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Mr Morningstarr* · 04-11-2008, 11:00

Nearly 200 people complain to the BBC about a joke Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson made on the show.

Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has prompted more than 500 people to complain to the BBC about a joke he made on Sunday's motoring show.

Clarkson, 48, was taking part in a lorry-driving task, when he joked about lorry drivers killing sex workers.

"Change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day," he said.

The BBC said the joke had made "ridiculous an unfair urban myth".

Lorry driver Steve Wright was jailed in February for killing five prostitutes in Ipswich.

Clarkson's joke, made before the watershed, has now sparked 517 complaints.

But a BBC spokesman said that by Monday morning - before the incident had been reported on by newspapers and websites - there had been 188 complaints.

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GemJonno · 05-11-2008, 00:03

Hmm I dunno where I stand on this one..
One of the girls killed was the cousin of my Step-Dad.

Ck · 05-11-2008, 07:37

Clarkson tells the same sort of jokes as my dad.

bubble · 05-11-2008, 17:39

You know, after this thing with Brand and Ross, anything like this is going to spark complaints, especially if the press decide to run the story too.

Ck · 05-11-2008, 21:15

Yep, but the difference is thousands and thousands of people thought Brand a big enough wanker to bother to write in to complain.

Ck · 06-11-2008, 18:30

Lorry drivers are getting their revenge on Jeremy Clarkson for the comments he made about truckers "murdering prostitutes" by running him over in a new computer game.

In Run Clarkson Run players control a cartoon version of the Top Gear presenter as he is being chased by angry lorry drivers.

To win points, Clarkson must jump over the trucks and grab piles of licence fee payers' money.

Any wrong move and - splat - the presenter is knocked down.

The game has been devised by the Glasgow-based games development company T-Enterprise.

Sadia Chishti, its managing director, said: "Jeremy Clarkson is a loveable rogue, but we think he's overstepped the mark this time.

"So we figured we'd give truckers the chance for revenge. And not just truckers; the whole family can spend hours playing the game, running over and killing Jeremy Clarkson just for fun."

Clarkson angered lorry drivers after making the prostitute jibe during an episode of Top Gear on Sunday night.

Clarkson and his co-presenters, James May and Richard Hammond, were taking part in a stunt for the BBC2 show which involved driving lorries around an obstacle course.

Climbing behind the wheel, Clarkson mused: "What matters to lorry drivers? Murdering prostitutes? Fuel economy?"

He went on: "This is a hard job, and I'm not just saying this to win favour with lorry drivers. It's a hard job - change gear, change gear, change gear, check your mirrors, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day."

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