The Vine: December 31, 2010
I’m hoping your readers can help me find a video clip I’m looking for. Unfortunately, this all happened before YouTube (say 1999 to 2005-ish), or I’m sure it would be everywhere.
Years ago, my sister saw a car chase on TV here in the Los Angeles area. The Greatest Car Chase Of All Time. It was a slow-speed car chase, in which the suspect kept opening his car door and waving his leg and his silk robe in the air. The robe had a dragon on the back. At one point my sister thinks the man actually got out of his car while the car was rolling, and then got back inside it. Finally, he decided he was hungry, so he just stopped his car and headed to a doughnut shop. The cops, not surprisingly, tackled him outside, and tables went flying.
I have heard about this car chase for years and I need to see it. Need to. My usual great net researching skills have failed me — I keep getting car chases that end in crashes, and video-game references. I am hoping that someone, somewhere, has posted this online. Can your readers help me?
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I know this one! I know this one!
That was OJ Simpson’s infamous low speed car chase. He was on the 91 Freeway. My friend and I were going to a concert that night, also on the 91 Freeway, but in the opposite direction. First we saw the phalanx of helicopters, then the traffic break in front of the Bronco, then all kinds of fools pulling onto the freeway and parking, so they could hold up signs that said things like “We love you OJ” and “Go Juice.” After that, here came the Bronco itself. I believe OJ stopped at the Krispy Kreme in Gardena, where the 91 Freeway ends.
My friend and I were almost late to the concert, it took so long to get past the mess.
Perhaps could it be this guy, the “Crazed Caped Crusader”?
http://www.trutv.com/video/video-justice/crazed-caped-crusader.html
OJ was wearing a robe with a dragon on it?
I don’t think OJ ever stuck his leg out of the car either.
I’m LA News- thanks for posting this! It definitely wasn’t OJ (I remember OJ’s chase- crazy); I’ve sent Ellen’s clip to my sister and hopefully she’ll let me know if that’s the one.
And who in L.A. would not have remembered that it was OJ FREAKING SIMPSON? That can’t be the answer! Ellen’s link has got to be the one. That’s pretty fantastic.
@Sars if ONLY there had been a silk dragon robe involved in the OJ chase. I hope that’s the right video, Stephanie!
I’m LA News (the 1st Stephanie listed above- hi, other Stephanie). My sister says Ellen’s video is the one! She is SO happy right now. T Nation readers really are the best. I can’t wait to watch this when I get home tonight.
If the link Ellen posted isn’t the right one, then I REALLY want to see the one you were talking about. Because it would be even more amazing.
The OJ chase wasn’t interesting aside from it being OJ. He stayed in the car. And didn’t he just surrender at his house?
Wow…how was that guy not tazed in the parking lot?! I can’t believe the take-down didn’t happen until he reached the patio area of the donut shop. So they let this lunatic stroll into the store? Yowza. I also want to know how he kept the car rolling when his feet were outside the car? Brick-on-acclerator trick?
Well Damn!! I was so sure I knew it, but Ellen’s clip must be the one. And here I thought I got the jump on the Nation for once.
Wow. Thanks Nation! That crazy video totally made my day. :)
I don’t think I’ve *EVER* solved a TN Vine mystery before. And Jo, I’m with you – if that hadn’t been the right one, I would have wanted to see how much farther the crazy had been turned up.
So glad it was the right clip, LA News Stephanie!