  George Poteet as "Daddy Warbucks" and the OSU team
> "blackballed?"   And then the endless harping on crashes to the point
> of showing the blood  inside a car after a crash.  Jeeze...I've been
> asked to point my  camera elsewhere for much less "bad press" stuff than 
> that.
>
> Did SCTA  have a chance to view and approve the show?  Will Discovery
> come back  for the next installation of "crash, death and mayhem on
> the salt?"   If so, I think I'll read a book or write an email instead
> of watching  it.
>
> Maybe I'm just getting old and this is the new face of
> television.  If so, I can do without it.
>
> RtR
>
> Considering  all this , I wonder where Land Speed Louise stands on all 
> this.
> I did see her name in the  credits. Then again, I personally know NY  Fire
> Chiefs that were "technical advisors" to TV and movie Fire related shows, 
> and I
> guess you don't get paid if you actually advise technically.
> I don't think the SCTA needs this kind of coverage.,.I.M. very H.O., or
> publicity.
> BOB W