BBC paid Dorset Police for Top Gear's Upton bypass stunt (From Thisisdorset)
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BBC paid Dorset Police for Top Gear's Upton bypass stunt
6:00pm Monday 3rd December 2012 in News
BBC paid Dorset Police for Top Gear's Upton bypass stunt
POLICE officers used during Top Gear filming in Dorset last month were paid for by the BBC, it has been confirmed.
Three officers worked for around three hours when the stars of the hit TV show blew up a car on a Poole sliproad.
In response to a Freedom of Information request, Dorset Police confirmed the officers were paid for under the “hired officers” scheme in the same way as they are hired for football duties, census work or abnormal load movement.
Filming took place on a sliproad of the A35 Upton bypass.
Comments(39)
aerolover
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6:51pm Mon 3 Dec 12
Might be an idea to get together and hire one for the road problems. That would keep the little sod in.
s-pb2
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7:03pm Mon 3 Dec 12
muscliffman
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7:11pm Mon 3 Dec 12
NO, they did not!
The public pay for the BBC, the public pay for the Police, so we paid for this however it is dressed up.
Different carriage, same gravy train - all funded by us.
Bob49
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7:16pm Mon 3 Dec 12
Clarkson rhyming slang ?
djkent
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7:24pm Mon 3 Dec 12
Morrigan
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8:56pm Mon 3 Dec 12
I know that prog has a lot of followers, but in all honesty it is one of the biggest waste's of our TV licence money in my opinion.
The BBC pay those clowns vast amounts of money to basically play around like over grown school boys.
What a load of b0ll0cks!!
Chriswood
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9:03pm Mon 3 Dec 12
Morrigan wrote:Agree. Clarkson is a self-opinionated Tory tw*tt, permanently up himself!
There was a LOT more than 3 police officers there. When I went past there were around 9 or 10 police cars and I would say *at least* 20 police officers there, plus several fire engines etc., all parked around the roundabout and down the slip road.
I know that prog has a lot of followers, but in all honesty it is one of the biggest waste's of our TV licence money in my opinion.
The BBC pay those clowns vast amounts of money to basically play around like over grown school boys.
What a load of b0ll0cks!!
crispy_pants
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9:09pm Mon 3 Dec 12
Morrigan wrote:I personally hate this show and Clarkson. But I think you'll find that this is one, if not the, biggest money earner for the BBC.
There was a LOT more than 3 police officers there. When I went past there were around 9 or 10 police cars and I would say *at least* 20 police officers there, plus several fire engines etc., all parked around the roundabout and down the slip road.
I know that prog has a lot of followers, but in all honesty it is one of the biggest waste's of our TV licence money in my opinion.
The BBC pay those clowns vast amounts of money to basically play around like over grown school boys.
What a load of b0ll0cks!!
static kill
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9:11pm Mon 3 Dec 12
i have heard it all now
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9:18pm Mon 3 Dec 12
Lighten up,It is just a bit of fun.
muscliffman
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9:32pm Mon 3 Dec 12
crispy_pants wrote:Maybe it does earn the BBC money, but let us remind ourselves where most of that return goes. Is it back to the general public by way of re-investment in a supposedly neutral organisation?
Morrigan wrote:I personally hate this show and Clarkson. But I think you'll find that this is one, if not the, biggest money earner for the BBC.
There was a LOT more than 3 police officers there. When I went past there were around 9 or 10 police cars and I would say *at least* 20 police officers there, plus several fire engines etc., all parked around the roundabout and down the slip road.
I know that prog has a lot of followers, but in all honesty it is one of the biggest waste's of our TV licence money in my opinion.
The BBC pay those clowns vast amounts of money to basically play around like over grown school boys.
What a load of b0ll0cks!!
Or does it go to the far too numerous over paid politically biased BBC bureaucratic fat-cats and their recently observed obscene pay offs for failure?
Thebig18
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9:43pm Mon 3 Dec 12
sully1202
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10:30pm Mon 3 Dec 12
Stop moaning all the time
Sully
Cheeks22
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11:03pm Mon 3 Dec 12
This is hardly news.
ben12341979
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11:07pm Mon 3 Dec 12
Ivan Opinion
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11:25pm Mon 3 Dec 12
djkent wrote:within your license fee yes...So What, its entertainment
we **** paid for those idiots to do it
Ivan Opinion
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11:25pm Mon 3 Dec 12
rba wrote:excatly
so what
HRH of Boscombe
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11:45pm Mon 3 Dec 12
muscliffman wrote:And paid for with a left wing bias media tax.
Headline 'BBC paid Dorset Police for Top Gear's Upton bypass stunt'.
NO, they did not!
The public pay for the BBC, the public pay for the Police, so we paid for this however it is dressed up.
Different carriage, same gravy train - all funded by us.
EGHH
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6:57am Tue 4 Dec 12
Perhaps a FOI to the Speed Camera mob to find out how much the annual costs of running the Scamera Partnership. Bet its more than they bring in!
Morrigan
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7:03am Tue 4 Dec 12
Ivan Opinion wrote:I'd hardly call it entertaining to block off a long stretch of one of the main roads into Poole and a slip way off that road, just to do some school boy antics by grown men - and get the BBC licence payers to foot the bill for what is a select audience at best.
djkent wrote:within your license fee yes...So What, its entertainment
we **** paid for those idiots to do it
I also know of a funeral procession that had to do a longer than necessary detour to get to Poole Crematorium because the road was closed for those "clowns" and their jolly japes - totally unnecessary and distressing for the family involved, not to mention their inconvenience - and that of many other drivers in the area :o/
southcoastmatt
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9:11am Tue 4 Dec 12
Morrigan wrote:Morrigan - I bet you're a barrell of laughs to be around. Good luck to your family this Christmas scrooge.
There was a LOT more than 3 police officers there. When I went past there were around 9 or 10 police cars and I would say *at least* 20 police officers there, plus several fire engines etc., all parked around the roundabout and down the slip road.
I know that prog has a lot of followers, but in all honesty it is one of the biggest waste's of our TV licence money in my opinion.
The BBC pay those clowns vast amounts of money to basically play around like over grown school boys.
What a load of b0ll0cks!!
Go back to your porridge....
darcyknows
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9:21am Tue 4 Dec 12
Glashen
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9:23am Tue 4 Dec 12
jeebuscripes
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9:28am Tue 4 Dec 12
Brown lost the sight in his eye as a child, Clarkson things that's hilarious.
ShuttleX
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10:55am Tue 4 Dec 12
jeebuscripes wrote:Well to be fair, Gorden Brown did have only one working eye, he is Scottish and he certainly is an idiot. So where was Clarkson wrong?
Jeremy Clarkson once said that ex-prime minister Gordon Brown was a one-eyed Scottish idiot.
Brown lost the sight in his eye as a child, Clarkson things that's hilarious.
rugby_dave
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10:56am Tue 4 Dec 12
muscliffman wrote:Actually Top Gear pay for itself really! As they make more money from DVD, books, magazines and the live shows they do to pay for there work, Top Gear is the BBC most profitable show so it helps keep the TV licence down! So if you don't like it don't watch it but don't moan about the "waste" of money
Headline 'BBC paid Dorset Police for Top Gear's Upton bypass stunt'.
NO, they did not!
The public pay for the BBC, the public pay for the Police, so we paid for this however it is dressed up.
Different carriage, same gravy train - all funded by us.
scoooobles
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11:45am Tue 4 Dec 12
ShuttleX wrote:Wrong to mock someone's disability perhaps?
jeebuscripes wrote: Jeremy Clarkson once said that ex-prime minister Gordon Brown was a one-eyed Scottish idiot. Brown lost the sight in his eye as a child, Clarkson things that's hilarious.Well to be fair, Gorden Brown did have only one working eye, he is Scottish and he certainly is an idiot. So where was Clarkson wrong?
jeebuscripes
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12:06pm Tue 4 Dec 12
ShuttleX wrote:He might not technically be wrong, he's just an arsehole.
jeebuscripes wrote:Well to be fair, Gorden Brown did have only one working eye, he is Scottish and he certainly is an idiot. So where was Clarkson wrong?
Jeremy Clarkson once said that ex-prime minister Gordon Brown was a one-eyed Scottish idiot.
Brown lost the sight in his eye as a child, Clarkson things that's hilarious.
speedy231278
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12:10pm Tue 4 Dec 12
Javier Prigmoretti
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12:38pm Tue 4 Dec 12
speedy231278 wrote:How about a tv world free of all of the bad people. Just nice programme like the nature and the dancing?
I pay my licence fee, and I'm happier for Clarkson to behave in this manner than I am subsidising fixed, pointless and dull 'talent' shows and reality TV, especially when they rake in tens of thousands of quid every evening when idiots actually pick up the phone to vote for their favourite moronic Z list celeb, or talentless 'singer' that Simon Cowell is going to make his next few million from before they disappear in to obscurity!
Angry_of_Merley
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2:00pm Tue 4 Dec 12
stevobath
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2:02pm Tue 4 Dec 12
Chriswood wrote:That he is.Eventually he wont be able to keep his mouth shut & have to leave.Even his Tory Fat Cat PM & his mates wont be able to help him.It does however bring in so much money for the BBC.
Morrigan wrote:Agree. Clarkson is a self-opinionated Tory tw*tt, permanently up himself!
There was a LOT more than 3 police officers there. When I went past there were around 9 or 10 police cars and I would say *at least* 20 police officers there, plus several fire engines etc., all parked around the roundabout and down the slip road.
I know that prog has a lot of followers, but in all honesty it is one of the biggest waste's of our TV licence money in my opinion.
The BBC pay those clowns vast amounts of money to basically play around like over grown school boys.
What a load of b0ll0cks!!
Personally though,it would be great to have a down to earth presenter on Top Gear, rather than the 3 Middle Class ****,even if they are amusing at times...
hammer
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2:03pm Tue 4 Dec 12
pitbull74
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5:11pm Tue 4 Dec 12
Sunseeker for example pay to hire police officers and cars to assist with their abnormal loads where necessary.
The officers would have been on a rest day, so not taken from frontline policing. That blue line is thin enough already.
velcroboy
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7:12pm Tue 4 Dec 12
muscliffman
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7:19pm Tue 4 Dec 12
pitbull74 wrote:Straight over the top!
Not really news is it??
Sunseeker for example pay to hire police officers and cars to assist with their abnormal loads where necessary.
The officers would have been on a rest day, so not taken from frontline policing. That blue line is thin enough already.
So you pay a mandatory public licence fee to Sunseekers as well as the BBC then?
No wonder these people get away with this sort of thing, best to join them I think.
pitbull74
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7:42pm Tue 4 Dec 12
muscliffman wrote:Just how much of YOUR licence fee do you think went towards the cost of this event?
pitbull74 wrote:Straight over the top!
Not really news is it??
Sunseeker for example pay to hire police officers and cars to assist with their abnormal loads where necessary.
The officers would have been on a rest day, so not taken from frontline policing. That blue line is thin enough already.
So you pay a mandatory public licence fee to Sunseekers as well as the BBC then?
No wonder these people get away with this sort of thing, best to join them I think.
I'm sure there are television programs that you watch that have also had to have a road closed for filming..
All I'm simply saying is that this isn't a one off and is hardly news..
Not really worth getting wound up over is it?
caz maz
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11:51pm Fri 7 Dec 12
rba says...
6:47pm Mon 3 Dec 12