[Land-speed] Discovery Channel show

[Ray Buck]

Oh, man Doug!  I didn't know that.  But then none of the viewers knew 
it either (except for a very few) and they showed blood and gore from 
6 years previous and an entirely different meet?  Jeeze!

I just started re-watching it to count the number of times they 
showed Jason's crash, implying it was Leslie's and Glen's voice 
saying "Rider down' for the car crash (I can't remember her name...I 
can't remember names hardly at all.)  In the 1st 15 minutes, I saw 
Jason's crash 3 times, The USU "Buckeye Bullets" twice, the car crash 
twice and then the phone rang and I had to handle that.

The other thing that really kinda gravelled my butt was the way they 
referred to the Buckeye Bullet as "A hydrogen bomb on wheels."  Oh, 
man!  Poetic license is all well and good, but is there any frikkin 
wonder how the masses get so much misinformation?

Come to think of it, I'm glad the phone rang.  I'm not gonna bother 
with the rest of the darned thing.

RtR


At 12:55 PM 12/17/2008, Doug Odom wrote:
>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