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 Post subject: 10 years later....
PostPosted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 4:04 am 
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He's so close to finding the real killers. Anyday now I can feel it...

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Oh wow. I remember that day quite well. It was freshman year and I was in biology class and we were listening to the radio. Everyone was on their edge of their seat waiting for that verdict to come in. Once they announced it about half the class had smiles on their faces and the other half, including the teacher, looked stunned.

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i remember that when this whole thing happened, we had just started getting cnn and court tv with the cable. the bronco chase was the first car-chase i'd ever seen on the television.

my mom didn't work, and stayed home all day watching the trial on court tv. my sister and i would come home from school and we'd have to stay very quiet or else my mom would get mad. then, my dad would come home and they'd re-start the trial and my parents would sit and watch the whole thing. my house was constantly tuned to court tv and was very quiet for months.

i remember the day that the verdict was announced. it happened after i got home from school. i came home and my mom was on verdict watch. when they let him off, she turned off the tv, called my dad, turned the tv back on and started yelling at fred graham.


i just read an article the other day about o.j. signing autographs at a horror movie opening. the article made mention of the fact that he was ordered to pay $30-something million dollars to the families but that he hasn't paid a dime. that's pretty shitty, but they had a quote in the article that said something to the effect of "if they try to get the money, i'll sue them and they won't get any." i'll try to find it. it was pretty sad.

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I remember I was in junior high school and my friend and I were watching the car chase when we decided to walk to the store. As we walked through the neighboorhood, we could see that the chase was on every TV. And right there, the television took over the minds of Americans. Reality TV was born...

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Where were you when OJ ran? :lol:

I was in a bar on the Upper East side with my college roommate and our friend Ana, who had recently graduated and was going to be moving back to Spain. I think it might have been the last time I ever saw her. Anyway, we had gotten baked and went to see "Laser Floyd" at the Hayden Planetarium, and then walked over to this bar to watch the Knicks, who were playing Indiana in the Eastern Conference Finals.

The Knicks were playing great, up by 17 late in the third, when Tom Brokaw broke in with this helicopter video of a white Bronco slowly driving down the freeway with a half dozen cop cars in slow pursuit. I thought we were going to watch OJ blow his brains out right there on TV that night. No such luck. But we're watching this for 15 or 20 minutes, when Brokaw says, "For those of you who were watching the New York Knicks vs. Indiana Pacers basketball game, the score is now TIED at 84-84."

"WHAT THE FUCK?!? Put the game back on, fuck OJ!!" 25 people jumping up and down screaming at the television in a bar, it was great! Honestly, I can't even remember if we got to see the end of the game or not.

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Where were you when OJ ran? :lol:

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I was watching 20/20 on ABC and then they cut away to the car chase. I was hooked even though I was only 9.

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Shit I remember it was either Freshmen or Soph year in Speech. The speech teacher was easily one of the oldest meanist and worthless teacher in the school and she turned it on. It fascinated me more that we were watching it than the result.


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 Post subject: Re: 10 years later....
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jim wrote:
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He's so close to finding the real killers. Anyday now I can feel it...


He doesnt wear a glove when he golfs?


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 Post subject: Re: 10 years later....
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What exactly is the white dude doing? Is he THAT exited to be golfing with OJ?


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punkdavid wrote:
Where were you when OJ ran? :lol:

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walking in and out of the living room holding a small baby that screamed a lot. (this is the same baby that now attends PJ shows with me)


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I was at my staying at my grandparent's house when OJ ran.

I remember the verdict day. The teacher actually surveyed all of the students to see whether or not we thought he was guilty (I was in like 4th or fifth grade) and the teacher told us the verdict after lunch


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I was at Disneyland for the chase and in Spanish class for the verdict.

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