"Mate, is that a runaway truck heading towards us?" says one.

"Why yes, Homer it is," replies the other. "We'd better move."

Yes, a remote control truck careers out of control, but it takes the watching journalists a couple of seconds to realise what is going on. Nothing new there then.

Talk about a controlled test environment, and that net don’t look as though it’ll hold the truck either. Them slipshod Americans…you gotta love ‘em!