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Line 67: In the evening veterans and other Argentinians entered the hotel lobby to confront the team. Clakson later wrote he 'had to hide under a bed for a mob howling for his blood'.<ref name="SundayTimes"/> Local police then told the team they could would not give them any assistance in the coming days for filming, and in the hostile atmosphere the team decided to leave Argentina. The presenters and the women from the crew flew to England via Buenos Aires, the rest of the team would drive all cars to the border into Chile. The main Route 3 by which they had come with a filming in the city of [[Rio Grande]] a day earlier, was closed to them because the ringway was filled with people, 'the mayor in front'.<ref name="CronFueg-TopGearApredados"/><ref name="Guardian">{{cite news|url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/oct/03/top-gear-argentina-jeremy-clarkson-bbc|date=3 October 2014|title=Top Gear driven from Argentina after Jeremy Clarkson number plate row|first1=John|last1=Plunkett|journal=The Guardian|accessdate=8 October 2014}}</ref> For this, they would drive to the border place Radman by tertiary roads, about {{convert|250|km|mi|order=flip|abbr=on}}. But in [[Tolhuin]], after {{convert|100|km|mi|order=flip|abbr=on}}, the caravan was stopped by an intimidating crowd. The team decided to abandon the three show cars, and reached the border with Chile later that night. At 2 a.m., they had to find a tractor to ford the cars through the border river. Pictures show that the abandoned cars had been attacked and damaged with stones. At this moment, the Porsche had the more neutral number plate "HI VAE".<ref name="BBC3Oct">{{cite news| url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29474422 | work=BBC News | title=Protests cut short Top Gear shoot| date=3 October 2014}}</ref><ref name="SundayTimes">{{cite news|url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/focus/article1467360.ece|last1=Clarkson| first1=Jeremy|authorlink=Jeremy Clarkson|title=Make no mistake, lives were at risk|date=5 October 2014|journal=The Sunday Times}}</ref><ref name="CronFueg-TopGearApredados">{{cite web|url=http://cronicasfueguinas.blogspot.com/2014/10/top-gear-apedreados-escaparon-y-abandonaro-los-autos.html|date=3 October 2014|accessdate=9 October 2014|title=Top Gear apedreados escapan a Chile por Radman y abandono los autos en la ruta 3|language=Spanish}}</ref><ref name="CronFueg-LasOtras">{{cite web|url=http://cronicasfueguinas.blogspot.com/2014/10/top-gear-patente-malvinas-cabeza-de-pene-arma-gurkas.html|title=Las otras patentes de Top Gear hace referencia a los gurkas|date=7 October 2014|accessdate=9 October 2014|language=Spanish}}</ref> At that time it was also noticed that the Lotus had number plate "N269 KNG", which was alleged to be a reference to ''269'' United ''K''i''NG''dom killed in the war (the actual number is 258, and they were British). The Ford Mustang had license plate "EKH 646J", and it was alleged ''EKH'' being Afterwards, the police had searched the abandoned show cars. In the Porsche they found an extra set of licence plates saying "BE11 END", which can be read as the English slang word ''[[bellend]]'' or glans penis. (In May, fellow presenter James May famously described his co-presenter as a "monumental bellend"<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10800441/Jeremy-Clarkson-is-not-a-racist-says-fellow-Top-Gear-presenter-James-May.html|title=Jeremy Clarkson is not a racist, says fellow Top Gear presenter James May|accessdate=2014-10-10|periodical=The Telegraph|date=1 May 2014|quote=Jeremy Clarkson is not a racist. He is a monumental bellend and many other things, but not a racist. I wouldn't work with one}}</ref>) Driving with false plates is an offense regarding Article 289 paragraph 3 of the Criminal Code. Also left behind were four cars painted in the white-and-blue stripes of the Argentinian flag and football shirt, likely to be used in a football match played by cars.<ref name="CronFueg-LasOtras"/> | |||