Now we're going to talk about
our pick-up truck. You may remember we bought one
a couple of weeks ago. The idea was we were going to see
if you could actually destroy it. We tried drowning it
in the Bristol Channel. We smashed it through
the Top Gear production office. Dropped a caravan on it. We hit it with
one of those wrecking balls. And then we set fire to it. And it still survived. Now, we concluded after that
that it was pretty much unkillable. Trouble is, you see,
we were thinking laterally about this and what we needed to do
was think vertically. This is Rachel Point tower block
in Hackney, east London, former home to around 200 people, 23 storeys of late 1960s dream housing. Well, in a few minutes, this monument to miserable Britain
will be reduced to a pile of rubble. The building is meticulously laced
with high explosives. When they go off, this street in the sky
will be brought down to earth with a bang. You're thinking, "I bet they've
parked the Toyota next to it." But you're wrong, because we've come up
with something better. That's 240 feet up.
We're really not mucking about this time. There are 12,500 tonnes
of council concrete in this building. Nothing can possibly survive
what is about to happen here. -Do you think it'll survive?
-No. You never know what's going to happen.
It could just disappear. What have you done? You've set fire to it.
You've hit it with a wrecking ball. You put it in the sea.
I think, this'll finish it off. It's not going to survive. -Do you want to bet?
-Yeah. -How much?
-£10. I'll have a tenner with you
that you won't be able to drive it away. This is going to get expensive, isn't it? Right. Here we go. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. You can't stop it there! -You're got to be joking!
-Why did you stop it? -I'll show you later.
-That's evil! It stops people turning over to Heartbeat.
