<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fcbcda80-bbc5-4f09-8b7c-7019c3f7839a/2F67355E-F90D-4B29-BC69-982B6DA92A31/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1145545/Helicopter-carrying-Jeremy-Clarkson-Richard-Hammond-emergency-landing-hits-seagull-off.html" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1145545/Helicopter-carrying-Jeremy-Clarkson-Richard-Hammond-emergency-landing-hits-seagull-off.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailymail.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1145545/Helicopter-carrying-Jeremy-Clarkson-Richard-Hammond-emergency-landing-hits-seagull-off.html"><P>Top Gear stars Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond had a lucky escape when a helicopter they were in was hit by a seagull just after take-off.</P><P> They were 400ft over Auckland Harbour in New Zealand on Friday when the bird flew into a rotor blade.<BR /></P><P> The pilot was forced to make an emergency landing at a nearby helipad in the French-built Squirrel helicopter. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1145545/Helicopter-carrying-Jeremy-Clarkson-Richard-Hammond-emergency-landing-hits-seagull-off.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/EE1974B8-5AB8-4159-AEB7-51235A2EB5CC" alt="Jeremy Clarkson" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1145545/Helicopter-carrying-Jeremy-Clarkson-Richard-Hammond-emergency-landing-hits-seagull-off.html"><P class="imageCaption">The trio were 400ft over Auckland Harbour when they were hit and forced to abort the flight<BR /> </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1145545/Helicopter-carrying-Jeremy-Clarkson-Richard-Hammond-emergency-landing-hits-seagull-off.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/323FF83D-DCCD-429A-91C0-DEC1EB03B5C8" alt="Top Gear damage " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1145545/Helicopter-carrying-Jeremy-Clarkson-Richard-Hammond-emergency-landing-hits-seagull-off.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/9C94CF5D-E932-4153-8FF3-C7AD9EE1A37D" alt="Top Gear presenters" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1145545/Helicopter-carrying-Jeremy-Clarkson-Richard-Hammond-emergency-landing-hits-seagull-off.html"><P>He said to a press conference: ‘(In the UK) we’ve got this one-eyed Scottish idiot, he keeps telling us everything’s fine and he’s saved the world and we know he’s lying, but he’s smooth at telling us.’</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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