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How does this rank in terms of (in)famous highway chases from police? I'm asking because I've seen this scenario in the Simpsons, I think, and other fictional shows and I am wondering how much of a reference to OJ these are
Very famous and recognizable, at least for people old enough to have seen it happen live. It has been referenced in South Park for sure.
I love SP! I'm going to rewatch that episode :D
Easily #1. It's probably the only one most people think of when they think "police chase"
The words "police chase" always make me think about The Blues Brothers before anything else.
Or "Bronco" tbh
Definitely #1, although I do think about the guy that was joy riding a tank, think it was in San Diego. It was on one of those "wildest police chase" TV shows and they kept playing the same clips over and over, the tank running over cars and stuff like that. Also not sure if it really counts as a police chase, but there is the kill dozer.
That's true, the killdozer does live prominently in my memory.. I guess not as a police chase? It kind of is though
Unless Trump tries to run for it in his limo, I think it’s pretty safe to assume the OJ chase in the Blanco Bronco will remain the most famous of all time.
It has to be close to number 1. I'm Australian and was only 9 at the time, and remember watching it on tv back in the day. The only other ones that have really stood out like that to me are the ones that end with the driver committing suicide on live tv...
FWIW, I cant recall a single other person's name from a car chase, but I have this entire day on recall. What I was doing, the incident etc. I've only got that with one other day. 9/11.
OJ was a huge household name, LAPD was beating prime left and right, racial tension was at an all time high type explosion. And Internet wasn't a thing but 24 hours news was, that brown bronco was on repeat for months, y maybe a year until that trial was over.
Brown Bronco? Is this a Mandela Effect, I clearly remember it was a White Bronco, and the photo this looks white as well…
I think it's simply the number one car chase ever, with Bullitt pulling up the rear
Bullitt chase scene is a close second though.
I was 30 when this went down. It's hard to overstate what an impact the events and subsequent trials had on the American phyche at the time.
It had everything. Murder, California, cars, celebrities, sports figures, wealth, lawyers, drama galore for ~~months~~ years to come.
Great points! Also, "if the glove don't fit, you must acquit". That kind of reducing an issue to a single point and putting a catchy spin on it seems rampant in political messaging and advertising these days
In the 1860s, the practice of lying, misrepresenting, and focusing on catchy and lurid topics was known as “yellow journalism.”
The phrase was later shortened to “journalism.”
I believe that's factually incorrect. "Yellow journalism" became a known term circa the mid-1890s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism#Etymology_and_early_usage). Meanwhile "journalism" has essentially meant what term means today from an earlier time and has a different etymology:
I was borrowing a joke from “America, The Book.”
Part of the reason they don’t sell new Broncos in white. I just pulled that out of my ass, but realized I haven’t seen a new white Bronco yet.